A Lesson Before Dying Thesis
...rant confronts Tante Lou about her controlling him saying, “Everything you sent me to school for, you’re stripping me of it” He is talking about how the guards humiliate him when he goes to see Jefferson. They search him like a criminal and go through the food that is brought for Jefferson. Everything he went to school for, to be respected, not have to live in poverty, and not be the white men’s nigger. Tante Lou shows she thinks of grant as her only hope when she says, “…I wished I had somebody else we could turn to. But they ain’t nobody else” It is evident that in her mind Grant is the only one who can help Jefferson, and thus forth help her community to be freed from the cycle racism. In a conversation with Vivian Grant explains why Tante Lou thinks he is the only hope. Grant says “…each time a male is born, they hope he will be the one to change this viscous circle…” Tante Lou think he is the only hope simply because she raised him and Is a male so she hopes he will be the one to save her community. In the same conversation grant also says “…They see me-and I, who grew up on that same plantation, can teach reading, wri...