In A Lesson Before Dying, Jefferson's lawyer resorts to using racist ideas to persuade the jury to spare Jefferson's life.
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The sentences where the lawyer portrays Jefferson as a person devoid of rationality and less intelligent than an animal, underscore the lawyer's racist ideas.

How does the lawyer portray Jefferson?

  • He says Jefferson is a worthless person.
  • He says that Jefferson is st.u.pid and has no mental ability.
  • He claims that pigs are more rational than Jefferson.

The lawyers' words underscore racist stereotypes that white people thought about black people. Although he wants to save Jefferson from execution, he belittles Jefferson and portrays him as something inhuman and unworthy.

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