A heart touching story for sure because the horror can horrify even the one with a stone heart, ten year old girl gets abused in an inhuman way and thus the case begins. The little black girl had no enmity of any kind and just when she and her father thought that Mississippi was a free state because Martin Luther said so the face the tragedy.
Though the town was dominated by the white people still it was a tragedy that made everyone sad. Everyone knows one thing that the girl was robbed of her innocence by two drunken men and still no one knows who they were.
Then the case is finally filed and Jake Brigance stands from the side of the abuser. Seeing no light in the justice of the court the father of the ten year old girl goes old school. The father thinks that his girl was the victim of this horrifying act because she was black and thus he takes a gun in his hand and looks for his own kind of justice on the streets of the city. John Grisham does not keep the story simple like that of Camino Island and Camino Winds here each scene is tense.
The whole city gets terrorized first by the girl issue and then by the reaction of her father. Scenes associated to the street look so true that they grip the audience for a long time and Michael Beck’s voice does the rest of the trick. No relax moments are provided in the novel which makes it not very advisable if one is looking for a relaxed weekend.
