Blog Post Assigment 3

A Lesson Before Dying Chapter 3
1.He explains that he can't change what the court has sentenced him. He says that he can't say anymore than what has already been said. He said that he spoke for Jefferson but the whole time he thought that he did it (committed the crime).
2.He implied that she really didn't mean what she said when she says he doesn't have to go teach him to become a man.
3.Grant had to do chores and Miss Emma had been the cook and the housekeeper at the Pichot's house for many years. Miss Emma had enough and did enough to get him by so he would never have to go back.
4.Emma says she wants to ask Mr. Henri for a favor because he was a boy to the courtroom and she wants a man to go to the chair not hog. She ask Mr. Henri to talk to the sheriff so Grant can teach him in jail. After begging, Mr. Henri agrees to talk to him and Emma threatens to come back everyday until the sheriff accepts.
A lesson Before Dying Questions
Quote: "They called my boy a hog, Mr. Henri,"Miss Emma said." I didn't raise no hog, and I don't want no hog to go sit in that chair. I want a man to go sit in the chair, Mr.Henri."
3.Jefferson was sentenced to death penalty by electrical shock. The court looked at him as a wild animal. She wanted a man to take the consequences not a wild animal.
6. Miss Emma wanted to make the court believe that Jefferson wasn't the "hog" in the chair but a man was being placed there.