A Lesson Before Dying Research Paper

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Do you believe that character development changes a person for the better or comes to realization? Throughout the year we have read different books that all had a thing for character development. Everyone in each book learned something that gave them character development. Throughout the first book A Lesson Before Dying the man goes to jail for a crime that he didn't commit throughout the first book A Lesson Before Dying the man goes to jail for a crime that he didn't commit throughout the time he had mentors that taught him something that would uplift his spirits. When he first went to jail, he became depressed because he realized that he would be spending the rest of his life in jail over this crime. During his short time he experienced guidance from his grandmother to his family friend who was a school teacher. This teacher taught him a lot about developing himself behind bars.

Jefferson was a young black man who
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At the beginning of the book, Meursault's mother dies. When he attends her funeral, he lacks emotions of his mother's death; this lets the reader know that he has a lack of emotion or that his relationship with his mother wasn't as close. His lack of emotion makes you think that he didn't care about his mother's death, which made her friends that attended her funeral feel some type of way. Since he wasn't concerned about his mother's death, it would make you believe that they weren't close. During the time Meursault kills the Arab man on the beach, he gets arrested for this murder. Him killing the Arab man shows you how he doesn't value his life since he kills the man out of frustration in the heat. When he gets to jail he feels like he is isolated from the world which makes him get into his thoughts. During his time he reflects on what he does which develops some type of character development since he comes to realize that he was wrong for what he