While reading A Lesson Before Dying, I was able to put myself in Grant’s shoes and understand why he felt angry and also frustrated. Since he was educated he almost represented the town or neighborhood he lived in. He was given all these responsibilities that came with his education. Since he was educated people had expectations from him and thought he had acquired the knowledge of everything. Even though he was a teacher Miss Emma and his aunt made him a counselor for Jefferson or a so called psychiatrists without realizing that Grant was not knowledgeable of how to handle something like that because he was simply a teacher. There was so much pressure on him and he was ‘forced’ to do things like counsel Jefferson without his consent and people felt it was his ‘job’ to do it. I can completely relate to this situation because as a first generation college student there are many career expectations my family has for me. It’s like educating me is for their benefit more than my own. Since I will be educated I will be able to take care of all their legal issues or other problems which I probably have no knowledge about whatsoever. Already because I am the most educated so far in my family I am expected to tutor other kids in my family who are struggling in school even though I am not good at it and also I have to figure out tax forms for my family as well even though I am not even educated about it. Their high expectations thinking that only because I went to school I should know everything is not fair. It’s not fair to anyone and I think that is exactly how Grant felt and so do I.