Lesson Before Dying (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Ernest J. Gaines, Sparknotes Editors

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  • Pub. Date: August 2003
  • 72pp
  • Sales Rank: 28,760
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    • Pub. Date: August 2003
    • Publisher: Spark Publishing
    • Format: Paperback, 72pp
    • Sales Rank: 28,760

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    What do you get when a group of Harvard Students creates study guides for the 21st century? Better grades. Not long ago our writers were acing their classes. Now they're loading SparkNotes with concise critical analysis that won't yellow with age. With SparkNotes you'll have an easier time understanding and enjoying great works of literature. SparkNotes -- the smarter, better, faster way to an "A."

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    October 20, 2004: I really liked reading 'A Lesson Before Dying' by Ernest J. Gaines. The characters seemed like people that you already know. I particularly liked the way Mr. Gaines pointed out the analogies between Jefferson and God. This book is very emotional and it helps if you can discuss it with another person. I believe that reading this book can help us all to be better people.

    A Lesson Before Dying (SparkNotes Literature Guide)by Anonymous

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    February 18, 2004: While reading A Lesson Before Dying, I thought that prejudice was just a thing of the past. After reading the book I started to think that in some ways America is the same as in the 'Jim Crow Era'. I do not understand how or why these people had to go through such pain and agony just to survive the daily life. Gaines really gives you the feeling that you are really in Louisiana in the late 1940's. Some of the things that went on I would never had thought about until I read the book. It is as though he really has meaning behind this story. Although this is a trying time not only for the accused, but for everyone involved with him. To some the learning process began just as everything had fallen apart;meanwhile, to others it had opened their eyes to a whole new world. This is a very good book and I would reccommend it to anyone who wanted to know just how blacks were treated in the south before the Civil Rights Movement.