Your task, should you choose to accept it (and, really, you don't have any choice), is to write a 7-10 page paper in the style of a first person narrative. You can choose the person whose perspective you are writing from from among any of the characters in A Lesson Before Dying, with the exception of the following:
Your narrative should center around of three sets of events:
Because this paper is a first-person narrative, it will not formally analyze the text in the same way that a textual analysis paper would (we'll be doing one of those later). Rather, your analysis of the text will be reflected by how thoughtfully your narrative takes into account some of the various themes that we've been discussing, including Jim Crow and especially the notion of identity - what makes us who we are? Ourselves, or our society?