A Time To Kill
(John Grisham)
If you have ever seen this movie you know what a powerful storyline it is. The book is at time heart wrenching and keeps you on the edge of your seat just waiting to see how it will end. This story takes place in the southern town of Clanton, Mississippi. It begins with the brutal beating and rape of a little black girl by two redneck boys in their early twenties. Once the beating was over they had planned to lynch her but luckily a car came by and scared them so they threw her in the back of their pick up truck and drove around into they found a ditch to throw her in. Of course, the two boys are caught and brought to trial. However, on the day of the trial, fearing that the boys might get off or issued light sentences, Car Lee the little girl?s father waited in the courthouse for the boys (Cobb and Williard and he opened fire on them. This murder trial is about to turn this very southern town into a hotbed of racial tension. Before it is over Jake will have had crosses burned on his front yard, threatened by the Ku Klux Klan, his secretary is threatened, and they burn down his house. By Chapter 26 Grisham introduces a fiery character in the likes of Ellen Roark a law student from Ole Miss who shows up on Jake?s door one day and offers (actually demands) to help him with the law case. In an interesting turn of events the KKK try to take out Jake and instead hit a guardsman. Then they kidnap the law student and tie her naked to a pole. As all of this tension escalates the trial continues, we find out the identities of these Klansman whom are terrorizing Jake, and the verdict is read. Not guilty by reason of insanity. And peace is returned to this little southern town.
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