Getting Away With Murder Title Analysis

Significance of the Title The title, Getting away with murder, is significant because it gives the reader a foreshadow as to what happens in the end. African American, Emmett Till's, murderer's are set free based solely on their skin color. The title gives us an insight on how unfair things were in the deep south in 1955. Many blacks lost their lives because they "stepped out of line" The title not only works for this book, and this story, but for all African Americans that were killed during this dangerous and unfair time. Before the Civil Rights Movement, when a was white on trial against a black, the white was always acquitted. At the first glance, the title doesn't have a huge meaning, it's just another book title, but, after reading this book, the title has so much more impact. It gives the reader something to think about. Once the book has been read, and the title is looked at again, all different emotions of anger and confusion bombard the reader. Rather than an first, they thought it was just someone obviously getting away with a crime. Getting Away

Crowe starts out at point blank quoting a local deputy saying, "The body had been swollen to almost twice its normal size; the head had been severely beaten." He then follows with an in-depth description of Till's mutilated body. "One side of the victim's forehead was crushed, an eye had been gouged out, and the skull had a bullet hole just above the right ear. The neck had been ripped raw by the barbed wire wrapped around it. The beatings and three days in the river had turned the face and head into a monstrous mess of sinking flesh." The author did an amazing job describing Till. His words paint a graphic image as to what the poor black boy looked like. His way of explaining Till's injuries makes us feel like we are actually looking down at Emmett's body standing next to the