A Lesson Before Dying - CliffsNotes.
A list of all the characters in A Lesson Before Dying. The A Lesson Before Dying characters covered include: Grant Wiggins, Jefferson, Tante Lou, Miss Emma, Reverend Ambrose, Vivian, Matthew Antoine, Sheriff Guidry, Paul, Henri Pichot, Mr. Joseph Morgan.Jefferson does change with Grant’s help, however. He begins to believe in his own worth, and he realizes his life and manner of dying might have symbolic importance for his community. Gaines casts Jefferson as a Christ figure, a man to whom people look for their own salvation.Jefferson Two Bad Apples. Jefferson is a kid with really bad luck. He skips a hunting trip one day and ends up with two bad-news guys at a liquor store instead. They try to rob the place, the owner turns the gun on them, and Jefferson is the only one left standing.
The local schoolteacher, narrator, and the protagonist of A Lesson Before Dying, Grant Wiggins is initially reluctant when Miss Emma Glenn and Tante Lou give him the task of talking to Jefferson before he’s executed. Grant is a college-educated black man, but he’s returned to his childhood home, where his ancestors were slaves, to teach at the segregated primary school where he was once a.Although it is Jefferson's story, it is narrated by Grant, with the exception of Chapter 29, in which Jefferson is finally able to tell his story in his own voice, through his diary. And although Grant has taken on the monumental task of making Jefferson a man, as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that Grant's fate is inextricably bound to.
This lesson offers a character analysis of Jefferson, the main protagonist in Ernest Gaines' 1993 novel, 'A Lesson Before Dying'. Jefferson is executed for a crime that he never committed.
