Quotations

              A Lesson before dying  chapter 3

        "If you say so, Mr Henri".
          "I say so," he said.

       The quote and the conversation at this point of the book shows that seperate but equal is not really equal. She has to beg Henri to do a simple task for her. Even though sge served his family for a long time. When grant did not say sir to Henri he gave him a funny look because he knows he gas a certain dominance over them.
                             Chapter 4
     "Now his godmother wants me to visit him and make him know----prove to these white men---- that he's a man . Im supposed to make him a man. Who am I? God?"

      Grant does not have a idea of how to make jefferson a man. Which is one of the reasons he does not really want to do it. Also he knows that it will be hard for him to change the minds of the white men prespective of him