A Lesson Before Dying

In A Lesson Before Dying

Mr.Grant Wiggins' life crises were the center of the story.

Although he was supposed to make Jefferson into a man, he

himself became more of one as a result. Not to say that

Jefferson was not in any way transformed from the "hog" he

was into an actual man, but I believe this story was really

written about Mr. Wiggins. Mr. Wiggins improved as a

person greatly in this book, and that helped his relationships

with other people for the most part. At the start of the book,

he more or less hated Jefferson, but after a while he became

his friend and probably the only person Jefferson felt he

could trust. The turning point in their relationship was the one

visit in which Jefferson told Mr. Wiggins that he wanted a

gallon of ice cream, and that he never had enough ice cream

in his whole life. At that point Jefferson confided something

in Mr. Wiggins, something that I didn't see Jefferson doing

often at all in this book. "I saw a slight smile come to his

face, and it was not a bitter smile. Not bitter at all"; this is the

first instance in which Jefferson breaks his somber barrier

and shows emotions. At that point he became a man, not a

hog. As far as the story tells, he never showed any sort of

emotion before the shooting or after up until that point. A

hog can't show emotions, but a man can. There is the

epiphany of the story, where Mr. Wiggins realizes that the

purpose of life is to help make the world a better place, and

at that time he no longer minds visiting Jefferson and begins

becoming his friend. Mr. Wiggins' relationship with his Aunt

declined in this story, although it was never very strong. His

Aunt treated him like he should be a hog and always obey,

yet she wanted him to make a hog into a man. His Aunt was

not a very nice person, she would only show kindness

towards people who shared many of her views, and

therefore was probably a very hard person to get along with.

The way Mr. Wiggins regarded his relationships most likely

would have been different were he white. Mr. Wiggins feels,

and rightly so, that several white men try to mock or make a

fool of him throughout the story. This was a time of racial

discrimination with much bigotry, so if the story took place in

the present, it would be much different. In fact, there

probably would have not even been a book because in the

modern day, and honest and just jury would have found him

innocent due to the lack of evidence. It wasn't really clear

what sort of situation Mr. Wiggins was in regarding money,

but he could not have been too well off because he needed

to borrow money to purchase a radio for Jefferson, and he

commented about the Rainbow Cafe: 

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