"The Rainmaker" by John Grisham, is about a young lawyer named Rudy Baylor who is graduating from law school and needs a job. When the job that he is supposed to have is given to someone else, he finds himself having to settle for a job with a law firm that isn't exactly on its way up the success ladder. A lawyer named J. Lyman Stone runs it. His nickname is 'Bruiser'. Bruiser, as Rudy will later find out, is not only a lawyer, but also a crook and will have to go into hiding when a former business partner of his testifies before a grand jury. Rudy has to form a partnership with a man named Deck Shiflit who has gone to law school but failed the bar exam more times than one can count. Together the two men have to fight an insurance company called Great Benefit, which has denied their client who has cancer, funds for a bone marrow transplant. Rudy has to go up against a large law firm that represents Great Benefit. Rudy also becomes involved with a woman whose husband beats her. He must juggle the case, the girl, and his landlady. This book is a mix of action, suspense and drama; it will change readers' stereotype of lawyers. .
Various conflicts in this book all seem to go on at the same time. The beginning conflict is between Rudy and his classmates. He is upset at the hard work he has put in while his other rich classmates will easily find jobs for which he will have to struggle to accomplish. The young lawyer's next conflict is with Leo F. Drumond the lead attorney for the Great Benefit defense who has sold out on his legal beliefs and obligations to win cases. As this conflict is being laid out, another comes in with the woman who is being beaten by her boyfriend. She doesn't want to leave him and Rudy must convince her that it is the only way for her to stay alive. Another part of the Great Benefit trial conflict comes out when the boy with the cancer dies. This escalates the empathetic feelings of the jury during the trial.
Rainmaker The Rainmaker is a movie that takes the viewer on the ride with a lawyer during his first trial. This is not only his first trial, but this is his first experience as a lawyer. Rudy is newly hired into a firm with one of his first cases being a "Rainmaker." He gets involved with th...
Rainmaker The Rainmaker is a movie that takes the viewer on the ride with a lawyer during his first trial. This is not only his first trial, but this is his first experience as a lawyer. Rudy is newly hired into a firm with one of his first cases being a "Rainmaker." He gets involved with this f...
Structure, as it relates to John Grisham's "The Rainmaker," must be broken into two distinct categories called, for the purposes of this essay, physical structure and narrative structure. ... "The Rainmaker" is John Grisham's sixth novel. ... In the case of "The Rainmaker," the point of view is exclusively first person. ... I"d be an instant rainmaker, a bright young star with a golden touch. ... John Grisham masterfully uses elements of narrative structure to craft his novel "The Rainmaker." ...
The main focus of the movie, "The Rainmaker" involves Rudy Baylor in assisting Mrs. Dot Black with her leukemia-stricken son Donny Ray. This was a negligence law suit and in order to win, Rudy Baylor and his associate Deck Shiffler needs to prove four points. They needed to prove duty of care, br...
There is somebody in the future who is known as the "rainmaker" who unifies all of the major organized crime syndicates and families in a period of a few months. This "rainmaker" is apparently somebody born in the Kansas City area where Joe resides, around the same time as the Looper program, with a specific birth date, a child. The rainmaker is the person in the future who is aggressively "closing loops" therefore he could be stopped and this whole series of event can be prevented from happening. His thought is that if he can stop the rainmaker, then he could sto...
Title: The Rainmaker Author: John Grisham City: Random House Inc. New York, New York Pages: 598 Summary: Rudy Baylor, a law student, was looking forward to an internship at a prestigious firm but it didn't go quite as he planned. The firm he had been invited to work for was purchased by a mu...
He started to write novels as a hobby; then he was named "the best-selling novelist of the 90s" after writing A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, and The Testament. ... He started to write novels as a hobby; then he was named "the best-selling novelist of the 90s" after writing A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, and The Testament. ...
