Vivian Monologue

Emma and Grant. After learning to open back up to his friends and family, he still gives them disrespect. A few pages after Jefferson talks to Grant, Ms. Emma comes to have a conversation with him. After she asks Jefferson how he is feeling, he doesn’t even respond or act like she’s there (page 136), showing how much Jefferson in entrenched into the idea of not finding value in himself. Furthermore, on page 130, while Jefferson talks up to Grant, he tries to anger him by insulting his girlfriend and testing his patience. Both of these interactions take place in cases where Jefferson shows signs of opening up to others, but they are also instances of how little Jefferson loves or cares about those who care about him. On page 139, this is addressed when Jefferson has another conversation with Grant a couple of days later. When talking with Jefferson, Grant tells him, “no matter how bad off we are,’ I said, ‘we still owe something. You owe something, Jefferson. Not to me. But to your godmother. You must show her some understanding, some kind of love.” Then Jefferson tells him, “That’s for youman’s... I ain’t no youman.” Later in the book, Jefferson eventually starts to show love to his loved ones again after having a powerful, life-changing conversation with Grant. After this, he is able to eat Ms. Emma’s food and is able to

Baym, Nina, and Robert S. Levine. "Thomas Jefferson." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: W.W. Norton, 2013. 762-65. Print.

During the conversation Miss Emily tells the men “See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson” (31). Colonel Sartoris has been dead for almost ten years. Emily’s behavior not only shows mental instability but also that she may be delusional and confused.

The main theme and lesson is that self-dignity is intrinsic to our survival. Jefferson even sacrificed his freedom, and ultimately his life, in order to die as a man with dignity. Although Miss Emma, Jefferson’s godmother, was old and frail, she did all that she could to make sure that Jefferson died nothing less than a man. In Jefferson’s last letter to Mr. Wiggins, he wanted to make sure that he was going to be remembered as a “strong man” (Gaines

“ His Expression remained the same- cynical, defiant, painful” (Gaines 84). Miss Emma did not think that Jefferson knew he was going to be put in the chair, which kind of furthers this whole idea that everyone has that’s he’s incompetent. Even his own aunt without realizing has degraded him. I think that maybe Jefferson can’t read or write but he’s a human who understands laws. At the beginning of the book I was feeding into the notion that he was mentally challenged, but I think now that he just grew up in the uneducated black stigma put on him by white people not letting black school have the same education. And so he knows he is going to die, he doesn’t fight he doesn’t resist he faces the unjust punishment with grace and is going o let

Grant is very strict towards his students. Grant then thinks about his teacher when he was a child, Matthew Antoine, describes him to us, tells about his influence, and what they talked about. Next, Grant goes with Miss Emma to visit Jefferson in his cell, but when they talk to him, he doesn’t acknowledge that they are their and is difficult to them. During Grant’s next visit, Jefferson acts like a hog and is infatuated with the idea that he is one. Grant wants to leave town with Vivian, but there are several things holding them back. Grant and Vivian discuss the names of their future children and talk to Miss Emma and Tante Lou. The visits to the jail continue and there isn’t much progress with Jefferson. Jefferson doesn’t want to eat or talk. Grant goes to Mr. Pichot’s house and Jefferson’s execution date is set on a Friday. Another visit, Jefferson tells Grant that he wants a gallon of ice cream for dinner his last night. Grant gets him a radio to keep him company, but Reverend Ambrose, Tante Lou, and Miss Emma thing the radio is a bad thing for him. Grant also gets Jefferson a notebook and pencil so he can right down his feelings or what he’s thinking about. You start to see Grant and Jefferson start to bond and Grant leaves happy with what is happening. The next time he goes to see Jefferson, Miss Emma goes.

Jefferson is being set on the chair for a crime he did not commit but takes fault for; this makes his experience alienating because he thinks of himself as a hog like the white men said of him. He lost his purpose in life and all his nannan raised him to be was lost in this hog. He lost his self value and Mr. Wiggins notices that he is hurting those who try to convince him he is a man, "Are you trying to hurt me, Jefferson?" I asked him. "Are you trying to make me feel guilty for your being here? You don't want me to come back here

Jefferson tells Grant about how he wants a whole gallon of vanilla ice cream for his last meal, something he hasn’t told his nannan or the reverend. This is a way to show

Throughout his time in jail, Jefferson has developed a very defeatist attitude. It is almost as if he has accepted the fact that he is the hog people think of him as. Understandably, the defeatism comes from the fact that he is innocent, but is getting murdered anyway. The fact that people do not believe him really gets to Jefferson, as evident by his attitude. Grant tries to get Jefferson to talk, although most of the time it was unsuccessful. A security guard at the jail feels bad, so he keeps an eye especially on Jefferson and does not check Grant as fully as he is supposed to. He keeps Grant updated on the things happening with Jefferson To Grant’s surprise, during one of the visits, Jefferson says, “I want me a whole gallona ice cream” (170). This statement marks the first step of Jefferson’s recovery. Throughout the first half of the novel, Jefferson has not been himself. He has rarely spoken, and keeps to himself. He has expressed no personal desire, allowing people to feed him and move him around as if he is the animal his lawyer called him. He begins to act like a human again by expressing desire and personality with the ice cream as the instigator. Jefferson’s request also illustrates the beginnings of his realization of self-worth. Jefferson says he never had the opportunity to eat a filling portion of ice cream in the past. Now, for the first time, he not only asks for the ice

Since many of the members of the older generation have retired or have died, the younger generation wanted her to pay her taxes because there was nothing written down that said that she was exempt from paying them.  When the younger generation asked her to pay her taxes, Emily said that Colonel Sartoris had told her she had not taxes to pay in Jefferson.  The problem as that Colonel Sartoris has been dead for ten years.  Even though he was dead, the "Colonel had given his word, and according to traditional view, his word knew no death.  It is the past pitted against the present-the past with its social decorum, the present with everything set down in 'the books'"(Rodriguez 1).

ill fucking kill you bitch if you don't stop talking shit behind my back you dirty tart. You be suck all sort of dick my boy and I gonna expose your bitch ass if you don't stop. maybe ill brake your fucking family's knees in. I'm not going to fuck around anymore you fucking dirty ass bitch, another thing you owe me money you hoe. bitch I got niggas that are willing to beat your ass.........

I don’t fight, cry or yell but these days I find myself wanting to do all three.

She Constantly Left Jack on a Hook Rose had no loyalty and never had Jack's back. They first meet at Titanic's stern, where Rose contemplates jumping to end her life. Hoping to dissuade her, Jack removes his jacket and boots to prove he's serious about going in the ocean after her. She nearly slips, and her screams catch the crew's attention. Between Jack being stripped down and Rose's disheveled appearance, it's presumed he tried to rape her.

Miss Emily lived her life almost throughout on display before the town of Jefferson and ultimately this resulted in her lack of socialization and human interaction. The fault in this matter lies with her father, the respected mayor of Jefferson, who protected her and kept her under thumb, driving away every suitor that came to call. People came to picture poor Miss Emily as “a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door” (Faulkner 35). In this visualization, her father clearly stood between her and the real world as a threatening and domineering figure. One might believe that such a prominent figure would interact with the public on a daily basis in a positive manner, but it appears that the Grierson status only encouraged the prying eyes of the townspeople to impede on Miss Emily’s

Sally Hemings got out of her bed, with lethargy due to the recent move to Hôtel de Langeac, in Paris. The rays of the sun shined bright on Sally’s face. She had accompanied Thomas Jefferson’s younger eight year old daughter, Maria, to Paris to stay with her father. Her mother, Martha Wayles, had recently passed away and it was Sally who was responsible to take care of her. Sally’s brother, James Hemings, too was in Paris. Thomas Jefferson had taken James Hemings with him as he wanted James to be trained as chef.