The Reckoning: A Novel: 25

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The Reckoning: A Novel: 25

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This morning was not the time to discuss it. He was facing an ugly chore, a monstrous deed, one that could not be avoided or postponed any longer. I suppose.” He had toyed with the idea of warning his sister of what was to come, but she would react badly, beg him not to do it, become hysterical, and they would fight, something they had not done in years. The killing would change her life dramatically, and on the one hand he pitied her and felt an obligation to explain. But on the other, he knew that it could not be explained, and attempting to do so would serve no useful purpose.

Why would a ­World War II hero, a prominent citizen inthe small town of Clanton, Mississippi, walk into his church in 1946 and coldly pump three bullets into the popular Methodist minister, a family friend? Grisham can come up with a story...that isn't a problem. He can create suspicion and suspense. Great. But the problem I've had with this book and with the one I read last week, is the writing. There is so much telling. He explains everything. It feels like he sees the scene in his head, and writes exactly what he sees. Nothing more. Nothing less. That is why I'm having a problem with the characters. They feel like cardboard....like they are in a painting and I'm trying to guess, who they really are, what they are thinking and feeling, etc. Quincy was tried, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison, maintaining his innocence. But no one was listening. He had no lawyer, no advocate on the outside. In desperation, he writes a letter to Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit run by Cullen Post, a lawyer who is also an Episcopal minister. The first part – Act I if you will – tells the story of Pete Banning’s return from the Philippines, an acclaimed war hero, a successful cotton farmer, and a prosperous landowner, well known and greatly respected in his church and around his small southern community. Then, out of the blue, he walked into the church and calmly murdered the Reverend Dexter Bell. If he had a motive, he wasn’t saying and he was obviously prepared to face hanging or the electric chair before he would tell anyone the reason he felt that Dexter Bell deserved to die.En la primera "Asesinato", nos narra como Pete Banning, decide asesinar al pastor metodista de su localidad. Tras el asesinato vendrán la detención y el juicio. He won’t listen.” Pete took a bite of his omelet. “I just want him to hurry up and graduate. I’m tired of paying tuition.”

The thought that this could be their last meal together was difficult to comprehend, but then most things that morning were being done for the last time. The story takes place in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, in Grisham's Ford County. It is the seventh Grisham novel to take place here, following A Time to Kill, The Summons, The Chamber, The Last Juror, Sycamore Row, and A Time for Mercy. Near the courthouse square he parked in front of the post office and watched the foot traffic come and go. He wished to avoid people he knew, or those who might know him, because after the killing any witnesses were apt to offer such banal observations as “I saw him and he seemed perfectly normal,” while the next one might say, “Bumped into him at the post office and he had a deranged look about him.” After a tragedy, those with even the slightest connections to it often exaggerate their involvement and importance.Me ha gustado mucho la ambientación en ese Mississippi rural de los años cuarenta del pasado siglo. Refleja a la perfección el tema de los prejuicios raciales. Clanton es una localidad en la que casi nunca se ha cometido un crimen. En palabras de sus policías, alguna pelea y el linchamiento de un chico negro, pero claro eso no cuenta, no era ilegal colgar a un chico de color en esa época. Por muy sabido que lo tengamos leerlo así de crudo te deja helada. Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. It is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. Para mí, que he leído muchísimas novelas de Grisham, esta es una de las más complejas y conseguidas de toda su obra. El autor nos lleva de nuevo a su Mississippi rural de finales de los 40, concretamente a Clanton. Allí, un héroe de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y hacendado recolector de algodón asesina, sin motivo aparente, y a la vista de suficientes testigos, al pastor de la iglesia metodista de su localidad, con el que además la familia compartía una hermosa amistad. Sabe que lo van a condenar a la silla eléctrica, salvo que explique el porqué de su crimen, en cuyo caso le podrían conmutar la pena a cadena perpetua. Sabe que le está buscando la ruina a su familia, que depende del negocio algodonero para seguir con sus prósperas vidas. Sabe que el respeto que todos sus vecinos le profesan se va a convertir en odio. Sabe que va a dejar huérfanos a la esposa del pastor y a sus tres hijos, con pocas posibilidades de supervivencia. Sabe que tan solo tiene que decir por qué lo ha hecho, y a pesar de ello, elige el silencio y la silla eléctrica. When Florry was finished with her birds, she came in the rear door, said good morning to her brother, and sat across from him. There were no hugs, no affection. To those who knew them, the Bannings were thought to be cold and distant, devoid of warmth and rarely emotional. This was true but not intentional; they had simply been raised that way. I would say that this might have been one of the more forgettable Grisham novels if not for Part 2, where we are taken to the war hero's experiences as a participant in the Battle of Bataan and subsequent stint as a prisoner of war in the Philippines. The book turned into straight up historical fiction then, told through Pete's sufferings and survival tactics.



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