Letter Of Advice

Dear he/she Columnist, As a school teacher with problems of my own. I am asked by a distress older woman to teach her god son to be a man before he dies. Now confused on the idea of teaching someone else to become a man in a short amount of time. The court system is charging him with death of a white man, only because he was at the wrong place with the wrong people. I am confused on what is a man to be, do I even know what a actual man. I ask myself if it is worth it, Jefferson the young man believes he is a hog, only because white man said it. In our first meet he would act nonchalant and would ignore me. How am I able to teach someone as stubborn as he? How am I suppose to fulfill miss Emma's wishes, if her God son has put in his mind that he is just a "hog", when I brought in dinner, Jefferson decides to demonstrate how was just a hog and not human like everyone else by only eating without his hand and eating sloppily like a animal. What are some ways that I can get through this young man to let him know he worth something, he is a black "man" and is proud of it, instead of what he is label as "hog"? How to get through such a stubborn mind as his? Thank you, Grant.

CHAPTER 3 QUESTIONS & QUOTES

CHAPTER 3 questions 1. How does Henry Pichot's insistence that Jefferson "did it" redirect the plot narrative? A: that he, no doubt in his mind that Jefferson did it because he was a black man and only held his tongue for miss Emma. 2. A:He is saying that Miss. Emma wants him to see Jefferson and saying that she just wants him to feel guilty about it and actually go. 3. A: It basically symbolizes the way the "black only" entrance and how they all enter through the back as slaves and his his aunt Tante Lou told Grant that she never wanted him to ever enter through that door again. 4. A: Because she has done so much for his family she feel as if they could owe her this last wish, and she feel that she could not take no more heartbreak and only want her god son to die as a man and not labeled as a "hog". CHAPTER:3 (QUOTES) QUOTE #1: "He did it", "I spoke for him because of you, but all the time I knew he did it." Pg. 22 A: This quote is significant, because even though Mr. Henri does not have any facts on what happen, he still label him as the bad guy and just because he is a black young man he is automatically guilty no matter what. This quote relate to modern day problems black men to this day still are being treated as "hogs", most of the time they are in jail for crimes they never commit. (Question #6) QUOTE #2: "They called my boy a hog, Mr. Henri," Miss Emma said. Pg. 20 A: In this quote, Jefferson is characterize as "hog" who does not know any better. As an uneducated, black, low boy. His God mother wants her god son to know his worth as a man even though he is label a hog in the white man eyes. He is characterize as uneducated or "dumb" like an animal and should be put down as an Wild out control animal because of what he is label as. (Question #2)