What can I say, this is after all, a classic novel and one that most have heard of, if not read it before in their lifetime.
I enjoyed the story told from childhood and how they fight against the racial discrimination in their conservative community.
It was definitely not just a simple story of the children growing up; as they tell their story but it also shares on the elements of love and values of life in a community which believes in the majority rights and only in what they believe.
It was a difficult place to grow up in but they had the guide of their strict father who was also a lawyer who fought not only for money but also for justice.
He led the family into the target of the town's fury when he took up the case to defend a black man who was accused of raping one of the townsmen's daughter.
Knowing that there is no chance of the black man being freed in this town of white men, he fought will all his might as he know that the black man is innocent and he may have lost the case but he won his children's support and in implanting the right values and attitude in his growing children.
It was a touching novel; once which I shall always remember with the vivid descriptions by the narrators who were the proud children of the just lawyer.
Quote: Lawyers, I suppose, were once children
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