A Lesson Before Dying Ernest J. Gaines Author: Ernest J. Gaines: Ernest J. Gains was born in 1933 on a plantation in Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana. In his early years, Gaines worked in the plantation fields picking cotton, and went to school for five of six months a year when he wasn't in the fields. When he was old enough and after leaving the plantation he attended San Francisco State University. Gaines published his first short …showed first 75 words of 715 total…

…showed last 75 words of 715 total…personally believe that racism is a topic about which everybody should be informed and I think that it is a interesting theme to be dealt with in a book. But I am nevertheless of the opinion that racism is nowadays in schools overprecise analysed and the pupils are so often faced with it that they loose the sight for the danger and the horror of racism itself because they are fed up with it.