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A summary: Two white men, Billy Ray Lobb and Pete Williard rape the
10-year-old black girl Tonga. Everybody in the town is upset with the incident
and the two men are found quickly and brought into jail. At the bail hearing
Tonga’s father, Carl Lee Hailey, shoots the two rapists and now the town is
split into two sides. One side understands Carl because a lot of fathers would
have done the same thing in his situation. But the other side that contained
most of the town people want him to be punished in the gas chamber. Jake
Brigance becomes Haile’s lawyer and realizes how complicated it is to deal with
such a famous client. He has ti fight against the District Attorney who wants to
use this trail to get famous.
The case gets national attention and a lot of
different organizations (Like the K.K.K) get involved. After a long trial, Carl
Lee gets free, and everybody goes back to “normal” life in Clanton, Mississippi.
A review for a paper: Time to Kill, one of the best known novels of the last 15
years, is a courtroom drama by John Grisham, set in a small town in southern
Mississippi. Jake Brigance, a young, white lawyer is hired by a murderer of two
rapists who raped his daughter. Sound complicated? It is- the murderer is black
and the rapists are (or were) white. Jake Brigance is given the impossible task
of proving that Carl Lee Hailey, the black murderer, is innocent. Impossible,
because of a mostly white county, because of the Ku Klux Klan which lives again
in Clanton, because of a win-at-all costs prosecutor, because of the racism and
hypocrisy of the Mississippi citizens and judicial system. This book illustrates
how no matter how much the world tries to say they celebrate their diversity or
look past the differences, you have to look no farther than a small Mississippi
town to see how untrue this is.
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