Lesson Before Dying Reflection

My mommy and brother both recommended that I read A Lesson before Dying. Ernest J. Gaines writes closely an innocent, young mordant man who is wrongly convicted of run into and sentenced to death in Bayonne, lah in the 1940s. But, this book is non just about in goodice; it is about what a person discount image and gain through hardship. In A Lesson beforehand Dying, Gaines uses a descriptive genius to involve you in the postulate to gain dignity and ascension above expectations in a really frantic and base way.\nGaines has a very descriptive and detailed writing style. For example, on the very first pageboy of the book he describes his aunty and godmother in the courtroom scene. His godmother became as immobile as a great stone or as one of our oak or cypress stumps... she just sat there pure(a) at the boys clean cropped drift  (3). I could picture his godmother and aunt sitting there, and this image has stayed with me. I also have a clear recollection of the era when the narrator, Grant Wiggins, is speaking to his teacher, Matthew Antoine. As Matthew tells his students to flee from the oppressive grey town, he gives images of black people having no place to run... seek work  (63). According to Antoine the simply thing that Grant could learn from him was to escape. Through these images and the negotiation that fol secondarys, we ar pulled in to the emotion of hopelessness. The closing image that shows the quality of Gaines descriptive style is when Grant prays with his students at the time of Jeffersons execution (250). As we listen to Grants inner dialogue we feel the tremendous spillage of his friend and student. The last tether words of the book be I was crying  (256). It is unacceptable not to get emotional when reading the last chapter of this book.\n up to now though the text is very emotional about the sleaziness towards blacks, the book is really about gaining dignity and low expectations. The low expectations a re first shown in the courtroom when the defe...