Trouble in July
The story starts off with the Sheriff of Julie County answering a knock on the door. He finds out from his deputy, that a lynch mob is forming in Flowery Branch. A young white woman, Katy Barlow, is accusing a young Black boy, Sonny Clack, of rape. Sonny Clark is afraid for his life and does not know what to do. After the accusation, many of Sonny's neighbors in the Black section of Flowery Branch are afraid to talk to him, because they are worried that they will be killed right along with him. Sheriff McCurtain, however does not really care where Sonny Clack lives or dies. But he is concerned about the fate of another Black man, Sam Brinson. When several members of the lynch mob raid the jail looking for Sonny Clark and take Brinson captive instead, Sheriff McCurtain goes looking for Sam. Many of these peoples share one thing in common, they all are afraid of losing something. For example, the Sheriff was scared that if he got involved in the case, he would not be elected for Sheriff next year. Without his elected post, he has no way to support him and his wife. So when something happens, he p
Sam tells him that he was chased around, tied to a back of a car and drag all over. When they found Sonny they let him go. Sam showed the Sheriff where they found Sonny, but when they got there, Sonny was hanging from a tree. While they were all looking at Sonny, Kathy runs out from the bush that Sonny did not do it. But it was too late. She tells everyone that Sonny did not do it, that Mrs. Narcissa Calhoun told her to say it. The mob then turns on her and they all throw stones at her. The Sheriff try's to stop it but before he got to her, she was dead. He looks at what just happen and hope that this will end the lynching for all time. After reading this book, I have gotten to know how it was like to live back then. Knowing that you were innocent and everybody you trust does not want anything to do with you, which is got to be hard. This book is very interesting to read and gets you wondering what will happen to Sonny. The ending to this book is a shock to me, because how Sonny decides to turn himself in even though he knows what is going to happen to him. acks his stuff and heads out of town to a fi
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Approximate Word count = 756
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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