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table of contents
  1. A Lesson Before Dying
  2. Introduction To The Novel
  3. Transcriptions
    1. Opening Passage
    2. Grant Introduces Miss Emma
    3. Grant Chats with Inez in Pichot's Kitchen
    4. Grant's Lesson on Being a Hero
    5. Grant's Lesson on Being Like Scrap Wood
    6. Grant Argues with Reverend Ambrose
    7. Reverend Ambrose Retorts
    8. Jefferson's Monologue During Last Visit with Grant
    9. Grant and Jefferson's Final Visit
    10. Jefferson Begins His Diary
    11. Jefferson Ponders the Afterlife and Love
    12. Jefferson Describes Children's Visit
    13. Truck Delivers the Electric Chair
    14. Grant Notices the Butterfly
    15. Grant and Paul Discuss Jefferson
  4. Keywords
    1. Belief
    2. Capital Punishment
    3. Childhood
    4. Foodways
    5. Hero
    6. Historical Realism
    7. Humanism
    8. Incarceration
    9. Manhood
    10. Plantation
    11. Sugarcane
    12. White Supremacy
  5. Bibliography

A Lesson Before Dying

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ENGL 596

Fall 2025

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