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Gaines had experienced a hard time as a people of black and he was unsatisfied with the circumstance at that time.He could not find a book talking about blacks because books were always written by white authors.So Gaines went different places to find sources to finish his book.He wants to show the characteristic of history by showing a person’s growth to the people.]]> 2018-02-06 14:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228595744 hz4554a https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228595902 1.What is/are the purpose(s) for him to write this book? 
He wants to raise a voice for black people and maybe he wants to put his book into the California library's shelf. Besides, he also claims to the white people that they are equal. 
2. What did we learn from the video?
Ernest Gaines fight through many difficulties to complete the book "a lesson before dying".]]> 2018-02-06 14:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228595902 https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228596338 Ernest J. Gaines wrote the book "A Lesson Before Dying" to stand up for African American who had been suffered the racism in 1940s. This book has some parts that similar to Ernest J. Gaines life's before in the discrimination society between black and white people.]]> 2018-02-06 14:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228596338 https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228596534 It's a very important video to watch because it give us some basic idea about Ernest Gaines, such as how is his childhood influenced him and made him a good writer, and how is he travel around the country to gain idea for his book.
In this video, Ernest Gains talk about his time in the library, and how was the book he read prompt him to write a book for his black community.
During the interview, Ernest Gain also talked about how is he gain idea from his aunt for his book, such as from her conversation with other people. He also talk about how is true event of a execution of a innocent black people prompt him to write a book to show the injustice that toward the black people.
 ]]> 2018-02-06 14:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228596534 https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228596841 From the video, we know that the author grew in a time period that the black people did not have the equal social status as same as the white.
The reason why he wrote this book was that he wanted to encourage and motivate others, especially for the black people and the young whites to learn the histories in that year.
In order to write this book, he travelled all over the states and went to all kinds of bars, resultants and cafes to do the research.]]> 2018-02-06 14:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/228596841 as8596a https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/229889274 The interview of Ernest J. Gaines tells a lot about the novel "A Lesson Before Dying". It shows how the author and main character Grant have so many similarities as growing up on plantation and fighting for human rights. He wrote this book to introduce and explain people how hard it was to live for African Americans. Suffering inequality and almost being dependent from White people, did not result progress in fighting racism and equal rights. The audience should learn to respect each other and realize through what people overcome in order to achieve stability between races. ]]> 2018-02-09 03:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/leah_mortenson/zfkizy204w3y/wish/229889274