How Does Carl Lee Get Justice In A Time To Kill

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How exactly far would a parent go to keep their children safe and protect them from the bad in the outside world? In the novel A Time to Kill, by John Grisham, an african american man, Carl Lee, takes matters into his own hands in order to protect his very young daughter, Tonya. Carl Lee has murdered the men that had messed with his daughter and is now on trial due to livid actions. For parents in a situation like this, they will never feel the full justice needed. Can matters take a wrong turn or will they look up for the justice needed for the family? Carl Lee did what he had to do to protect his daughter and even the rest of his family, I believe that he deserves justice for his actions even though he could have handled it a whole lot better. The two men, Billy Ray Cobb and Willard raped and tortured Carl Lee’s daughter, Tonya, and left her to die. Carl Lee didn’t think that justice would be served to the two men that hurt his little girl because they were white and he and his family were black so he put justice in his own hands. Fear and anger rose above him and he took a military grade weapon from the Vietnam War and Carl Lee Hailey gunned down those two men. As written on page 91, “When Cobb reached the second step from the floor, and willard was three steps behind, and Looney was …show more content…

Carl Lee Hailey sprang from the darkness with an M-16. At point-blank range he opened fire.” His

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