CliffsNotes on Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying

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In CliffsNotes on A Lesson Before Dying, you get to know the story of a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach. He visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit, and together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.