Question:  My name is Grant and I am a teacher at a black children's school at the church. I have a problem and I do not know how to handle it.  My auntie's friend Miss Emma nephew Jefferson just got sentenced to death for the crime of killing Mr.Grope, but in the limited amount of time that he has left they want me to teach how to be a man because during his trial they kept comparing him to a hog, but he is on the floor at acting like one and i don't know why he acting like this and I don't want to make Miss Emma sad by telling her the truth about how he acted. I don't want to deal with this situation, but I have been manipulated into by miss Emma and my auntie and I don't want to deal with the humiliation this puts me through by going through all my stuff and paying me down which makes me feel like a slave being inspected. How do I handle the situation?Why do you think Jefferson is acting like a hog. How do I make Jefferson stop acting like a hog? How do I teach him how to be a man? And what to do I tell Miss Emma about what happened today?

chapter 3-4 Questions

1. Henri Pichot's insistence that Jefferson was guilty could redirect the plot by showing the view the readers the view of a outsider and could also show the view of a white person's perspective on  Jefferson's "crime".

2. He means she is looking at him and talking to him but she is really thinking about Jefferson and the how he was degraded at the trial. She also tries to make him feel guilty by saying Grant doesn't have to go.

3. The back door symbolizes the place where they had no freedom. It is also a bad memory of harder time that they probably don't want to relive. the use of the back door signifies that they are lesser and they deserve the use of the front.

4. she reminded of all the things she did for his family. She felt like he owed for all the things she did for him in the past.

 Ch. 4

1. It so the defender's true feelings abut Jefferson and his true position in the trial because if he was really trying to defend him why compare him to hog when you have a slaughter house in town. the hog comment would remind the jury of the SH which would cause them to think of how hogs need to be slaughtered. 

2. He wants to leave because he feels that all there is to there is live and die, but something holds him back. his love for Vivian if it wasn't for her he would have been gone.