Week 1
My first impression of "Lesson Before Dying," is that the novel will be good because I enjoy reading stories. On Chapter 7, two weeks before visiting Jefferson. Grant is preparing for the school inspection. All the kids are well dress and clean, classroom procedure are in order, and Grant is ready. They have been preparing for the past three days and there have been many false alarm. A kid was told to keep watch from a certain direction. There have been many false alarm,but finally the actual inspector came. It was Doctor Joseph from the previous year. He was overweight and short man. So he had problem exiting the vehicle and walking up the three stairs. The classroom was called to stand, shoulder back by an upperclassmen. When Dr. Joseph sat at the offered teacher desk and Grant sat down at a bench, everyone took their seat. Dr. Joesph call on each individual from each grade. A girl was called to be check with her hands, a boy, that should stay home, made a bad impression by saying "Yezar," and saying the pledge wrong, and everyone else was okay. When Dr. Joseph left, Grant explained how the textbook are being shared, missing pages, less supplies and how Grant have to end up using his own money. Dr. Joseph explained how the other white school are dealing with the same thing. After he left, Grant realize he made thing's from good to bad mood with the inspector.
Week 2
Title and author:"A Lesson Before Dying." By:Earnest J. GainesProtagonist: Jefferson, Miss Emma, Tante Lou, Henri Pichot, Inez Lane, Mr. Lois, Vivian, Joe Claiborne,Mr. Farrell, Sheriff Guidry
Major Protagonist: Jefferson and Grant
Point of View:1st point of view,when it was talking about Grant from chapter 2 through 10.
Setting of time and place:small Cajun community in the late 1940. Bayonne.
tone: sad,strong, and hateful.
Irony:Jefferson being blame for the crime that he didn't commit. How the inspector saying that all the school are experience the same thing with school funding.
Symbols:Bond,how Miss Emma won't give up on Jefferson and what she believe is the right thing to do.Hardship,Grant dealing and managing with family and school during hard times. Jefferson was called a "Hog," because they infer him as a animal, not a human.
Theme: How a family struggle to make a family member be a man before he die.
Major Protagonist: Jefferson and Grant
Point of View:1st point of view,when it was talking about Grant from chapter 2 through 10.
Setting of time and place:small Cajun community in the late 1940. Bayonne.
tone: sad,strong, and hateful.
Irony:Jefferson being blame for the crime that he didn't commit. How the inspector saying that all the school are experience the same thing with school funding.
Symbols:Bond,how Miss Emma won't give up on Jefferson and what she believe is the right thing to do.Hardship,Grant dealing and managing with family and school during hard times. Jefferson was called a "Hog," because they infer him as a animal, not a human.
Theme: How a family struggle to make a family member be a man before he die.
Week 2-Day 2
A Lesson Before Dying
A HOG or MAN?
Wrong Place,Wrong time
Jefferson Help Grant Learn
Dying is a feeling when someone experiencing depression or negative thoughts or actions. At times I think negative and going through tough times, but what keep me going is the people that is important to me. If I give up now, everything that I accomplish would be for nothing. I would rather live and do what's right, then do the opposite.
A man is a person that take his responsibility very seriously. A man that act with wisdom and courage. A man that will put food on the table for his love ones. What does it take to be a man? Dedication, commitment, good character, and responsibility.
Time is something that is precious to each and every individual. In the beginning of my senior year, I had been putting more time in my school work then I ever had, because this is the year when everything counts. What are you going to do after high school, are you going to college, or are you going to work at McDonald all your life? I am doing okay with school, but I need to look at what college I would like to attend. I like J.R.O.T.C., doing community service, or being more involve, but whats the best for me is important then everything.
Learning is something everyone is doing everyday. In school, at work, at a restaurant, everywhere. In order to be consider educated, a person would need to learn how to read and write. If you can't learn or willing to do so. It would be harder to learn everything no matter how hard you try. Learning is a life long experience.
A HOG or MAN?
Wrong Place,Wrong time
Jefferson Help Grant Learn
Dying is a feeling when someone experiencing depression or negative thoughts or actions. At times I think negative and going through tough times, but what keep me going is the people that is important to me. If I give up now, everything that I accomplish would be for nothing. I would rather live and do what's right, then do the opposite.
A man is a person that take his responsibility very seriously. A man that act with wisdom and courage. A man that will put food on the table for his love ones. What does it take to be a man? Dedication, commitment, good character, and responsibility.
Time is something that is precious to each and every individual. In the beginning of my senior year, I had been putting more time in my school work then I ever had, because this is the year when everything counts. What are you going to do after high school, are you going to college, or are you going to work at McDonald all your life? I am doing okay with school, but I need to look at what college I would like to attend. I like J.R.O.T.C., doing community service, or being more involve, but whats the best for me is important then everything.
Learning is something everyone is doing everyday. In school, at work, at a restaurant, everywhere. In order to be consider educated, a person would need to learn how to read and write. If you can't learn or willing to do so. It would be harder to learn everything no matter how hard you try. Learning is a life long experience.
WEEK 4-THURSDAY.OCTOBER.2012
Why the image backfired as a defense argument? The image made people realize that Jefferson couldn't plan anything. Especially not robbing, because Jefferson wasn't thinking when t happen. When he was the only one left, he didn't even bother to runaway from the crime scene. When the other attorney infer him as a hog, people realize that he can possibly did it. What was the attorney’s purpose in using that characterization? The attorney's was using that characterization because at that time, racism, segregation, and so on is still going on then. American think they are more superior then African-American, so they think they had the right to say and do whatever they want. So the attorney just finding ways to blame a African-American just because he is black. Why did the remark affect Miss Emma, Tante Lou, and Jefferson so deeply? Even though Jefferson suggests it, why won’t Miss Emma bring him corn to eat? Miss Emma is the one that raise Jefferson ,so a comment like that would really hurt. Like people would start talking bad thing's about the family, affect friends relationships, and community. Miss Emma is held responsible for Jefferson well being. Tante Lou is somewhat responsible for Jefferson well being because she is consider Miss Emma friend and a family member. Tante is Miss Emma friend, so she feel's responsible about Jefferson as well. Jefferson is a victim, accuse of something he didn't do, and that made him think negative about himself. Since American call him a hog, he starts thinking he is one, because the fact that he is look up in a cell like an animal. Miss Emma didn't bring the corn to eat because, she didn't want Jefferson to think that way. She really cares for him and she knows what should be done and what shouldn't be done.
OCTOBER.31.2012
My name is John Nguyen and I am eighteen year's old. My year's in high school in my opinion is very experiencing. Besides learning new subject's, I learn how I can be better person by helping others and giving back to the community. I don't really have a favorite subject because either way I have to learn it to pass the class. I really J.R.O.T.C. because it gives me a reason to wake up so early in the morning. it gives me a reason to do my best in school and outside of school. I am not that athletic, but I am a smart intelligent person and a hard worker. At times I would ask myself, "Why am I here, Why do I do it, and what is there to prove?" It simple, I did it because it the right thing to do and not a lot of people would even bother to do it. Classwork, homework, and actually doing the work helps you in a way that you wouldn't even bother thinking about it. I did it because I have a reasonable purpose and at times it ends mostly good, and sometimes it gets bad. I would just always "Keep Moving Forward."
A novel or play that I read recently is " A Lesson Before Dying," by Ernest J. Gaines. The story took place in the 1940's, when a young man name Jefferson was accused of a crime he did not committed. Miss Emma, who is the aunt that is currently taking care of him, feels that she is responsible for Jefferson well being. Her desire is that when Jefferson is sitting in that chair, he would be a man. What disturb Miss Emma is that the lawyer in the courtroom infer Jefferson as a hog. So what Miss Emma did is that she ask Grant, a professor that just got out of university, to help Jefferson be a man. So the family had to go a lot of thing's so that Grant can visit Jefferson. In the end, Jefferson did become a man. A man that did made a difference. A difference that can change everyone point of view about one another. Grant did made a difference and he in the end become a educated man, even though he did went to a university, theirs still thing he have yet to learn.
A character that I choose from the novel, whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences is Grant Wiggins. Grant purpose in the story is to make thing's right. From that person sitting in prison to the people in the outside. Grant didn't know if he can do it. His mind was telling him to just give up and runaway from all of this. He was trying to runaway, but what keeping him there is the people. Vivian, Auntie's, love ones, pretty much everyone that he cares about. Runaway won't solve the problem, but facing and dealing with it can make a huge difference. Another reason why is because Jefferson seem so hopeless. He refuses to talk, thinking negative, and acting like he is in another world. Also, people with segregation, no equal of right's, violence, and such as is making Grant angry and sad. Grant wanted to runaway, but in the end he learn what really important.
The two compelling forces that I identify is Vivian and Jefferson. Vivian is a reason why Grant didn't want to leave. At times he would ask her, but she won't because of the children and her commitment to the school. Grant really love Vivian and he would pick her over helping Jefferson any day, but Grant had a request and a responsibility that he must do. At times it would get hard and he would give up, but he kept going and it was worth it. Jefferson in the end became a man and so is Grant. Jefferson is one of the two compelling force because he at first refuse to acknowledge that he is a human being, not a hog. Jefferson refuses to communicate, eat, and cooperating with the people that really cares about him. Grant helps him by talking to him and giving what he requested. Jefferson is another reason why Grant can't runaway. It something that someone like Grant should be able to do to Miss Emma.
My conclusion is that the story is brilliantly written, very descriptive in a way that gets people reading, and discussing. "this majestic moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of out lives," Chicago Tribune. Grant act made Jefferson a man, a man that did made a difference in that very courtroom. People then would probably think differently from one another in a way that people can live equally.
A novel or play that I read recently is " A Lesson Before Dying," by Ernest J. Gaines. The story took place in the 1940's, when a young man name Jefferson was accused of a crime he did not committed. Miss Emma, who is the aunt that is currently taking care of him, feels that she is responsible for Jefferson well being. Her desire is that when Jefferson is sitting in that chair, he would be a man. What disturb Miss Emma is that the lawyer in the courtroom infer Jefferson as a hog. So what Miss Emma did is that she ask Grant, a professor that just got out of university, to help Jefferson be a man. So the family had to go a lot of thing's so that Grant can visit Jefferson. In the end, Jefferson did become a man. A man that did made a difference. A difference that can change everyone point of view about one another. Grant did made a difference and he in the end become a educated man, even though he did went to a university, theirs still thing he have yet to learn.
A character that I choose from the novel, whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by two compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences is Grant Wiggins. Grant purpose in the story is to make thing's right. From that person sitting in prison to the people in the outside. Grant didn't know if he can do it. His mind was telling him to just give up and runaway from all of this. He was trying to runaway, but what keeping him there is the people. Vivian, Auntie's, love ones, pretty much everyone that he cares about. Runaway won't solve the problem, but facing and dealing with it can make a huge difference. Another reason why is because Jefferson seem so hopeless. He refuses to talk, thinking negative, and acting like he is in another world. Also, people with segregation, no equal of right's, violence, and such as is making Grant angry and sad. Grant wanted to runaway, but in the end he learn what really important.
The two compelling forces that I identify is Vivian and Jefferson. Vivian is a reason why Grant didn't want to leave. At times he would ask her, but she won't because of the children and her commitment to the school. Grant really love Vivian and he would pick her over helping Jefferson any day, but Grant had a request and a responsibility that he must do. At times it would get hard and he would give up, but he kept going and it was worth it. Jefferson in the end became a man and so is Grant. Jefferson is one of the two compelling force because he at first refuse to acknowledge that he is a human being, not a hog. Jefferson refuses to communicate, eat, and cooperating with the people that really cares about him. Grant helps him by talking to him and giving what he requested. Jefferson is another reason why Grant can't runaway. It something that someone like Grant should be able to do to Miss Emma.
My conclusion is that the story is brilliantly written, very descriptive in a way that gets people reading, and discussing. "this majestic moving novel is an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of out lives," Chicago Tribune. Grant act made Jefferson a man, a man that did made a difference in that very courtroom. People then would probably think differently from one another in a way that people can live equally.