A Time to Kill portrays the life of an African American (Carl Lee Hailey) in a stereo typical world of racism. After the rape and beating of his daughter, he takes the law in to his own hands, killing both men involved in the action. He is then convicted for the murder of the two men, also made out to be rednecks. At this period in time, the Klu Klux Klan was still a reality. They attempted many times to assassinate Carl Lee Hailey’s attorney Mr. Jake Tyler Brigance to stop Carl Lee being pronounced innocent in court.
On the other hand, the other movie, Shawshank Redemption takes place in a penitentiary. After Andy Dufresne is proven guilty for the murder of his wife and her lover, how ever he did not commit. It shows the injustice in between inmates. Guards can be bribed and bought for special treatment. Inmates are also beaten sometimes even to death by the guards for little to no reason at all. Although this isn’t the reality now a day it is still a injustice to the men who served time in the past.
My favorite of the two movies was Shawshank Redemtion because I liked the ending; Andy dug his way out with the prospecting axe that his prison brother ‘’Red’’ had said would take 500 years. This was very unpredictable.
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