Grant returns Miss Emma and his aunt to home. He leaves to go to Bayonne. This is the closest town to them. There are approximately 6000 people in Bayonne and the courthouse and jail are located here.

Grant goes to the Rainbow Club, a bar for blacks. The year is 1946 and the white schools, theaters, etc. are located uptown while the black facilities are located at the back of town.

Grant’s girlfriend, Vivian Baptiste, lives in Bayonne. She, too, is a teacher.

The purpose for visiting her is to let her know about being asked to visit Jefferson in jail. He wants someone to agree with him that it’s a stupid idea. However, she is in agreement that he should go.

1. The church is the meeting place for what?

 

2. Why did school only meet 5 ½ months?

 

3. Why does Grant go into such detail about the process by which Jefferson will be killed?

1. "I new, too, which of them would do something for themselves and which of them never would, regardless of what I did." – page 34

 

2. "Other than that, all there was to see were old gray weather-beaten houses, with smoke rising out of the chimneys and drifting across the corrugated tin roofs." – page 37

 

3. "They’re going to kill him in Bayonne. They’re going to sit him in a chair, they’re going to tie him down with straps, they’re going to connect wires to his head, to his wrists, to his legs, and they’re going to shoot electricity through the wires into his body until he’s dead." – page. 39