FREE ESSAY ON A TIME TO KILL

A TIME TO KILL

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.