In a Lesson Before Dying the women played a significant role to the men. A Lesson Before Dying took place in Louisiana during 1948. A man named Jefferson was accused of killing a white person, and Jefferson was sentenced to death by the electric chair. There were scenes between Grant and Tante Lou, Grant and Vivian, and Jefferson and Miss Emma. The first moments were between Grant and Tante Lou. Tante Lou had raised Grant and sent him off to school to learn and become a teacher. This made Grant become a better man, a better person, and a better role model for the kids he taught in his school. Next, Tante Lou taught him that not everything is gonna go the way you want it in your life. For …show more content…
The poem is about the same themes and has the messages basically the same and was written after the movie was made. They have many themes, characters, and messages that are each like each other.
There are many themes that are the same between the moviee and the poem. The first theme that’s the same is that they both have Judgment in them. They both have judgment in them by having the movie judge the blacks in most things that they do and in the poem they judge them by calling the blacks hogs instead of their real name. Another theme they both have in common is racism. The movie has it by the whites calling the blacks names and being disrespectful to them and we also see and read that in the poem. That’s just two of the many themes they have in common.
The next thing the movie and the poem have in common is that they both have similar characters to one another. For example, in the movie they have Jefferson in the jail cell and in the poem they say and mention that someone is penned and put in an inglorious spot, which means that they are in an uncomfortable jail cell. Next, it says in the movie that let him die as a man on the chair and make them proud. Then they go on and say in the poem that let our blood may not be shed but to honor us through death. That’s how they have some characters the