"But let us say he was not. What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this"*. All eyes were pointed to a poor black innocent boy who was accused killing three people. In the other side of the court, an old black woman sits and watches her grand son sadly. She might be the only person knows that her grand son cannot be a murder. But what makes she worry and upset is not losing her son; it is the thought of Jefferson being labeled a hog. She wants Jefferson to know that he is a man not a hog because it is the only way that he can find his freedom even in the moment of his death. " I want a man go to death, not a hog".
" Gentlemen of the jury, look at this- this- this boy. I almost said man, but I can't say man. Oh, sure, he has reached the age of twenty-one, when we
"You are a teacher?" Miss Emma is saying to Grant Wiggins, a teacher in the plantation. Tante Lou, Grant's aunt, is standing at the kitchen while Miss Emma is saying repeatedly to her "he don't have to do it". Aunt Lou says to Grant, " You go to that jail, and let him know that you are a man or you don't sleep here". " I don't know how to say how a man should die, I don't even know how a man should live". Grant is saying to his aunt. Grant has been a teacher in plantation for a while. Although he is born and grows up there, he is just waiting for the first chance to leave that place to somewhere else. He is fall in love with Vivian a married lady who her husband left her to somewhere that nobody knows. Grand is tired living in plantation, and Vivian is his only reason to stay there. " He is going to die anyway, why should we tell him you are a man?"
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