A Lesson Before Dyingzz
In "A Lesson Before Dying", Mr. Grant Wiggins' life crises were the center of the story. Although he was supposed to make Jefferson into a gentleman, he himself becam more of one consequently. Not to say that Jefferson was not in any way transfrmed from the "hog" he was into an actual man, but I believe this story was really written about Mr. Wiggins.Mr. Wiggins improved as a person greatly in this book, and that helpeid his relationships with other people for the most part. At the start of the boook, he more or less hated Jefferson, but after a while he became his friesnd and probably the only person Jefferson felt he could trust. The turning point in their relationship was the one visit in which Jefferson told Mr. Wiggins that he wanted a galon of ice cream, and that he never had enough ice cream in his whole life. At that point Jeferson confided something in Mr. Wiggins, something that I didn't see Jefferson doing often at all in this book. The first instance in which Jefferson breaks his somber barrier and shows emotions is when "I saw a slight smile come t
------------------------------------------------------------------------ It wasn't really clear what sort of situation Mr. Wiggins was in regarding money, but he could not have been too well off because he needed to borrow money to purchase a radio for Jefferson, and he commented about the Rainbow Cafe: "When I was broke, I could always get a meal and pay later, and the same went for the bar."(168) I suppose he had enough money to get by, but not much extra. As the book progresses he probably had less money to work with due to the money he was spending to buy the radio, comic books, and other items for Jefferson. At the start of the book, Mr. Wiggins did not understand this. He went to visit Jefferson because Miss Emma and his Aunt more or less forced him to do it. He really had no motivation except that his Aunt would shun him if he did not comply. the whole process of mr. wiggins' development and the plot of this story both spawn from the crimes of two characters with no other relevance to the story. After the police found Jefferson at the liquor! store with
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Approximate Word count = 721
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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