"A Lesson Before Dying" by Ernest Gaines

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 t…