Essay About Main Characters And Witness Protection Program

The Client by John Grisham
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The Client
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The Client by John Grisham takes place in Memphis, Tennessee. It starts out with a
little boy, named Mark and his brother sneaking into the woods to try and smoke
cigarettes. While in the woods, they witness a man kill himself. But before he does so,
this man tells Mark some very important secrets, which ends up putting Mark and his
entire family at risk of being hurt. This event ends up putting Marks brother in a coma.
There are lawyers who keep on pressuring Mark to tell these things that he is not
supposed to know, except that the Mafia threatens to kill Mark and his family if they
tell the truth. This is because the secret is that the Mafia killed a Senator and buried
him in their lawyers garage, and the lawyer is the person who commits suicide.
Since Mark didnt confess to the lawyers, he is put in jail until he admits this secret.
This is where he hires a lawyer named Reggie Love for the fee of one dollar. He
eventually escapes for jail and figures that the only way to really know if this is true or
not is if he goes and sees it himself. It is a coincidence though that the Mafia decides
to do the same thing. Mark and Reggie end up finding the body, and the mob finds
them. Mark and Reggie escape unharmed from the Mafia, and strike a deal with the
district attorney. It is that they will tell them where the body is, if they agree to put
them in a witness protection program, which is what they end up doing. Mark and his
family move to Arizona, and everything ends up being okay.
One of the main characters in this book is Mark Sway, a little ten-year-old boy. He is
strong willed, you can tell this because he keeps on going through all of this turmoil. He
also seems to be really smart, and he speaks like someone whos a lot older than
ten-years-old.
Another main character is Roy Foltrigg. He is the district attorney in the story. He has a
really big ego, and it seems like hes lazy. He always has a team of lawyers who do
everything for him, while he takes all of the credit. He seems like a typical man of
politics.
I feel that I didnt really learn too much from this book. But what I did learn is how
much witnessing a crime or knowing about a crime can affect your life. I never knew
what kind of power that the mob can have over peoples lives. It was interesting to
learn this, and it makes me feel lucky that nothing like that has ever happened to me.