A Time To Kill—One Of My Favorite Books | #FeedMe

I read my first John Grisham's book—A Time To Kill when I was about 16 years old.

I could say that this book found me. I was rummaging the bookshelves of my brother's father-in-law who happens to be a politician/lawyer. I was actually looking for a book that would pacify my restlessness and I almost gave up because the books that was on display are something that I really have no interest in.

I was about to go out of the room when suddenly I tripped over this book as if it is its way of saying, "Please read me!" —and so I did.

From then on John Grisham has been one of my favorite authors.

A Time To Kill, has touched my heart in a way its story has never left my mind. I'll never forget how I've been part of the story just by simply reading it.

• I was devastated that I can't help Tonya Hailey, the 10 year-old girl who was raped and beaten by two chauvinistic pigs, James "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb.
• My heart was so happy when Carl Lee Hailey, Tonya's father, killed those rapist with an M-16 (I was secretly hoping that I was there to help him pull the trigger.)
• I was also there sitting nervously in the courtroom for every trial.
• I was shouting inside my head as if I can warn Jake Brigance, an attorney who helps and represents Carl Lee Hailey with his criminal case, from evil plans of Freddy, Billy Ray's brother and also from the racist, ultra-conservative, supremacist Ku Klux Klan.
• I cried so hard when Carl Lee was prosecuted by Rufus Buckley, a corrupt district attorney who hopes that the case will boost his political career.

And I can forget how the story truly influenced me to do and persevere in whatever it is that I think is right, even if I loss everything along the way. Just like what Jake Brigance did.

So yes. I am recommending this book for you to read. Let me know your thoughts about it.

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“Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, and I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.”

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“With murder, the victim is gone, and not forced to deal with what happened to her. The family must deal with it, but not the victim. But rape is much worse. The victim has a lifetime of coping, trying to understand, of asking questions, and the worst part, of knowing the rapist is still alive and may someday escape or be released. Every hour of every day, the victim thinks of the rape and asks herself a thousand questions. She relives it, step by step, minute by minute, and it hurts just as bad.
Perhaps the most horrible crime of all is the violent rape of a child. A woman who is raped has a pretty good idea why it happened. Some animal was filled with hatred, anger and violence. But a child? A ten-year-old child? Suppose you're a parent. Imagine yourself trying to explain to your child why she was raped. Imagine yourself trying to explain why she cannot bear children.”

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