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The analysis of "The Client" by John Grisham
and pretending that they care, that it is really painful for them. But where were they when the young homeless mother with four children needed home, warmth, bread, love, care? Nobody was around then, nobody paid any attention to them. But maybe we can apply here a well-known saying that you appreciate somebody or something only after having lost them? Maybe…
With each episode of the thriller the writer manages to hit the reader harder and harder, the compassion for the poor rises with each page you turn. More and more you wish to jump up and run to the nearest church to put some money into the tins of poor people. You want to protect and help all of them, but it is impossible. You can not saddle yourself, you can not do everything alone. Even more you can not trust the highest power - the law. Very often judges and lawyers are responsible for other people’s pain. Michael Brock has chosen law business because of the belief that with law he will fight injustice and social ills, alleviate people’s sufferings, and do sorts of other great things. He is an idealist and he will remain such all his life, only he can not put his ideals into life at “Drake & Sweeney”. Its clients are only “pompous asses” (pg. 261), the help they need from the lawyers is inane, arrogant, a question of honour. And street people need a real help. They are suffering, and as a street lawyer Michael Brock has to confront that pain, to face death every day. He has to put up with it, but can not become indifferent. If it happens, everything will be over. If you do not feel anything, you will be never able to facilitate such people’s reality. You have to undergo that nightmare existence of the homeless living under the bleak sky, to feel it yourself. It is painful, but it is the only way. And Michael Brock even starts hating himself for experiencing the pain of others so deeply: “The world was shutting down, nothing made sense. (…) I cursed Mister for derailing my life. I cursed Mordecai for making me feel guilty. And I cursed Ontario for breaking my heart.” (pg. 93). But on the other hand, an excruciating experience lets Michael Brock easily, without any hesitation say goodbye to millions he has been earning for seven years at the “sweatshop” of “Drake & Sweeney” and go to defend the rights of people who can not stand for themselves. For Michael Brock it is a delight to help the ones, who need support, not those wealthy disgruntled clients who are coming into his office at “Drake & Sweeney” with their futile problems. They pay millions to win the case while there are people whose problems are vital but who have no money to pay for a lawyer. They have no alternatives, they live in the unsafe world, created by people who have everything. And Michael Brock manages to find [next page]