A Lesson Before Dying

Why is the setting so important in A Lesson Before Dying?

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The truths that come out in this story would not happen if it weren't for the time period and setting of the story. It takes place during a time in the South when the Jim Crowe laws were in force...segregation was the law of the land and the main characters are African American.