How To Be A Better Man in Life.

      The reader is given us a unique outlook on the status of African Americans in the south after war world 2 and before the civil Rights Movements. Grant is the only educated black man in the area and the only member of the black community who might be consider capable of becoming free. The story took place in Bayonne which is a small town, a jail house, a school, plantation and finally a church. Grant is a school teacher and a serious man. He lives with is aunt and Jefferson's godmother. Grant life and choices are severely limited and he must refer to white male authority as sir.

      Jefferson who is a twenty-one year old uneducated black field worker was accused and convicted of the robbery and murder of a white man and sentence to death by electrocution. To compound the horror of his situation, Jefferson internalizes the attorney's racist depiction of him as a dumb animal. In spite of this all the white jury finds Jefferson guilty. Determined that Jefferson will died, his godmother, Miss Emma turns to Grant and ask him to teach Jefferson to be a man. Although Grant agree to go visits him in jail.

     This book actually connects with the man that they executed in Georgia last years ago. This also shows us how the color affect others and the idea that racism remained the same in our society. I think because of what happen, black people should be very careful when it comes to those who are white.