Witness Argumentative by Melissa

During the book Witness someone shot a little girl's father and killed him. Harvey is guilty of it, on page 29 he  joins the Klan. The Klan is a huge group of racists that do what ever they want. After he joined the clan he was going to trash another man's business; it was so bad that no one came to Harvey's store to buy anything, also on page 92 the doc was refusing to do anything for Harvey, but Harvey then said, "Klan will see to him if he does." He was basically threatening the doc. On page 102, Harvey smashed a bottle and said that it felt good breaking it in his Ku Klux Klan clothes and that he doesn't care if it hurts anyone. Another reason why Harvey is guilty is because Johnny and Merlin did not do it. Johnny is not guilty because he left the Klan on page 113 and wanted to redeem himself with God because he was ashamed of what he had done when he was with the Klan. Merlin also didn't do it; on page 115 Merlin was handed a bottle of poison and was told to dump it in Sutter's well water. Merlin couldn't do it, he refused to take the poison and kill someone. Harvey Pettibone is the man that shot that little girl's father; he doesn't feel pain when he ruins something.