LAST BOOK REPORT!!!!! :D

Part 1

        I read the book The Client by John Grisham, and the main character is an eleven year old boy named Mark Sway. He has a younger brother named Ricky, and his mother Dianne. They live in a place called Tucker Wheel Estates which is a trailer park. He’s a street smart kid that smokes his mom’s cigarettes. His parents got a divorce because his dad would get drunk and come home and abuse them. In the book they say that they went to court because his dad came home so drunk Mark had to hit him with a baseball bat. So now Mark is kind of the man of the house. He likes to protect his family because in the book he won’t tell the judge where the body is hidden, and Mark knows that if he tells where the body is that people will try and hurt his family.  

Part 2

        This book has a lot of conflicts in it. The main conflict in this book is when Ricky and Mark are in the woods smoking, and they watch a guy named Jerome Clifford commit suicide. Jerome was a lawyer to a guy that’s in the mafia named Barry. Barry hid the body in Jerome’s garage and the cops are trying to find the body, and Jerome thinks Barry is going to kill him so he killed him first. Before Jerome kills himself he tells Mark where Barry had hide the body. So when Mark escapes from Jerome and him and Ricky run home, and Ricky goes into shock so they have to go to the hospital. When Barry finds out that his lawyer killed himself and Mark talked to him before he died Barry knew that Jerome told Mark where the body was hidden. So when Mark is at the hospital with his mother and younger brother he goes down to the cafeteria, and when he’s in the elevator a guy gets on and threatens Mark with a switchblade. The guy tells him that he better not tell anyone where the body is hidden.

        Another conflict in this story that happens is when Mark has to go to court because he knows where the body is hidden, and Mark is taken to jail until he tells the judge where the body is. One day Mark fakes being in shock so they would take him to the hospital and he ran away with his lawyer. So he and his lawyer run to New Orleans to go find the person Barry killed. They go during the day to see where they can sneak into the yard to get to the garage, and when they go at night there are some of the people Barry hired to go get the body so he could throw it in the ocean so no one would find it. So when Mark and his lawyer are there at night Mark scares them away by throwing a rock at the neighbors window and they call the cops so the guys that Barry hired would run away and Mark would find the body and they could tell the cops.