The Street Lawyer

I read The Street Lawyer a book by John Grisham for summer reading and I liked a lot. The government is necessary in this book because we need the government to make laws to help all these homeless people in the story.

This story happened in D.C common place for lawyer and the main character Michael Brock went to being a street lawyer because a tragic happened in his law firm (Drake &Sweeney). A guy who calls himself Mister broke into Brock’s office and asked them if they donated any of their money to the poor people since all these people had a lot of money and then the SWAT guys shot Mister and Brock who was next to mister got covered in his blood. Though Brock was convinced that Mister didn’t actually intend to hurt anyone, outside the board room where they were held, the world was treating it was a hostage situation and ultimately Mister was killed by a sniper and the lawyer's lives went back to normal. Except for Brock, who discovered that nothing will ever be the same again. Within two weeks Brock had given up the fast track to become a lawyer for street people which he thought he should do. In the process his wife left him and took most of his assets, he lost the Lexus in the event of a car accident when he tried to get to the bottom of Mister's "Who are the evictors?" Brock went against his old friends from the law firm while he tried hard to help other homeless people then he discovered that the old friends of his actually did something really bad to the certain people that he was helping. Hardy and some other people paid their rent for the apartment but they gave it to a guy who said that he would take care of the money but later hardy and a family were kicked out because the lawyers said they didn’t pay rent and threw them on the street that’s how the family died because they were too cold. Brock wanted to fight for these poor people so he began to go to court with this case. During this period he met another woman and they became friends and they helped a drug addict become clean. After a while they won the case and everything went back to normal.

The mean function of the government is that they provide public serves. This government is presented in a negative because the book has lot of things that happened because of the lawyers and the government is responsible for the homeless people; they should make new laws that help the homeless people. The author thinks more people should help the homeless people but it doesn’t mean they have to become street lawyers; instead they should just donate money to help them. The government is presented through the lawyer in the book because the lawyers use the laws to help people. The role of the government in this book is to provide public services in order to help all the homeless and poor people.

I love this book because it has a lot of details, and I think the author’s perceptions and conclusions about government are valid because there are lot of homeless people in this country like Hardy and if we help them some of them can help the Nation more like John Paul DeJoria co-founder and CEO John Paul Mitchell systems, he was homeless then he became a multi-millionaire.