Into this section of John Gresham’s The Street Lawyer we have gotten to know our main character Michael
Brock and we have learned about his ideas and outlooks on life. However some of
this seems to be getting quite foggy ever since the scene in the beginning of
the story had occurred where Michael (and seven of the other lawyers at Drake and Sweeny law firm that he had
been currently working with) was held captive by a suicide bomber. Fortunately
(for Michael and the rest of the hostages) the man that played as the “suicide
bomber” happened to be homeless and completely unarmed. Shocking right?! The
homeless, psychotic, completely unarmed, and so called suicide bomber, demanded
himself to be known to his hostages as Mister.
Eventually
the swat team came in and shot and killed Mister. End of the story? No, this is
just the beginning. From those events Michael, being a lawyer, decided to
investigate more on Mister and find out what the heck went on that day and what
was running through his head. Along the way Michael’s relationship fell apart,
he transferred jobs from his fancy well paying job as a “high class” lawyer to become
a street lawyer to help the homeless and the needy, and he also found himself
tied up in a crime that sent him to jail for a few hours.
However
Mister isn’t out of the story yet just because he’s dead, he impacted Michael’s
life. So what do our protagonist Michael and Mister have in common? Well from
my point of view, I see that both these characters are trying to make a
difference for a certain cause and resolve an ongoing harsh conflict. And that
is homelessness. Just before Mister got killed, he was making a speech to his
hostages about what it’s like to be hungry and homeless and how much rich
people are willing to spend on unneeded fancy things. Also, when Michael
switched jobs and turned his life around, he did it because of the impact that
Mister left on him and he himself decided to take Misters speech seriously and
go out to help the homeless.
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