A Lesson Before Dying. Chapitre 3
1 What had changed.
First of all, the only fact that old black employees come back to ask a favour to their ancient boss is a change. The react of Louis Rougon highlight that. He was seriously shocked. P22 When Miss Emma talked to him “He could not believe what he was hearing”.
According to Grant, others things was changed when he came back again in the Pichot’s house.
First, there is a new maid, called Inez, who serves Mr Pichot, because Miss Emma and Aunt Lou stopped to work for him during the war.
For them and for Grant too, this house had changed a lot, owing to the fact that when they worked here, there was all the Pichot’s family: Henri, his brother and his sister, his nephews, and nieces, and his parents. They worked for them a very long time, but now, there was only Henry who lived in this big house.
Then, when Grant was in the kitchen, he remembered his childhood P18, and saw some items had changed. The old wood-burning had been exchanged for a gas range, there wasn’t icebox no more, and a big white refrigerator had taken its place. It’s not only the fact of modernization which changed that. Grant’s explication is that people who worked for whites, people who cut wood, or haul the ice left plantations. A lot of colored men had gone to the war, and some old black people, as Miss Emma and Lou left white’s houses in the same time.
We can quote black people not only serve whites in their plantations or their houses, they also go and die in European war.

2 What had not changed
In contrast, a lot of things had not changed. To began, Inez, the maid, was a black woman in her forties. Grant saw her as Miss Emma before. She wore same clothes as she did. P18 “Miss Emma wore the same white dress and whites shoes, and the kerchief around her head.” She did exactly the same work as she did, but she’s alone because Henry is alone in his house. When Inez went to told him Miss Emma and others were there, he wanted her to ask