Ruby on Rails

Man sees his own life in the eyes of the dying. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Mr. Ernest Gaines novel, A Lesson before Dying. The narrator, Grant Wiggins, battles the conflict within himself while trying to motivate a death row inmate. Using dialogue within this character driven story, Mr. Gaines highlights an old struggle between a man wanting to do good in the world, and at the same time feeling inferior for the task. There are three modes of conversation I wish to utilize to prove…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…