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Essay Instructions: Essay/report on A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest J. Gaines, required to prove an ability to write an original essay.

Essay Instructions: Analyze one of the questions on the novel A Lesson Before Dying. I will send the specific guidelines for the assignment. I am requesting Denise Day
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Essay Instructions: Consider the title of A Lesson before Dying. In this novel Grant Wiggins teaches Jefferson how to be a man (does he?). Wiggins also tries to teach schoolchildren not to be like Jefferson. Meanwhile Wiggins seems to learn from Jefferson what it means to be a "youman." What exactly are these lessons? Taught by whom? How? What kinds of education are valued, in order to teach these lessons? Valued by whom? Why? And what kinds of education are seen as potentially dangerous or damaging or simply a waste of time? How does Ernest J. Gaines raise and address these questions in his novel? Please avoid writing a paper in which you simply list and describe any number of "lessons" taught and learned in Gainse's novel. Develop an argument a thesis, about an important lesson and try to persuade your reader what it is and why it is important enough to be thought of as included in the title of the novel.

Essay Instructions: *Focus on the historical and social background that influenced Ernest Gaines and his literary works; You will write a research paper to support the author and his literary works were influenced by the civil rights movement. Analyze each main character's symbol in the novels listed below, and relate to one another. For example, Jefferson in "A Lesson Before dying" is related to someone in a novel because they represent some meaning. (must be related to the civil rights movement)

Primary source: "A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest Gaines

Secondary sources: "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, " "Catherine Carmier, " "Of Love and Dust, " "A Gathering of Old Men, " and his other literary works that support the analysis. (mandatory use), history information that describes about the civil right movement especially in Lousiana. (the author was born in Lousiana)

*Please indicate the page number as you cite any sources.(quotation-mark form)
*Do not use too much sophisticated words!! (I'm not a native speaker!!)

*Make some technical errors! ex: inappropriate word choice (but not many; the professor might have suspicion if my essay is too perfect.

*If you can, please do outline.(optional)