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The analysis of "The Client" by John Grisham
eager to help. Reggie Love is a really wonderful character, especially because of her troubled past and hopes for the future, she acts in accordance with her life experience. Reggie manages to assure Mark’s and his family’s safety, but not without the help of Mark himself. When Mark finally decides to tell the police everything about his encounter with Jerome Clifford, at first he dares to dig the body of the senator in order to make certain whether it is really in that place where Jerome Clifford has told him. He does not want to lie the police once again if the body is not there and to get into another trouble, but he “succeeds”: “He made a slow turn, then pulled the plastic with his hand. He bolted upright in horror, then slowly placed the light squarely into the decaying face of the late Senator Boyd Boyette.” (pg. 527) Mark’s determination to tell the police the truth, to tell where the body of the senator is, could be rated as a denouement of the novel, leading to a happy end. John Grisham goes for the tear ducts at tale’s end, but he presses too hard: Mark and his family safely leaves the town, still Mark will have to bear the wounds of this scary “adventure” all the rest of his life.
In “The Client”, John Grisham has combined his awareness of timely issues with his ability to weave a tale of intrigue suspense while making the reader laugh out loud. John Grisham can look into the soul of his people and make the reader love or hate them. He knows them inside out, knows the law, as well as his territory and craft. At the end of this book, he even makes the reader cry. This novel by John Grisham is very warm and mesmerising, even pathetic in spite of the long, drawn-out scenes dealing with law. John Grisham’s language is replete with expressions containing the words “ass” and “hell”: “a cute ass”, “a real pain in the ass”, “a pompous ass”, “dumbass”, “crazy as hell”, “guilty as hell”, “to scare the hell out of him”, “bored as hell”. These expressions, as well as expressive similes provide a refreshing relief from the tension and suspense not assisting the reader through all the book, they add some specific savour to the novel: “<...>they sat on their legs like two insects under the brush<...>” (pg. 10), “<...>the eyes were still red and glowed at him like a demon in the dark<...>” (pg. 14), “<...>the fat lawyer lying up there on the car like a dead cow in the middle of the road<...>” (pg. 44), “<...>she was as subtle as a rock trough a window<...> (pg. 154), “<...>he rocked gently on all fours like a lion ready to kill<...>” (pg. 517).
John Grisham’s characters are well fleshed out, complete with flaws and problems, the fears and stereotypes are described so honestly, realistically, and objectively. The story is narrated in the third person, but still the [next page]