The Pelican Brief: A Review
I. Biographical Insights
John Grisham was born on February 8 1995 in the town of Jonesboro,
Arkansas. His father was an emigrant construction worker so the family
moved a lot. In 1967 they came to Southhaven, a little town outside Memphis.
John got an undergraduate degree in accounting at the Mississippi State
University and after that he went to Lawschool at OLE Miss and graduated
from the University of Mississippi in 1981. After his graduation he
returned to Southhaven to work as a lawyer. He got himself a small office
where he practiced criminal law. John was also politically engaged and in
1983 he won the election the Mississippi House of Representatives. He now
started to work on his ...
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year. In 1992 his third book, The Pelican Brief was published and it
became and enormous success. At the same time "A Time to Kill" was
republished and this time it became a best-selling book. In 1993 "The
Client" was published and "The Chamber" came the year after that. His two
most recent books are "The Runaway Jury" (1996) and "The Partner" (1997).
All of his books are or will be movies, five of them already are (The
Client, The Pelican Brief, The Firm, A Time to Kill and The Chamber). In
1990 he gave up his job as a lawyer and resigned his seat in the state
Legislature to write books. Today he lives in Charlottesville, Virginia
with his wife Renee and his two kids Ty and Shea. Apart from writing books
John also coaches his son's Little League team. He also has a small farm in
Oxford, Mississippi.
II. Characters
In the novel The Pelican Brief a young female Law Student named
Darby Shaw writes a brief describing a theory she has on the murder or two
Supreme Court Justices. It ...
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between Darby and Gray developed throughout
the novel, without the love relationship, I doubt Gray would have risked
his life the many times that he did.
III. Representative Passage on Imagery and Figurative Language.
"A dozen cruise ships of all sizes sat perfectly still in the
shimmering water. They stretched in a careless formation almost to the
horizon. In the foreground, near the pier, a hundred sailboats dotted the
harbor and seemed to keep the bulky tourist ships at bay. The water under
the sailboats was a clear, soft blue, and as smooth as glass. It gently
curled around Hassel Island, and grew darker until it was indigo and then
violet as it touched the horizon. A perfect row ...
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