Post Blog Assignment 5:A Lesson Before Dying Chapter 8&9

1.) Chapter 8 page 63
"There was no freedom here. He said it but he didn't say it. But we felt it. By this Grant means that they felt it because of the way they were treated and the way they had to learn in school. They didn't learn about much. They only learned about flight. The teachers couldn't teach them freedom because the teachers didn't know how it felt to be free themselves.
2.)Chapter 9 page 79
"Go'n jeck switch." Jefferson said. By this he is basically telling them to stop the act that they are putting on and stop pretending like he is not going to die soo. He is acting this way because he really can't take in the fact that he will be dying soon and Miss Emma act as if everything is going to be alright like he is going to live.