Getting Away With Murder Title Analysis

Significance of the Title
The title, Getting away with murder, is significant because it gives the reader a foreshadow as to what happens in the end. African American, Emmett Till's, murderer's are set free based solely on their skin color. The title gives us an insight on how unfair things were in the deep south in 1955. Many blacks lost their lives because they "stepped out of line" The title not only works for this book, and this story, but for all African Americans that were killed during this dangerous and unfair time. Before the Civil Rights Movement, when a was white on trial against a black, the white was always acquitted. At the first glance, the title doesn't have a huge meaning, it's just another book title, but, after reading this book, the title has so much more impact. It gives the reader something to think about. Once the book has been read, and the title is looked at again, all different emotions of anger and confusion bombard the reader. Rather than an first, they thought it was just someone obviously getting away with a crime. Getting Away

With Murder, has a strong title that captivates the reader, making them want to read the book. Concrete Detail/ Imagery
This novel has great levels of imagery. The author Chris Crowe uses many descriptive adjectives which gives the reader a clear picture in their head about a setting or a character.
An important image the author creates for the reader is Emmett Till once he is found in the river three days after his murder.

Crowe starts out at point blank quoting a local deputy saying, "The body had been swollen to almost twice its normal size; the head had been severely beaten." He then follows with an in-depth description of Till's mutilated body. "One side of the victim's forehead was crushed, an eye had been gouged out, and the skull had a bullet hole just above the right ear. The neck had been ripped raw by the barbed wire wrapped around it. The beatings and three days in the river had turned the face and head into a monstrous mess of sinking flesh." The author did an amazing job describing Till. His words paint a graphic image as to what the poor black boy looked like. His way of explaining Till's injuries makes us feel like we are actually looking down at Emmett's body standing next to the

sheriff.
Another example of imagery in this novel was the setting Money, Mississippi. Crowe has a certain way with words which make you feel like your actually sitting in the middle of Money, Mississippi during the mid 1950's. "Money was a tiny rural community on the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta... population fifty-five, wedged between the railroad tracks and Old Money Road, had never lived up to its name." When the author gives the us this description, it is easy to imagine a small country town in the middle of nowhere. He goes on to say, "It's main reason for existence was its cotton gin, a large corrugated metal building that housed the equipment used to process harvested cotton." Money, Mississippi was a large producer in cotton, and this was the only reason that this town stayed occupied. Crowe says that Money is home to few businesses, a gas station and Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market, the store where Emmett got himself into trouble on that fateful summer day. The town had a few homes and sharecroppers shacks. These homes and shacks divided the cotton crops. When the author tells us that the fields are divided by homes it creates a clear picture in the readers head. They see a small, almost non existent, crop town with few people to tend to crops and occupy the homes and shacks. This small town had "No city parks or baseball fields, no movie theaters or dance halls, no restaurants or department stores." It had heavy air, and lots of bugs flying around the air. All in all, the author creates the image of a small town, with nothing much in it besides a few stores, crops, and a low number of houses and shacks.