Sexism In A Time To Kill, By John Grisham

The struggles faced by the main characters in A Time To Kill written by John Grisham are faced today by women and African Americans.

In the movie A Time To Kill” There were many people that were horribly racist as sad as that it but I will only be using a few or you 're gonna be here all day. The first person or should i say people i 'm gonna talk to you about Is the Jury. Now the reasons behind this statement is throughout the movie you see the jury conversating about the case even though they are not supposed to and you see them voting over if they think he is guilty or not. They aren 't taking into consideration the reason behind the shooting only thinking about the fact that a black man had shot and had killed two white men. Now this …show more content…
Now the number one sexist person in the whole movie was Harry Rex Vonner. The reasons he is shown as largely sexist is because he is shown as believing women as objects or things for him to take. A direct quote from him when he sees Ellen Roark “ Gotta love the lord for making things like that” and through the first half of the movie you see him talking and making rude comments to ellen the whole time. Another person you find in the movie as sexist is Lucien Willbanks. Now the way he is portrayed as racist is when he meets Ellen Roark he doesn 't take her seriously at all. Instead of seeing what she has to offer to them is just trying to make her become there errand boy. He had eventually realized that she is fairly smart and a good value to their little team. Now the KKK is shown again in this topic due to the fact that they are both sexist in the movie and in reality. In the movie A Time To Kill The KKK had kidnapped Ellen Roark and had stripped her naked and bound her to a cross and had left her to be eaten by wild animals and bugs. I couldn 't hear what they had said to her but it looked angry and insulting so i 'm assuming that it was something horrible. In reality the KKK at first wouldn 't let women join they just had all the women make their costumes and be good little housewives. Due to the fact that they weren 't aloud to join the KKK they made their own mini KKK called “Women of the KKK/ Women 's KKK” they did the same things that the men 's KKK did but in a less violent or aggressive way. Now there was most likely more examples of sexism in the movie but these are the ones I found. Now I have wasted enough of your time so I shall end it here have a nice day and good