A Lesson Before Dying: Chapter 3 Questions.
1.How does Henri Pichots insistence that Jefferson "did it" redirect the plot narrative? Henri says simply that he recognized him in the wrong way. He also treats him like a slave. Later on at the end of the chapter Henri refuses anyone to see Jefferson.
2. Miss Emma keeps saying that grant "doesn't have to go" to visit Jefferson in prison. The narrator comments, "She was looking at me but not seeing me, and not meaning what she was saying,either." What is Grant implying by this, what does he does he think she means? Miss Emma and Tante Lou want Grant to go teach Jefferson so he can go as a man not a boy and show the court that he's not a hog.
3.What does the back door of Henri Pinchot's plantation house symbolized to Grant and his aunt? Why does having to enter the plantations house though the back door rankle Grant? He doesn't what to be seen as a slave as he says " It was you who said you never want to go through the back door again."
4. How does Miss Emma prevail on Henri Pichot to speak to the sheriff on her behalf? She basically tells the sheriff she wants him to go out as a man not as a boy also to let Henri teach him how to be a man and show everyone that he is not a hog.
Quotation Assignment
"It was you that said you never wanted me to go through that back door ever again."
Chapter 3,page 17
Does the quotation relate to the theme? Yes, because in the theme he doesn't want to go through the back of the gate because it makes him feel like a slave, also not free.
Does the quotation indicate a conflict? Yes, he doesn't want to be treated like a slave by going to the back door. It makes him feel like he is not free to do what he feels so he says he doesn't want to go to the back any more, never again.
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