Camino Island Character Analysis

Camino Island, the bestselling novel by John Grisham contains several messages that relate to everyday life. The characters in the novel lived their lives in ways that display the certain messages. Although the messages are not clearly obvious when reading this story, they can easily be discovered with a little bit of thought.
In the start of the novel, Mercer Mann is struggling financially as she is about to be laid off from her teaching job. Although this is a struggle for her, Mercer is about to have an even larger obstacle ahead of her. Five original F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts were stolen from Princeton’s Firestone Library, and the university is desperate for the recovery. A covert team is working hastily for Princeton’s insurance agency in order to avoid paying twenty-five million dollars in compensation. Mercer was offered a large sum of money by Elaine Shelby, who works for the company to travel to Camino Island, Florida, so that she can get to know Bruce Cable. He is a bookstore owner who is …show more content…
This message is very relatable in many situations throughout the novel. One example is when Mercer is approached by Elaine and offered the job. Elaine uses a different name and offers Mercer a false job position, but once they meet she tells Mercer the truth. Mercer does think she could trust Elaine since she lied to her in the beginning. Another example is between Mercer and Bruce, since Mercer is relying on him to tell a person who just entered his life private information. Bruce acts like he trusts Mercer, and Mercer believes that Bruce trusts her. A third instance involves Bruce and Mercer, since Bruce is sharing personal information with Mercer in confidence that she does not tell anybody else. Bruce does not know that Mercer is passing the information onto Elaine and her collages. He trusts her, but in reality she is a person who cannot be heavily