Homework Help: 12th grade English

Posted by David on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 8:30pm.

A Lesson Before Dying- Quotations Analysis.

" I had gone to barbershops;I had stood on street corners, and i had gone to many suppers in the quarter.But i had never really listened to what was being said.Then i began to listen, to listen closely to how they taked about their heroes, how they talked about the dead and how great the dead had once been. I heard it everywhere." (p.90)

Questions
1.Does the quote Characterize Grant, Jefferson, or another character? If so, in what way does it characterize?

2.Does the quote symbolize the lack of freedom of a black person at this time? Does the quote symbolize the history of oppression of a black person? if so, to what part of history does the quote relate?

12th grade English - Writeacher, Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 8:33pm
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