This shows that members of the majority population in the county will receive better and more understanding treatment than those of other races. With a little luck I could get an all-white jury, which will naturally be sympathetic”(60). This can be seen in the text when the main character Jake Brigance says, “I’m white and this is a white county. Furthermore, the town’s racist nature can be seen through the preferential treatment of white citizens. This reveals that the townspeople are racist individuals due to their great reluctance to elect a member of the minority population to a greater position. This is evident in the text when the author writes, “Not since Reconstruction had a black sheriff been elected in a white county in Mississippi” (11). To continue, the setting is described a racist environment through reference to the town’s history. This quote shows that the author uses diction to inform the readers that setting has a white majority. I didn't know, however, that it was based on a novel by John Grisham (I've never read it, and I have doubts if it was translated into Portuguese), and based very lightly on the emotional testimony of a young girl victim of rape. I saw this film not long ago and was very impressed with its quality. This can be seen in the text when Grisham writes, “Ford County was seventy-four percent white”(11). It's a good movie, but I've seen better courtroom dramas. To begin, the author explicitly states that the novel’s setting is in a predominantly white environment. While little is said to describe the timeframe in which the novel “A time to kill” (John Grisham) takes place, it is easy to see that the story occurs in a racist, primarily white town in Mississippi.
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