Reflection Of Grant In Ernest Gaines's The Tones

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The tone reflects Grant's moods. In these chapters he feels powerless. He wants to help the people around him but does not know how. This feeling soon makes him bitter and he begins to think about the Christmas program. "Next year it would be the same, and the year after that, the same again. Vivian said things were changing. But where were they changing" (Gaines 151)? He felt that his life was just repetition and this separates him from his happiness. Gaines writes the novel in first person and Grant is still the speaker. He organized these chapters in chronological order with flashbacks to when Grant was comparing the Christmas play when he was younger to the Christmas play his students just performed.
The more Grant visits the jail to