John Grisham has been the author of many novels about lawyers, trials, juries, and courtrooms. Grisham has evolved through this novel, A Painted House depicting the atrocious causes and effects prejudice and disparity have on society during the early 1950 's. Prejudice exists in all countries and cultures, it is merely inevitably.
             Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn't have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. Grisham is indigenous to this novel, both him Luke Chandler, the novel's protagonist grew up near Jonesboro, Arkansas and both dreamed of playing professional baseball for a career ("Grisham" par. 2).
             A Painted House is a story of a seven-year-old Luke Chandler who becomes so inundated in secrets of all kinds. His family picks cotton for a living, and this year, 1952, seems like it will be a perfect harvest, brining more money so that Lukes family can buy their land. But Lukes sterile existence is broken apart when he witnesses a killing and a murder. Luke wishes he had not seen or heard what he did, ergo he was in for petrified fall which he had not planned on (Johnson par. 2 and 4).
             The invention (1793) of the cotton gin, a machine for separating seeds from fiber, and the mechanization of textile production in the industrial revolution enabled cotton to supersede flax and wool textiles. Cotton cultivation became the basis of the one-crop, slave-labor economy of the Deep South and a principal economic cause of the civil war ("cotton" par. 2).
             The system of sharecropping institution arose at the end of the Civil War out of the
             plantation system and throughout much of the 20th century. Many planters had ample land but little money for wages. At the same time m...