1. A Time To Kill and the American Judicial System
... , no further explaination as to why this phenomenon of de-facto segregation exists is ever given in the novel, it is simply accepted as a part of everyday life. In a similar fashion, the seperation of churches in the district is described in a later chapter. While there is a church called "First United Methodist Church of Clanton" (Grisham 167) that Jake and ... is certainly not limited to the fictional context. While in theory, the jury "should include as widespread a set of community attitudes and biases as possible" (Bell, 348) in oder to minimize the influence of individual prejudice...
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