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The analysis of "The Client" by John Grisham
what the world is coming to, whether there is something sacred left or not. Nevertheless, this little brave man, Mark Sway, is a child of great fortitude, the feeling that his life is hanging by a thread does not abate his tenacity. Fair mixed with curiosity about the man’s, the lawyer’s, behaviour inspires Mark to help him again even in the presence of death, however, all Mark’s efforts are futile, even his attempt to affect the drunk and disillusioned lawyer psychologically brings no results. Mark does not succeed in saving Jerome Clifford’s life: “He (Jerome Clifford) opened his lips and bit the barrel with his big, dirty teeth. He closed his eyes, and pulled the trigger with his right thumb.” (pg. 27)
Two boys watch this scene in muted horror. How can little children react after having witnessed such a hideous scene - a man blowing off his brains by his own will? Such moments can change everything, Oscar Wilde was right saying that a moment can ruin your life, especially if a person does not feel when to recede, when to close his eyes. Mark is strong, but his brother Ricky can not bear the effects of this event: consequently, he goes into shock and his health deteriorates with every minute.
Mark manages to escape death, to save his own life, but, unfortunately, he ruins his future. After this encounter he will have to carry a heavy burden of somebody else’s confession, the bloody secret, too heavy even for such a mature child as Mark. While sitting in the car, the self-murderer confides a secret, the reason of his suicide to Mark - where the dead body of the senator Boyd Boyette is hidden. To divulge it is the only intent of the FBI and police, and to disguise it is the only aim of the Mafia. Only few people knew that deadly secret - the Mafia and their lawyer Jerome Clifford, and now there is one little person who should have never discovered it. Since this moment Mark Sway has been caught between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer desperate to conceal his crime.
In the world where vices dominate and impious people reign, it is better to be good and benign imperceptibly, but Mark can not watch the man killing himself without endeavouring to stop him, and naturally he is not as callous as to leave the dead body desperately lying in the woods without calling 911, aware that in such a way he will give himself away. Mark meddles into a huge web of truth and lie, crime and justice, reality and life previously seen only in films. Scared to death, without any clue what to do next, especially after having told a lie to the police (Mark said that when they found the body, the man had already been dead) the child is at a loss. And as soon as a single imprudent word is said, a person is suspected to be a liar, an obstruction [next page]