i reread a lesson before dying. i remembered it not at all. all i remembered was that there were many conversations between someone and someone else, the latter of whom was about to be executed.but i remembered wrong. there aren't many conversations between the two. in fact, they barely exchange ...
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman: Ernest J. Gaines' novel of the long journey to freedomA Note from the incomplete readerThe Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman was originally published by Ernest J. Gainesthrough the Dial Press in 1971. A second printing followed in 1972. The Second Pri...
This is the life story of Ernest J. Gaines and inspiration used in his writing. His story starts with his family history and growing up in Louisiana on a plantation in Pointe Coupee Parish, a community which helped shape his characters for stories. He built his current house on land of the same...
Ernest J. Gaines uses the device of multiple narrators most famously used by William Faulkner in As I Lay Dying to tell a story largely through the points of view of a segment of the southern population that Faulkner depicted only from the distant vantage point of the old white aristocracy—impove...
Of Love and Dust / 0-679-75248-XWhen a young black man is forced to work on a white man's farm to "work off" his prison sentence, he astonishes his more moderate peers by entirely refusing to accept the situation. Rather than capitulate, accept the situation, and "make the best of it", he chafes ...
“Who that?” Madame Toussaint asks. “Me. Eddie Howard,” Daddy says. He squats down so I can slide off his back. I slide down and let Daddy hold my hand. “What you want, Eddie Howard?” Madame Toussaint asks. “I got three dollars,” Daddy says. “I still want that advice.” Madame Toussaint’s big old j...
