A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines is about a young black man that observed a robbery were everybody was killed except him. He was sentenced into an electric death. The protagonist of the story was Grant, he is the one that helps Jefferson to think himself as a man before he dies. There is not a real antagonist, I think that they are the white people because they were very racists. the setting of the story was The Rainbow Club and Jefferson´s cell. The conflict was that Jefferson was sentenced to death and Grant needed to help him, but he didn´t knew how. Later he also learn about Jefferson and he help him to die as a man.
I liked the story because it shows us that even if you are in a bad moment you can pass through it and that it was very exciting how Jefferson was learning to become a man. I didn´t like a lot the writing because it didn´t have enough dialogue and it was very repetitive. I would recommend this book to people that give up really easy because the book teach us that you can´t give up easy, even tho