GRRREEAAATTTTT!!!!!!!!!

The book's setting is in a small town in Mississippi. Tonya, one day, went for a walk to the town market to fetch some things for her mother. On her way home, two men pick her up. They take her to the woods and rape her. When they're done the leave her on a bridge, beat up and ready to die. She is later returned to her family by a group of black fishermen. Tonya's father, Carl Lee, decides he needs to get revenge for his daughter. So when they are in court about this whole thing, Carl Lee catches the men in a stairwell ant the courthouse and blows them away with an M-16. The fight now is if Carl Lee is guilty or not. He has to face an all white court (whom are prejudice) and plead not guilty. We'll see what happens

A TIME TO KILL

NICK FRANCISCOPERIOD 2

"A Time to Kill" is John Grisham's first novel. His fluid, detailed storytelling is unlike the choppy first attempts of many modern authors.In a small town in the Deep South, two redneck hooligans rape and maim a ten-year-old black girl. Enraged, the girl's father, Carl Lee Hailey, takes justice into his own hands, killing the two rapists in a courthouse shooting. He seeks the help of defense lawyer Jake Brigance to save him from the gas chamber.

Brigance, a young but sharp lawyer, has to find a way to win an impossible case: a black man is on trial for killing two white men, and his case is being heard by an all-white jury. Adding to the mix are violence between the Ku Klux Klan and the black community, and the fact that, during the shooting, Carl Lee had injured a sheriff's deputy.

When I first read this novel, I was angered and irritated by the depth of hatred that exists within racism. I was angered that had Carl Lee been a white man bent on avenging his daughter's suffering, he would never have had to face trial. The rape of ten year old Tanya, Carl Lee's daughter, by Billy Ray and Pete, A Time to Kill is a disturbing novel, aside from the raping and killing that opens the tale. It is not possible to look at our justice system the same way, especially from the viewpoint of the black community in the South.

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John Grisham is of course my favorite author, and this is the perfect collector's item of sorts because it gives you all of his best books...in audio! If you listen to all his books, it just makes them come more alive and real, and it's just terrific.