The theme of education, learning, teaching, being a teacher, who is educated and why,

runs throughout the novel A Lesson Before Dying. The attainment of knowledge influences

Grant, Jefferson, Vivian, and Reverend Ambrose differently throughout the novel. Grant, Vivian,

Jefferson, and Reverend Ambrose all struggle to do what they feel is right based on what they

each individually know. Knowledge is the familiarity gained by sight, experience, and truth of a

particular subject. With knowledge comes education.

Grant is a school teacher that teaches the children in the quater reading, writing, and

arithmetics. In the beggining of the novel Grant is depicted to be educated because he is a black

man who took it upon himself to better his life. But Grant has no faith in God. All Grant knows

is how to be a teacher, not how to teach someone to be a man because he doesn't know exactly

what a man is, and not how to teach someone to have faith when he himself......

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Title: A Lesson Before Dying
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Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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