A Lesson Before Dying is a tale set in the town of Bayonne, Louisiana in the 1990s. A Lesson Before Dying is a heartwarming story about accepting injustice and finding salvation. A Lesson Before Dying is written by a wonderful novelist named Earnest J. Gaines and is one of those great, outgoing novels. Not only is Gaines simple, but Gaines' "A Lesson Before Dying" teaches a number of valuable lessons as the author examines racial injustice and society's inequity towards black people and the inhumane treatment that black people are subjected to. faced in white-dominated society. Ernest Gaines writes from a personal perspective about the repressive ways black people are treated in the,