Movie a Time to Kill Term Paper

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Communication

Time to Kill

The main conflict in A Time to Kill is not the conflict in the courtroom; it is the conflict between black and white, good and evil. Character Jake Brigance's impassioned defense of murderer Carl Lee Hailey shows this when he says to the jury, "Now imagine she's white" (A Time to Kill), after describing her rape in vivid detail. Clearly, there is more here than the black white conflict. At the core of the movie is right and wrong, and when is a person justified in using force to solve a problem.
Both main characters employ many elements of style and communication throughout the film to arrive at a successful final outcome - Carl Lee's innocence. Carl Lee is an intelligent man who adopts an accepted social style for black men - less intelligent than he really is. Jake is a young lawyer with a big case, and he employs an emotional and impassioned style in the courtroom to convince the jury of Carl Lee's right to take the law into his own hands. Their communication styles are not the same as they are….....

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