Blog Post Assignment Advice assignment

Hello!! My name is Grant Wiggins I am sending you this letter because I am in need of your assistance. I have been given a task that is kinda hard for me to accomplish. The task is for me to help a young man be a man. It's hard for me to accomplish this task because I can't teach someone who doesn't want to learn. Every since the jury called him a hog he has been acting like one. I need your assistance so that I can help him understand the he is a man. I don't have much time.

Blog Assignment 3

Chapter 3 Questions:

1. How does Henri Pichot's insistence that Jefferson "did it" redirect the plot narrative ?
- When Henri Pichot said that it redirected the plot narrative by giving the audience another perspective on the situation.

2. Miss Emma keeps saying that Grant "doesn't have to go" to visit Jefferson in prison. The narrator comments, "She was looking at me but not seeing me, and not meaning what she was saying either." What is Grant implying by this and what does he the she means?
- Grant is saying that Miss Emma was looking at him, but wasn't paying mind to him at all, and he thinks that she really wants him to go visit Jefferson in prison.

3. What does the back door of Henri Pichot's plantation house symbolizes to Grant and his aunt? Why does having to enter the back door rankle Grant?
- The back door of Henri's Pichot's plantation house symbolizes a time back then to when they use to work on the plantation, and having to enter it rankles Grant because it's been 10 years since he has entered it.

4. How does Miss Emma prevail on Henri Pichot's to speak on the sheriff on her behalf?
- Miss Emma begs, and says that she has done a lot for his family, and that she deserves it.

Quotation Questions:

" I didn't raise no hog, and I dont want no hog to go set in that chair. I want a man to go set in that chair, Mr. Henri."
Chapter 3 pg. 20

1. Does the quotation characterize Grant, Jeffereson, or another character? If so, in what way does it characterize?
- Yes, it characterizes Miss Emma it shows how bad she wants Jefferson to die as a man and not a worthless hog and it characterizes her in a caring way.

2. To what contemporary issue does the quotation connect?
- The quotation connects to the issue that Jefferson is going to be put in a electrical chair soon to get executed.