Character Analysis: A Lesson Before Dying

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Imagine only having months to live. How would you react. Would you be able to accept it. Sadly, a character was sentenced to death for something he didn't do. In the novel A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines describes what the character has to go through before he dies. One lesson learned in this novel is how to become a man; Jefferson learns this by staying strong, communicating, and sustaining happiness.

Jefferson Learns to become a man by showing strength. Jefferson is a man because someone told him that he is a man. When Grant and Jefferson are conversing Grant said, “you’re more a man than I am, Jefferson” (225). This proves that Jefferson is a man because someone said that he is more a man than the person who said it. I feel it would

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