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Theme of Redemption in A Lesson Before Dying

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A Lesson Before Dying

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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines

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A Lesson Before Dying

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A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

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A Lesson Before Dying

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Ernest J. Gaines

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1993

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A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993. It was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Novel by Ernest J. Gaines

Pages: 256 pp

MLA (7th ed.) Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying. , 1994. Print.

Set in the rural south in the 1940s during Jim Crow laws and racial segregation, Gaines’s eighth novel, A Lesson Before Dying, tells the story of a falsely-accused young black man on death row and a Louisiana-born, college educated teacher who visits him in prison and helps him regain his dignity.Nov 24, 2013

Thesis: In the novel A Lesson Before Dying Jefferson is able to transform from a “worthless” individual into a man who dies with dignity and respect with the help of Miss Emma, Grant, and his own self reflection.

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