"A Lesson Before Dying"

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This paper summarizes Gaines's novel, "A Lesson Before Dying," analyzes the characters in the novel, and examines the themes of the story about manhood, duty, and respect for one's elders and how they relate to the author's own life.

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"The civil rights movement came about because there was so much discrimination and prejudice against African-Americans in the United States. This discrimination was very bad for racial relations between whites and blacks, and it made blacks feel like even though they were no longer slaves, they were not really "free." In the first fifty-to-sixty years of the Twentieth Century, blacks were treated with very little respect, especially in the south. Gaines writes about characters that lived then, but rather than preach to his readers about how bad it was for blacks back then, he lets the story come out through his characters."

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