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The analysis of "The Client" by John Grisham
hero, to his mind it is inhuman to commit suicide, and it is even more inhuman to watch the person killing himself and do nothing about it. Mark gives credence to the fact that there is always another way out from critical situations, and he is right in a way. One feeling stays with a person till his last day - hope. You can mock and laugh at it, but it will wander docilely in the maze of your mind. Mark considers it to be his duty to stop that man from making a crucial step in his life, Mark’s little heart is full of hope and humanism, despite the fact that this feature of his puts him into immense peril, imminent danger, but Mark risks. He does not want to feel guilty for the rest of his life for not having stopped the man from committing suicide. Little persons, i.e. children, can do a lot of noble deeds or just attempt to do them. Young age is not an obstacle for being courageous. Mark dares at least to try to help Jerome Clifford to abandon the idea of death: “I’m trying to save his life, okay? Maybe, just maybe, he’ll see that this is not working, and maybe he’ll decide he should wait or something.” (pg. 10) This courage and kind-heartedness will cost him a lot of sleepless nights and unsafe days, when danger lurks in every shadow... Yes, it is appalling to commit suicide - that inconceivable act of violence against the unknown, the act which in some aspect kills a person’s soul, but it is the only way out for that man, Jerome Clifford, his hope has died, it has taken the wrong turn and lost its way in the complicated maze of sub-consciousness. This man is a lawyer, but a cunning and corrupt one, completely willing to buy people who can be bought: “He drank with judges and slept with their girlfriends. He bribed the cops and threatened the jurors (...). Jerome Clifford was as crooked and sleazy as his clients, and if they got blood on them he wanted to see it.” (pg. 35). A man faces many cross-roads in lifetime, one path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other - to total extinction. Unfortunately, Jerome Clifford did not have enough wisdom to make the right choice and eventually it led him to death, to the worst form of death - suicide. But how can the person be so mean and callous as to put the child, who tried to save his life, into peril, to wish him die together while the Cadillac they are sitting in fills up with carbon monoxide? The fact that he was drunk and crazy about the idea of killing himself does not justify him. It is virtually true that the law is a bottomless well, it drowns person’s benevolence. Even more, such man’s inhumanity towards a fellow-man makes the reader shudder and gives a cause for reflection on what [next page]