Everyone has a responsibility in this world. No matter the weight of the task, responsibilities hold a big burden on people's lives. Responsibilities to families and ourselves are able to control certain emotions. This is perceived by the reader in Ernest Gaines in the novel, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines. He tells the story of Grant, an educated black man in Louisiana who is told that he needs to help an uneducated black man Jefferson, who was wrongly accused of white man's murder. Miss
This study brings together two writers who are usually not thought of in the same context. Hemingway is typically discussed under the mantle of modernism and ranks as one of the great American short story writers and novelists, whereas Ernest Gaines is usually discussed under the category of African American and/or Southern literature. It is my purpose to demonstrate how the two writers can be read and taught together, as they are linked by many common themes and stylistic elements. However, their
problem in the 1940’s. Racism and segregation of colored and whites is a current problem that has not yet been completely solved. In the novel A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, the setting is based on racism and segregation of African Americans in Louisiana during the time of the Jim Crow Laws in the 1940’s. Throughout the novel A Lesson Before Dying the whites showed very little respect for the blacks. For example, the blacks had to go to the basement for water or even to go to the bathroom