Lesson Before Dying Themes

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Can you teach a boy to be a man before a deadline? Well Jefferson, does and he succeeds.Throughout Ernest J. Gaines's fiction novel, A Lesson Before Dying has used the chair as an symbol that plays an important role in the overall theme.
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, a fiction novel that is placed in Bayonne, Louisiana in the 1940s, that consists of two young African American male characters Jefferson, and Grant Wiggins. Jefferson who is a young African American who’s not educated and a young male teacher, Grant Wiggins who both grew up in the same community. The main difference between them are that one’s a free man and the other is not. Jefferson was convicted of the robbery and murder in the first degree, he was sentenced to