What would you do with close to ten billion dollars? Would what you do with the money change if it.
came from your father who abandoned you at birth? Could your religious beliefs have any say in this situation? .
These are all questions I had never thought about before I read The Testament by John Grisham Reading this.
book it made me think about what is truly important in life. Is it making money, having a happy family, or just.
living your life to the fullest? In The Testament a women must choose what is of most importance in her life, her.
faith or money.
The best strength I think John Grisham has is he makes characters believable. He shows their strengths,.
but also their weaknesses. He develops them quickly by telling their stories briefly, but thoroughly. Take Nate.
O"Riley for example. He is a recovering drugatic/alcoholic, and you find this out in the first couple of chapters. .
You learn about Troy Phelan from the opening paragraph; from him you learn about his greedy children, because.
Troy is signing his last will and testament and his children can't wait to get their hands on all his money. This is.
discussed in the first few chapters. Grisham makes you think you know what is going to happen, but then sweeps.
the carpet from under your feet in a matter of seconds. For example when Josh Stafford, Troy's long time lawyer,.
finds out that Troy had left basically everything to an illegitimate daughter, you wonder if that is the only suprise.
in the will (24). .
The thing I like most of all in The Testament is that Grisham takes the most fragile character and.
throws him basically to the wolves. He takes Nate O"Riley straight out of a detoxification center and gives him the.
job of finding Rachel Lane, Troy's long lost daughter. Little did Nate know, he would have to knock on death's.
doorstep several times. Grisham also plays with Nate's taste for alcohol. Nate had been admitted to a.
detoxification center several times before he was sent to find Rachel; several times Nate had been an inch away.