'The Street Lawyer\r'

'RUNNING channelise: THE STREET LAWYER The driveway lawyer neighborly Work 3040-01I Apr. 30, 2008 SUMMARY stool Grisham’s The bridle-path Lawyer tells the story of Michael Brock a married monied attorney who has it all. Michael, a graduate of Yale University, imparts at Drake & Sweeny, one of the top and well respected firms in capital letter D. C. While there he is qualification the money and rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeny. He is unless one step away from an early on partnership. Until one rainy winter afternoon at Drake & Sweeny.\r\nAn angry stateless bitkind who only wants to be called â€Å"Mister” holds Michael and eight other attorneys hostage in an mathematical function at Drake & Sweeny. â€Å"Mister” demands the appraise records be brought to him. afterward the tax records arrive he orders Michael to tell him what each rightfulnessyer including Michael has made in earnings for the year and how a good deal of their money is donated to charities and the roofless. After several hours the hostage stick appear off is over leaving one man dead and a nonher(prenominal) reborn. Mister” is shot in the direct by a sniper policeman as he opens the office door to receive the soup he wants delivered from a local protective cover. â€Å"Mister’s” blood and corporal fluids cover Michael’s entire face since he is standing directly behind him. The police reinforcing stimulus Michael to a small gym in the expression where doctors examine him and he is able to w be. After his shower Michael returns home. The next morning he returns to work at Drake & Sweeny. After reading an article in the stick out he learns more nigh â€Å"Mister” whose real de none is DeVon Hardy.\r\nAfter paying a visit to Mordecia kelvin the director of the fourteenth Street Legal Clinic, where â€Å"Mister” was a client, Michael dejects to rethink his c beer as an anti-trust lawyer for Drake & Sweeny and his flavor as well. Leaving Drake & Sweeny to become a pass lawyer would fork out profound affect on his home life and marriage as well. After telling his wife he will impart a moving in with less money and no benefits the couple separate and eventually file for divorce. Michael moves to a smaller apartment on the rough view of Washington D. C. nd begins functional at the 14th Street Legal Law Clinic with Mordeci Green. While working there Michael is harboring a dark secret: a confidential file. A confidential file from the law offices of Drake & Sweeny which contains information about the felonious eviction of â€Å"Misterâ€Å" and the other homeless people. Now Drake & Sweeny know their file is wanting(p) and want it returned immediately no matter what. correct if it means Michael losing his license to practice law. His former partners have become his enemies and Michael is now the most dangerous man o n the streets of Washington D.\r\nC. EXAMINATION Populations-at risk be the homeless in John Grisham’s The Street Lawyer and the environment that which they live in argon considered the mixer environment. Populations-at risk are defined as populations or groups of people who share roughly classifiable characteristics that places them at gr eraseer risk of social and economical deprivation and oppression than the general mainstream of society. The social environment involves the conditions, circumstances, and human interactions that encompasses human mankinds.\r\nPeople are low-level upon effective interactions with their environment in order to pass away and thrive. The social environment includes the actual physiological displace that society provides. This involves the type of home a mortal lives in, the type of work that is done, the amount of money available, and the laws and social rules by which people live. â€Å"Mister” and the other homeless who were illegal evicted from their makeshift apartments are to considered members of a social environment. In reference to the social environment the actual physical setting that society provided to the homeless were homeless shelters.\r\n only when once the homeless shelters do not begin to suckn in borders because they are over move the homeless are force into the streets in hopes of purpose a safe and warm place to pinch for the night. Sleeping on park benches and makeshift warehouses are the only means of shelter available to them. notwithstanding if they are working at a job the wages are usually not overflowing to provide adequate shelter. Society tends to blame the homeless for their choice of life and for being homeless. But at generation it not the fault of the homeless except the fault of the government.\r\nFor example a working center field class family loses their home to foreclosure because of lay-offs and budget cuts at their jobs. With being located off both l ose their gift and benefits that came along with their jobs. Even if both parents would find another job paying minimum wage it would not be enough to pay the $1000. 00 monthly owe and other expenses. Therefore, those psyches cannot be held at fault for adequate homeless the fault lies with the budget cuts made by the federal government to their jobs. At other times the fault lies with the individual themselves for becoming homeless.\r\nFor example a woman works as a shelter in a hospital becomes addicted to prescription drug drugs and is later fired from her job because of stealing the prescription drugs to which is addicted to. Since the prescription drugs are no semipermanent available to her she becomes addicted to crack/cocaine because it is ready to hand(predicate) to her. She files for un usage until she can find another job yet her unemployment checks are discharge to support her habit quite of paying her monthly rent. She is evicted and thrown into the streets wh ere and begins prostitution to support her habit.\r\nReceiving a â€Å"fix” has become her main precession in life. In that particular situation the individual is the blame for their choice to become homeless. ELUDICATION John Grisham’s characters Michael Brock and Mordecia Green worked not only as attorneys for the homeless but also as social workers too. throughout The Street Lawyer Michael and Mordecia counseled each individual to touch a knowledge of what their lives were before they became homeless and wherefore they have become homeless. to the highest degree lawyers would not take the time find out if whether or not their client had a place to sleep or food to eat the night before.\r\nMany lawyers would not offer their works free of charge. Michael and Mordecia worked as lawyers as well as social workers. Each daytime Michael and Mordecia traveled to a local homeless shelter to interview potential clients and help them with whatever they needed. Most of t heir clients were generally homeless people or individuals who were laid off from their job recently. The two helped these individuals fill out government forms, obtain job applications, and sometimes a rehab center for those who were addicted to drugs and alcohol.\r\nAt times some clients could not be helped but Michael and Mordecia provided their counseling service as a means of help. Some individuals only needed some to talk to about what was going on in their life at that time. He wants his readers to see the similarities between social workers and attorneys. His examples with Michael and Mordecia with their clients express primeval elements in the career of a social worker. valuation/CONCLUSION The Street Lawyer by John Grisham conveys its readers to the unknown world of homelessness and the cause.\r\nHe wants his readers to see the unrelenting dark side of humanity and how society views homelessness. By having the story take place in Washington D. C. , the capitol of the Un ited States, a place where many would not believe crack houses are a gorge away from the White House. Homeless women, men, and children are forced to seek shelter anywhere when all the shelters in the city are full. These same people are usually victims of layoffs and budget cuts by Congress. Grisham wants his readers to see the naturalism of homelessness and that it can happen to anyone.\r\nOne’s integral perspective on their life can veer in an instance because of one individual or many. He gives thorough examples throughout his book about the day and life of a homeless soul and their family. The struggles they face day to day not conditioned if he or she will have something to eat or a place to sleep by night fall. He contributes to the study of social work by having his main characters act as counselors to the homeless, employment agencies and location of rehabs for those who are addicted to drugs and alcohol.\r\nThe Street Lawyer is a learning tool in the world of social work for those who want to gain a better discretion of what a social worker does on a daily bases. One who revels assist others and making a difference in someone else’s life will definitely enjoy reading this book. After reading this book I now have a better understanding of homelessness and I will eventually use this book as learning tool while furthering my raising in the study of social work. â€Å"\r\n'