A Lesson Before Dying (美國學校用書)
A Lesson Before Dying (美國學校用書)
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A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting—and defying—the expected.
——中文簡介摘自商周出版《死前的最後一堂課》
A Lesson Before Dying, is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university, has returned to the plantation school to teach. As he struggles with his decision whether to stay or escape to another state, his aunt and Jefferson's godmother persuade him to visit Jefferson in his cell and impart his learning and his pride to Jefferson before his death. In the end, the two men forge a bond as they both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting—and defying—the expected.
真正的勇敢，不一定是拚命抵抗
四○年代的路易斯安納州，二十一歲的黑人傑佛遜因為好奇，捲入一樁雜貨店搶案，不料，行搶的友人及老闆當場喪命，只有他一人倖存。無人能證明他的清白，不願為自己辯護的他，被白人法官判了死刑，必須坐上電椅。
同是黑人的葛蘭特自外地學成歸鄉，在區裡的教堂教課。獨善其身、能言善道的他，一直以為自己可以和家鄉的同胞不一樣，然而一切似乎不如所想，他希望有朝一日能夠逃離這裡。當他得知傑佛遜的判決後，本想冷眼看待，卻在親友的逼迫之下，勉為其難地走進監獄，為傑佛遜上臨死前的最後一堂課：要帶著尊嚴與自傲而死。
受挫而自甘墮落的傑佛遜能否找回為人的價值？矛盾而掙扎的葛蘭特如何尋得救贖的意義？這是一堂教導，更是一次領悟。美國南方的種族歧視，黑人教師的不甘抱負，無知少年的受挫人生，交織出最堅韌、不捨的生命情誼。甘恩以濃厚的在地情懷，對生命奮鬥的深摯同情，以及人物心理狀態的細膩刻劃，寫出了一部歷久彌新的經典。
——中文簡介摘自商周出版《死前的最後一堂課》
