Roy Foltrigg: The Characters Of The Counsel By John Grisham

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Register to read the introduction… He is absolutely a typical dominant aggressive lawyer who tries to magnify every single thing and put witnesses into a tremendous state. Although he was an excellent attorney, he resulted to be forcing Mark to narrate every single detail of his conversation with Atty. Clifford. He almost violated Mark's right as a witness when he and the federal agreed to bug their interrogation with the young boy. He also showed chauvinism when he underestimated the ability of Reggie as the lawyer of the controversial witness, he was sarcastically aware that serious criminal cases like murder were not the field of expertise of Mark's counsel. Somehow, it was also funny to see an intelligent attorney being knocked and subsided by the cleverness of a kid, a negative impact on his credibility. …show more content…
The author can look into the soul of his characters and make readers start to love and hate them. He knows his craft very well as well as the law (definitely because he is a lawyer-turned writer). He was successful in turning his readers stuck or glued to their seats in reading the entire novel until one gets

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