The Catholic Church was vocal in their want to be left alone, Bishop John Hughes stated, "I am no friend of slavery, but I am still less friendly to any attempt of foreign origin to abolish". ... Many characters which were presented in the book had some sort of confusion as to where their true loyalty lay. ...
1. INTRODUCTION In 1988, the now-bestselling author and former lawyer John Grisham had his first book published. Entitled "A Time to Kill", the novel presented the story of a small Mississippi town that becomes the scene of a spectacular trial: After two white men rape his daughter, her black father named Carl Lee Hailey shoots them. He then hires the white street lawyer Jake Brigance as his attorney, who also defended his brother in a different case. A wave of racial tension hits the town, with its citizens taking sides, the black community organizing marches and the Ku-Klux-Klan ...
