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A Lesson Before Dying: Mr. Wiggins
In A Lesson Before Dying, Mr. Grant Wiggins' life crises were the
center of the story. Although he was supposed to make Jefferson into a man,
he himself became more of one as a result. Not to say that Jefferson was
not in any way transformed from the "hog" he was into an actual man, but I
believe this story was really written about Mr. Wiggins.
Mr. Wiggins improved as a person greatly in this book, and that
helped his relationships with other people for the most part. At the
start of the book, he more or less hated Jefferson, but after a while he
became his friend and ....
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