A Purpose In Life
When I was young and naïve, I think everyone was so generous and friendly. However, I was wrong in this society people are selfish and discriminate.in the act of being an adult I have learn not to trust anybody but youself and shortsighted. In this society that we are living in, yet we love to judge each other and not look deep inside them. I have learn my lesson by paying no mind to my surrounding. In this novel, A lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. The narrator is Grant Wiggins. He lives in Louisiana till he go to college. Jefferson was an honest young black man but he is in a wrong place at the wrong time. In this novel, it illustrates 3 main theme injustice, education, and poverty. The live of a black man in this era is cruel.Jefferson was the only person that are black in the court room. He got treated badly and unfairly accuse. He was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he did not do. Jefferson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He tag along with 2 other guy that are refuse to pay. The guy that he was with was shooting with the owner leave Jefferson alive. ‘When the old man and the other two robbers were all dead, this one—it proved the kind of animal he really was—stuffed the money into his pockets and celebrated the event by drinking over their still-bleeding …show more content…
Poverty hit him when he is in a place that he does not belong in. Miss Emma teach him not to steal but poverty hit him hard and he don’t even have a dime in him so he decide to take the money. He knew taking money was wrong. ‘His nannan had told him never to steal. He didn't want to steal. But he didn't have a solitary dime in his pocket.’ (Gaines 1.7) he know from right and wrong but he chose not to listen to Miss Emma lasson. Jefferson was poor that he don’t even have a lot of icecream to eat so in he talk to Grant and tell him to bring hime a whole gallon of ice cream for him to
When I was young and naïve, I think everyone was so generous and friendly. However, I was wrong in this society people are selfish and discriminate.in the act of being an adult I have learn not to trust anybody but youself and shortsighted. In this society that we are living in, yet we love to judge each other and not look deep inside them. I have learn my lesson by paying no mind to my surrounding. In this novel, A lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. The narrator is Grant Wiggins. He lives in Louisiana till he go to college. Jefferson was an honest young black man but he is in a wrong place at the wrong time. In this novel, it illustrates 3 main theme injustice, education, and poverty. The live of a black man in this era is cruel.Jefferson was the only person that are black in the court room. He got treated badly and unfairly accuse. He was convicted and sentenced to death for a crime he did not do. Jefferson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He tag along with 2 other guy that are refuse to pay. The guy that he was with was shooting with the owner leave Jefferson alive. ‘When the old man and the other two robbers were all dead, this one—it proved the kind of animal he really was—stuffed the money into his pockets and celebrated the event by drinking over their still-bleeding …show more content…
Poverty hit him when he is in a place that he does not belong in. Miss Emma teach him not to steal but poverty hit him hard and he don’t even have a dime in him so he decide to take the money. He knew taking money was wrong. ‘His nannan had told him never to steal. He didn't want to steal. But he didn't have a solitary dime in his pocket.’ (Gaines 1.7) he know from right and wrong but he chose not to listen to Miss Emma lasson. Jefferson was poor that he don’t even have a lot of icecream to eat so in he talk to Grant and tell him to bring hime a whole gallon of ice cream for him to