You have now completed your first literaure circle and read 1/3 of the book. What challenges have you read about so far? What challenges or conflicts do you predict will happen? How do you think the character/s will react to the challenge?
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so far, there have been many challenges in A Lesson Before Dying. one of the main challenges is going to visit Jefferson. Although Grant Wiggins and Miss Emma have been visitig Jefferson every week, he is still very stubborn and will not eat Miss Emma's food or talk to them like human beings. Grant and Miss Emma keep coming though, and hope that eventually Jefferson will start acting civil. I predict that Jefferson will keep acting this way, but i think that Grant Wiggins acts very well around Jefferson, but Miss Emma has a harder time around him. All in all, I think that this tough obstacle will be overcome in the long run.
ReplyDeleteThe challenges I've read so far in A Lesson Before Dying are how Miss.Emma goes through having the boy she rised about to get put in the electic chair. Miss Emma has done very well so far looking on the brightside of the situation. She really wants Grant Wiggins, the teacher to teach Jefferson a lesson before dying. A challenge I think is in the future for this book is tht Jefferson will refuse to be taught by Grant. He is probably very upset about dying and will not want to be taught. I think Miss Emma will force Jefferson to be taught. Do you think Jefferson lost the case because of the color of his skin?
ReplyDeleteThe challenges I read so far would be about how that guy gets the ellectric chair and is about to die. I think that he will somehow get out of the sentencing and the story will end nicely... I think the charactors will be like super happy that he's not going to die.
ReplyDeletei have read about a poor black boy in his teens, who is bieng charged with felony murder. he did not commit this crime. he simply walked into the drug store to get some mints and walked in only to see the owner dead. SAD FACE. right now the judge is starting to make him believe that he is a monter. i predict he wont be charged. hopefully he wont give in to the judge.
ReplyDeleteI think that the main challenge in the book is the character of Jefferson. When Grant and Miss Emma and his aunt visit Jefferson in jail, he is very very stubborn and barely talks to anyone and refuses to eat the good that he gets. The main challenge that I predict that will happen in the book later is making Jefferson think good of himself and have some dignity. I think that Jefferson will at first refuse, but soon will cooperate. I think that Jefferson will be happy that he has class and Grant and his aunt and Miss Emma will be happy for him.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: why do you think that Jefferson is not talking or being nice to anyone?
In the book, a school teacher named Grant is asked to visit a man in prison who was wrongly accused of murder. A woman named Miss Emma asked him to turn the man, Jefferson, from a hog to a man before he gets electrocuted. I. Assume that Grant will either turn the prisoner into a man, get the prisoner released, or have some weird epiphany along the way. Grant will break down probably.
ReplyDeleteMy question is: what good will it do to turn him into a man is he will die anyway?
There are many challenges in the story. For starters Jefferson was wrongly convicted for murdering a liquor store owner. Also grant is less than happy about working with Jefferson. I think that Jefferson will die a man and will make everyone proud for going out with pride instead of dying shamefully. Do you think thatjefferson will really die?
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ReplyDeleteI think that the biggest challenge is that Jefferson thinks that he's a hog. I would say that it's that he's being executed or that he won't talk very much, but since that's already happening, he should at least have some self respect. Grant is going to have a very tough time trying to get him to talk and act like a human. Both Grant and Jefferson have tempers, so it may get interesting. Grant will probably
end up getting very angry at some point.
Question:Why is Jefferson being so stubborn when he knows that Miss Emma really does care about him?
Thus far into "A Lesson Before Dying", readers have been told of many challenges and building conflicts between numerous characters. However, one of the more major problems has been Jefferson's blank reaction to any visits by Miss Emma and Mr. Grant Higgins. Though they continue to visit him often, Jefferson continues to treat them as if he hasn't ever even known them.
ReplyDeleteI predict that Mr. Higgins and Miss Emma shall continue to visit, and eventually Jefferson will "spill the beans!" to Mr. Higgins. He will come around to trusting Mr. Higgins, at which point they will be able to prove him innocent.
Question: Why won't Jefferson talk to them when they continue to show how much they care about him??
so far jefferson has been silent to evreyone. grant does not want to go see him.
ReplyDeletewhy will jefferson not talk?
i think that one chalenge is visiting jefferson. i thinkthat eventually grant will influence the boy but for a while he will just keep staring at the wall . i think that miss emma will get very very depressed that her boy wont talk to her one chalenge i will predict that will happen is that some thing will happen between grant and vivian. i think that ifthat happens grant wont try with jefferson any more
ReplyDeletequestion: why does jefferson noy care about being a man?
there has been many challenges in a Lesson Before Dying one of them is Jefferson is being aqused for a muder that he didnt do if he is found guilty he will be sentenced to the deth cahir. i dont think he will be found guilty and it will. be a happy ending.
ReplyDeleteDuring A Lesson Before Dying, the characters face many challenges. One of them is that Grant Wiggins does not want to have to teach Jefferson to be a man. Grant is also tired of all the commitment he feels towards his job and town. Jefferson also is facing the problem of being killed by the electric chair after being found guilty of first degree murder. Finally, Miss Emma may have to see her son die a hog instead of a man as she wants him to. I think that Grant will end up teaching Jefferson to be a man and that Miss Emma's wish will come true. I believe that this will in turn make Grant want to stay. Though sadly, i believe that Jefferson will die.
ReplyDeleteQ: Why does Grant not want to help Jefferson?
I think that there are three main conflicts so far in A Lesson Before Dying. One of them, as many people have already mentioned, is that of Jefferson. Mr. Wiggins is supposed to help Jefferson out and make him know that he is a man, not a hog, but so far Jefferson has not been very helpful in learning; he has an attitude that suggests he doesn't care about what's being said to him. However, I think that Jefferson will eventually break down and be more helpful. Another conflict in A Lesson Before Dying is that of Vivian and Mr. Wiggins. Vivian is in the middle of getting a divorce, and she loves Mr. Wiggins as he loves her. Mr. Wiggins just wants to go away with her and not deal with all of the problems he is having, but that's probably not going to happen anytime soon. I don't think that they will end up going away together, but I do believe that Vivian may be an important character for the rest of the book. The final conflict and a main theme of the book that I have found so far is that of racism and descrimanation. I think it must be hard being an african-american person back then, because half of your life you are just being ignored, and you are not treated as well as white people.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that it is right for Mr. Wiggins to so thoroughly hurt his students? Or do you think it's just a mark of the times?
I am reading the book a lesson before dying wich is very interesting. It takes place during segregation and the main conflict in the hostory is probably racism between Blacks and Whites. During this time period Whites were supposedly "smarter" than Blacks. White Americans went to Africa and brought back slaves. In a Lesson Befor Dying Mr. Wiggins talks about discrimination, how whites had all the priviledges including the best schools, supplies, and rights. Blacks worked on the White people's plantations and when a crime happened Blacks never had fair trials and they were treated lile animals.In this story Mr. Wiggins tries to convince a prisoner name Jefferson that he is not a hog and that he is as smart as the White people. Will Jefferson believe him and die as a man...
ReplyDeleteOne of the main conflicts in the book was segregation. This conflict is still occuring in the book, it hasn't changed. The white poeple continue to think they are better and smarter then the African American people. They face the challenges by just continueing with life and not trying to let things bother them. In the book I can really relate to Miss Emma because you might be trying to help someone, but they ignore you and don't listen. Also because your so aggrivated you might do some things you regret. That happened to Miss Emma all throughout the book.
ReplyDeleteHe over came his challgen because he wanted to be a surf men crew but he could not because his father wanted him to be fisher men so insted of doing that he became a doctor
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