![]() Talk about the role of court testimony by psychiatrists? How credible.or non-credible are they?ġ7. What is later revealed about Tonya? Has she recovered from her ordeal?ġ6. What about Reverend Agee, who collects donations for the Hailey fund? Is he fair?ġ5. Talk about the various decisions that Jake Brigance makes throughout the book? Are they ethical? Is Jake ethical?ġ4. What does Brigance reveal about himself during the New York Times interview?ġ3. How does Brigance's respond to Ethel's concern about the phone calls? What does this reveal about his state of mind?ġ2. Why does Brigance liken him to Ichabod Crane?ġ1. How do he and Jake Brigance compare with one another-in their beliefs, motivations and in the way they approach the law? Now compare Omar Noose. What do lawyers fight for-according to Chapter 10?ġ0. How different are they? Do they have anything in common?ĩ. Talk about the three families: the Haileys, Cobbs and Willards. Why does Brigance hang a portrait of William Faulkner in his office? What does Faulkner represent to him? And what is implied by the fact that, as Brigance notices, no streets or buildings are named after Grant or Lincoln?Ĩ. Why does Jake Brigance decide to take Carl Lee Hailey's case? What, according to Brigance, would a similar case normally cost?ħ. Why does Carl Lee Hailey shoot Cobb and Willard? What are the chances that the two men would have been convicted and sentenced? What were your feelings when Hailey shot them?Ħ. What role does race play in the way the townspeople respond?Ĥ. Talk about the town's reaction to Tonya's rape. Why did Tonya envision her father running "desperately" through the woods?ģ. How would you describe Sheriff Ozzie Walls?Ģ.
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