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Vision Quote of the Day


Ernest Gaines, <i>A Lesson Before Dying</i>

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Ernest Gaines

A Lesson Before Dying

I have about 15 different characters who speak, narrate in A Gathering of Old Men. I think there are 15 of them, and I had to get -- some way I had to distinguish 15 different voices. I had to give each one of those voices different little characteristics, little nuances, each one needed to have, whether it was a small boy, Snookum, who was about -- I suppose Snookum must be about eight years old or nine -- to people who were 80 years old. I had several 80- or 70-year-old men in there. I have two educated white women, Candy as well as Miss Merle. How would I distinguish those two voices, difference in those two voices? I have a sheriff, a big sheriff in there. How'd I get his voice down? Then I have a little skinny deputy, his little deputy, I had to get his voice down. Then I had a minister who used a lot of religious terms, and another older lady who used a lot of religious terms. How do I distinguish those two voices? So I think it's only through having lived in Louisiana and coming from such a place, because there we have so many different -- we have several different dialects in my part of Louisiana. I come from Cajun, Creole, and of course both Creole black (and) Creole white there in Louisiana. I attended a Catholic school there for a little while. I knew the Baptist religion. My folks are Baptist. So you know, I draw from these experiences.
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