The Street Lawyer

The book "The Street Lawyer" by John Grisham is about a lawyer named Michael Brock who worked for a large firm in D.C. One day, Michael and several other lawyers were taken hostage by a homeless man with a gun. The man did not kill anyone, but he did something worse. Before he was killed by the S.W.A.T. team, he reminded them how selfish they had been. Together, they made over three million dollars, and yet none of it had been given to help poor people, such as the attacker himself. The homeless man didn't kill anyone, but he scarred them.

John Grisham wrote his story in a unique way. First, he started writing as if the attack was just starting. But then, he writes as if it had already happened. Then he goes back again. He just keeps switching back and forth. I think John Grisham did this for a reason. I think he did it to emphasize his message. It really makes his story more interesting.

Grisham has a good message in his story. He shows how some people even make millions of dollars each year yet they don't give to those who make a lot less than that. He reveals a big social injustice in the world around us: greediness. If no person in the world was greedy and everybody shared what they had, the world would be a lot better place.

I think that Grisham did an amazing job with his story. He really made it interesting while he introduced a big issue in the world. He empowers people to give and not to be greedy. He showed people how they should help and what to do. He really changed my way of thinking.

The Lorax

"The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss is a children's book that teaches children to respect the environment in a kid-friendly manner. He does this by making the story rhyme. Also, it is based on a made-up world with made-up animals. He give these animals wacky names and gives them fake characteristics. For example, the fish get out of their pond and walk away.

In the story, a man finds a world that has a lot of fluffy trees called truffula trees. Lots of animals live there. The Lorax is an imaginary animal that represents all of them. The man cuts down the trees to make clothing out of their fluffy tops. The Lorax asks him multiple times to stop but he doesn't. Eventually, all of the animals start to leave because the business has destroyed their habitat. When the last truffula tree is cut down, the Lorax leaves, too. In the end of the story, the man is old and he gives the last trruffula seed to a child. This shows that the book is calling the children to action stop hurting the environment.

This connects to the real world because in the past, there used to be a lot of nice places such as forests, jungles, and lakes. Now, just like the man did in the book, people are destroying these fantastic environments to build factories and to mass produce items. When this happens, trees are cut down, animals are turning extinct, and water, pollution is happening. In the story, the air is smogged, the water is dirty, the trees are gone, and the animals left. Thhis shows how the world is in a perspective of an imaginary wolrd.

A Painted House

In the book "A Painted House" by John Grisham, people of different races are treated differently. This might have to do with the fact that it is the 1950's. As everyone knows, people were treated differently in the past based on their race. But in this story, black people are being beaten up. Also, the mexicans and the black people are being treated as dirt. They have to work for a living by picking cotton. They earn one dollar and sixty cents for each one hundred pounds of cotton they pick. The mexicans arrived to the farm in one small truck. There were 60 of them crammed in a little truck.

In the story, the women seemed disgraced at the way these poeple were being treated. For example, when the mexicans arrived in the crammed little truck, Luke's mother was furious with the people that sent them. Last year, they did the same thing and she asked them to send the mexicans in a big roomy bus. But they ignored her. Also, she brings the minorities a lot of vegetables from her garden. She is really nice too the less fortunate people and feel bad for them.

I think back into the story and I now realize how much the world has changed. Now, minorities are being treated a lot more human-like as opposed to being treated like dirt as they have been in the past. Although they are being treated dealt with more fairly in life they are still being mistreated.