the electric chair as this'' (8), that he starts seeing himself as an animal. The hog label has had a strange impact on him which alters his personality and makes him believe that "Just do the best you can. But it won't matter" (66) because eventually something will happen to "make you the nigger you were born to be" (65). Jefferson's friendship with a schoolteacher Grant Wiggins teaches him about responsibility to community and human dignity as he explains "`No matter how bad off we are ... we still owe something'" (p. 139). Wiggins teaches Jefferson about being a hero and feels that it's only the one who shows strength in adversity who can qualify as a her

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