Author: Ernest J. Gaines
Translator: Se-mi Kim
Publisher: Munyechulpansa
Hardcover | 382 pages | 195*136mm
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About This Book
Oprah Book Club Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in
1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair
for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad;
though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the
trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict
or the penalty.
"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did
not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be..."
So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful
exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying.
If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an
iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social
convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny
plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is
teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after
the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African
Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races
are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career
he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and
angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his
girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is
convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant
for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.
As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he
must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is
not always expressed through action--sometimes the simple act of
resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable
characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for
a lifetime.
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