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Mind Map by Julia Wanger, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Julia Wanger
over 7 years ago
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Summer Reading: A Lesson Before Dying
- Symbolism
- Jefferson
- Jefferson becomes the change in a system
that Grant saw as permanently broken
- Teaches Grant that small victories
can make a difference
- Teaches Grant that small victories
can make a difference
- Jefferson becomes the change in a system
that Grant saw as permanently broken
- The notebook
- Acceptance
by Jefferson
of guidance
- Does he believe in making the
most of his remaining time?
- Does he believe in making the
most of his remaining time?
- Grant's shift in desire to teach Jefferson
- Jefferson's reconnection with his humanity
- Acceptance
by Jefferson
of guidance
- The chair
- Used to show different people's reactions to the unjust system
- Used to show different people's reactions to the unjust system
- Jefferson
- Jefferson
- Convicted of murder and sentenced
to death by electrocution
- Characters Involved
- Brother and Bear
- The true
transgressors
- Killed Gropé after
attempting to rob
his store
- Killed Gropé after
attempting to rob
his store
- Both killed by Gropé
- The true
transgressors
- Alcee Gropé
- Old storekeeper
- His liquor store becomes
the scene of the
crime
- His liquor store becomes
the scene of the
crime
- Killed by Brother and Bear
- Seemed
to know
Jefferson
- Asked about Jefferson's nannan
(Emma) almost immediately
- Asked about Jefferson's nannan
(Emma) almost immediately
- Old storekeeper
- Brother and Bear
- Characters Involved
- Relationships
- Miss Emma (Glenn)
- Jefferson's godmother
- Jefferson calls her
his "nannan"
- Jefferson calls her
his "nannan"
- Characteristics
- Physical Characteristics
- Average
height
(5'4/5'5)
- Overweight
- Average
height
(5'4/5'5)
- Deeply religious
- Obsessed with the
idea of Jefferson
dying "like a man"
- Heard Jefferson's
lawyer call him a
hog
- Heard Jefferson's
lawyer call him a
hog
- Physical Characteristics
- Jefferson's godmother
- Miss Emma (Glenn)
- Convicted of murder and sentenced
to death by electrocution
- Grant Wiggins
- Relationships
- Tante Lou
- Vivian
- Tante Lou
- Characteristics
- Cynic
- Getting a real education
clarified to him just how
uneducated the rest
of his community was
- Sees only two options:
surrenduring to the system,
or escaping the system
without looking back
- No one beats
the system; it
is impossible
to stand up to
it and create
change
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- No one beats
the system; it
is impossible
to stand up to
it and create
change
- Sees only two options:
surrenduring to the system,
or escaping the system
without looking back
- Getting a real education
clarified to him just how
uneducated the rest
of his community was
- Cynic
- Relationships
- Setting
- Late 1940s
- Small Cajun Community
- Louisianna
- Louisianna
- Late 1940s
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