A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines.pptm - A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines Tytiana Thompson Born January 15 1933 and died November 5

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines Tytiana Thompson

About Ernest J Gaines  Born January 15, 1933 and died November 5, 2019  His work reflects the African American experience and the tradition of his Louisiana childhood  His noble work was A lesson Before Dying,The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,and A Gathering of Old Men  His best work was The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman  He got awards and honors at National Medal of Arts in 2013 and National Book Critics’ Circle Award in 1994  He graduated from San Francisco State College in 1956 and attended graduate school at Stanford University  He taught or was writer-in-residence at several schools such as Denison and Stanford universities

The Setting of A Lesson Before Dying The novel is set in the fictional community of Bayonne, Louisiana, in the pre-civil Right South

Characters  Grant Wiggins: narrator of the novel  Jefferson: a sincere, sensitive, young black man of below-average intelligence  Tante Lou: Grants aunt and a deeply religious woman  Miss Emma: Jefferson’s godmother  Reverend Ambrose: pastor of the plantation church  Vivian: Grant’s girlfriend  Matthew Antoine: Grant’s primary school teacher  Sheriff Guidry: sheriff of Bayonne County  Paul: the sheriff’s deputy at Bayonne jail  Henri Pichot: owns the plantation where Grant Spent his childhood  Mr. Joseph Morgan: white superintendent of school

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