"A Time to Kill" by John Grisham

Gliederung

• Author
• Story
• General informations
• Characters
• Jake Brigance
• Carl Lee Hailey
• Plot
• Interpretation

Author

John Grisham, a lawyer and former hobby-writer published his first novel, 'A Time to Kill' in 1989. He began writing it in 1984 just three years out of law school. The seed of 'A time to kill' was a brutal rape of a young girl near Grisham's home in Mississippi. He visualised how he would kill the rapist if he would have been the father of the girl, and he became obsessed with the question what a jury of ordinary people would do to such a father. He guessed that there would naturally be a great sympathy to the father, but he did not know if that would be enough for an acquittal.
This question was enough stuff for him, to write a novel, and so he started to write the first chapter. After three years he had written a whole book about a fictional story like this. The story was published and sold well in Mississippi, but it was neglected by the rest of the world. Only when he published his second novel, 'The firm' he became

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