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Dear Abby,           My name is Grant, I am a teacher in Louisiana. I am currently facing what one may consider a quandary. My dilemma began about a week ago. My aunt's friend, Miss Emma, has a nephew named Jefferson. Jefferson has recently been caught up in a messy web. He is being tried for murder. Although Jefferson did not commit the murder, he was present when it occurred. He was not awarded a fair trial. Jefferson is of a darker hue and the man murdered was caucasian, due to discrimination in the area which we live, Jefferson was convicted of the crime, and sentenced to death by execution. During his trial, the prosecutor delineated Jefferson as being a hog, this has really impacted the little self-esteem that Jefferson had. When I went to visit him I brought food, he asked me if I had corn, which indeed I did, and he got down on his knees and begin to eat the corn from the basket as if he were really a hog. I visit him because I was asked by Miss Emma to educate him before

Chapter 5 1.) The church was used as Grant's classroom. 2.) The school only meet for five and a half months because, for the rest of the year, the children were needed in the fields. 3.) I feel that Grant goes into such detail about how Jefferson will be killed simply to scare the children into learning so that they won't end up like Jefferson. 4.) Mr. Farrell tells Grant that Henri Pichot wants to meet with him at five that evening. Quote 1: "Every little thing was irritating me." pg.35 * Grant has become agitated by small things, that are branching off of his larger problem, the "man vs. self" conflict that he has encountered with having to teach Jefferson. Quote 2: "Do you know what his nannan wants me to do before they kill him? The public defender called him a hog, and she wants me to make him a man. Within the next few weeks, maybe a month, whatever the law allows - make him a man. Exactly what I'm trying to do here with you n

Chapter 3 "Mr.Henri? I'll be up here again tomorrow, Mr.Henri. I'll be on my knees next time you see me, Mr.Henri." - page 23 2.) This quote characterizes Miss Emma, is shows Miss Emma's dedication to the well-being of Jefferson and her determination to his education before he is killed. 3.) This quotation indicates the conflict that Miss Emma is having with Mr.Henri about talking to the sheriff on her behalf and the conflict that she is having with coming to terms with Jefferson dying as "a hog." Chapter 4 "I need to go someplace where I can feel I'm living." - page 29  1.) This quotation relates to the desire to escape and displacement. Grant basically wants to leave behind the life that he is living now hence the theme, desire to escape. This could also relate to displacement because one could assume that Grant feels that he is not in the right place to live out his life. 5.) This quotation could in some ways symbolize the la

Chapter 3: 1.)  Henry Pichot's insistence that Jefferson "did it" helps to support his opinion on how Grant should not be able to visit Jefferson. He believes that because Jefferson "did it" he should have to suffer his consequences and die as what he was labeled "a hog." 2.) By saying that "She was looking at me but not seeing me, and not meaning what she was saying, either." Grant nearly meant that Miss Emma knew that he didn't want to go but she was not very accepting of the fact. She used "He doesn't have to go." as a way to make Grant feel bad. 3.) The back door of Henri Pichot's plantation house symbolizes Grant going away to college and leaving behind the life that his aunt and Miss Emma had to live as servants. Having to enter the plantation house through the back door annoys Grant because when he left for college he was told to never enter through the back door again. 4.) Miss Emma uses her credibility and