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This paper compares and contrasts Wiggins and Jefferson in Ernest Gaine's novel A Lesson Before Dying. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the 1940s. These were laws that pretty much said that if a Black person was at the scene of a crime, he or she could automatically be considered "guilty." The
laws also said that no Black person should be allowed to reach his or her potential. The laws did not come out and say these things, but it was implied.
A Lesson Before Dying outlines these laws in the context of two men; one who is sentenced to death because of a
murder he did not commit and the other who is sentenced to a narrow survival because of the skin in which he was born and the area in which he
resides. Although the two men were different - one was a petty criminal and convicted murderer and the other an educated
professional - both shared traits in common that kept them prisoner not only by the Jim Crow laws by which they were bound, but by their own views of themselves
and their situations. At the end of the novel, both men found their release and their path to manhood and courage. The
story itself outlines the plight of Blacks in the South during the 1940s. In this book, which takes place in a rural Cajun backwater of Louisiana, Jefferson, a Black man,
is in jail awaiting execution for a murder he didnt commit - he was basically in the wrong place at the wrong time as a lookout man for a robbery.
Although he was an innocent bystander, Jefferson is still condemned to die for the murder, despite the efforts of his defense attorney to characterize Jefferson as an animal - a
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