Comparing To Kill A Mockingbird with A Time To Kill

To Compare and Contrast the novel To Kill A Mockingbird with the Visual Text A Time To Kill.
By Denise Kara

Harper Lee s classic novel To Kill A Mockingbird can be easily linked to John Grishams A Time To Kill. Beside the sixty year gap between the two texts, there are very many comparisons that can be made between the two stories.

Set in Canton, Mississippi in the mid-nineties, A Time To Kill is a cynical update of To Kill A Mockingbird, the 1963 film set in the 1930's, Maycomb, Alabama. Both texts take place in the Deep South were racism was strong. The crimes were similar to each other. Rape was a key issue in both A Time To Kill and To Kill A Mockingbird. Tom Robinson, To Kill A Mockingbird, is wrongfully convicted of raping a white woman and is put on trial for the crime. In A Time To Kill, Tonya Hailey, a ten-year old coloured girl, is raped by two white, beer-swilling rednecks, beaten, hung and then to cover up their crime, her body was thrown off a bridge. Tonya's father...