"To hint that he had committed a sex crime was to pronounce the death sentence; it meant a wiping out of his life even before he was captured; it meant death before death came, for the white men who read those words would at once kill him in their hearts" (243).
This quote is significant because it is alot like the qote from 1984, "Thoughtcrime does not entail death, thoughtcrime is death." In this world, committing a sex crime, especially for a black person, is the same thing. It is so because once a white person reads that Bigger committed a sex crime, nothing else matters. Bigger is indefinitely guilty. No longer do little details in the case even matter. Bigger will be found guilty of everything without question because the public already sees him as guilty.
How will Mr. Dalton react to Bigger now that he knows Bigger killed his daughter?
Will Bigger's trial even be a fair one?
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