Jefferson Ernest J. Gaines Analysis

This book written by Ernest J. Gaines is about a young man Jefferson, Who is wrongfully accused and convicted of a crime and is sentenced to death by electrocution. Jefferson's godmother has excepted that he is going to die but she wants him to prove to the white people that he is a man before that. So the mother enlists help from a black teacher at the local plantation school named Grant Wiggins to go into the jail and turn him into a man. This story is about a young black man named Jefferson, he was treated unfairly he was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. Then there is Grant he is a black man who has a college degree, and because of that degree his grandmother sent him to the jail to see if he can help Jefferson realize that he is a man not an animal. …show more content…
But eventually Jefferson starts to except all that is going on and is willing to learn so he can prove to the white people he is a educated man not a hog. Jefferson didn’t feel like a man because he had never been treated like one he says. The conflict in this story is, grant is not confident in his ability to make a man out of Jefferson. Everyone is putting pressure on him and it is making him doubt his knowledge. Jefferson also deals with frustration because the way he is treated by white people throughout town. He feels as though he needs to dumb his self down when speaking with certain white people and he does not appreciate that. In the book we see that Grant attempts to resolve the struggle within him by helping