A Lesson Before Dying

When does Grant see the butterfly? What does it symbolize?

Located in chapter 31

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Grant notices a yellow butterfly alight on a patch of barren bull grass outside of the school, and intuits that this is Jefferson’s spirit and the execution has already happened.

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