Grant Wiggins Timeline and Summary

Grant gets roped into visiting Jefferson at jail because he's Jefferson's former teacher.
He is angry about the whole deal, but he visits Jefferson along with Miss Emma.
Tricked into visiting Jefferson alone, Grant witnesses a sad scene: Jefferson acting like a hog in his cell.
Grant introduces his girlfriend, Vivian, to his aunt, to a less than warm reception. (Although it could be worse.)
The schoolchildren present their Christmas program, even though their teacher is not really a devout kind of a guy.
After Jefferson's execution date is set, Grant has his first good visit with the kid. He promises to buy him a radio.
Grant goes out and borrows the money to buy the radio and takes it back to Grant.
He tries to talk Jefferson into being a hero and proving wrong the idea of white people's superiority over black people.
After a good visit, when he brings Jefferson a notebook to write in, Grant is thrilled but ends up in a barroom brawl because of some people talking smack about Jefferson in the Rainbow Club.
Grant refuses to attend the execution, but he waits outside on the day of Jefferson's death and sees a butterfly that, for him, tells him that it is over.