Inferences as they pertain to books are whereby you take an educated guess as what will happen in the book or novel. The book that I am currently reading is called A Lesson Before Dying a novel by Ernest J. Gaines based on the old South, how the people were treated and the death penalty.
The setting is in a small Cajun community and the two main characters are that of Grant Wiggins an educated black man who returned from University and whom can only get a job as a teacher. Jefferson the man who is put on trial for murders he did not commit and who is waiting for the death penalty, he thinks that he is not human but an animal. Wiggin’s role is to teach Jefferson how to be a man again.
In this novel there are several places that you can make inferences however I made my inference in the middle of the novel in which I feel that you can start to see Wiggins change. “‘He’s got just over a month, April eighth.’ ‘April eighth,’ I said to no one. ‘April eighth’. ‘Friday, April eighth, between noon and three,’ the sheriff said. “Between non and three.” I said to no one.” (157). This quote demonstrates the slow change in Wiggins. Due to this quote I made the inference that in teaching Jefferson how to be a man Wiggins will change and become a better man than who he was in the beginning of the novel. The mumbling of the words “to no one” shows how deeply affected he is to the situation at hand. He is also unconsciously expressing emotion that he suppressed in the beginning of the novel. He begins to care for Jefferson and as such he unlocks the part of him that allows him to truly be a man.