The Client 1993, The Chamber 1994, The Rainmaker 1995, The Runaway Jury 1996, The Partner 1997, The Street Lawyer 1998, The Testament 1999, The Brethren, 2000, The
Summons 2002, The King of Torts 2003, The Last Juror 2004, The Broker 2005, The Appeal 2008, The Associate 2009, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer 2010.
Novels that Grisham wrote have some special characteristics. His novels were made up of his experiences in his previous job. Most of them told about law, goverment and politic. His first
novel that published was A Time To Kill about the struggle of a white lawyer in helping a black father whose his daughter had been rapid. A Time To Kill and The Pelican Brief are Grisham’s
books example who have a theme-a small person againts some powefull people.
2.2. The Summary of Novel of The Pelican Brief
The Pelican Brief told an investigation which was done by Gray Gantham and Darby Shaw. Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, put himself in danger by threatening the
Presidential office and big business with his story of why two judges had killed. It also happened to Darby Shaw. She was a law student of Tulane University in New Orleans. Because she wrote
her theory, she put herself in danger. They had to use all their informations and evidences to escape from several attempts of killing them. They did not know whom can be trusted. But they
took many efforts to investigate and solve the case together. In the beginning of the story two Supreme Court Justices, Abraham Rosenberg and Glen
Jensen, had been murdered. Gray Grantham tried to investigate it. He got information from some believable informants. His first informant was Sarge who worked in the West Wing of White
House as cleaning service. Sarge gave him the list of justice candidats who would replace Rosenberg and Jensen. Grantham felt strange why Rosenberg and Jensen had been killed and
why the candidats had come from Republican. Then he wrote the story in The Washington Post.
Several days after the killing of two justices, Grantham got a telephone call from a so- called Garcia. Garcia told him that he knew who had murdered Rosenberg and Jensen, and also
some details of the assasinations. But he postponed to give Grantham information because he was afraid of his family’s safety. Grantham waited patiently and looked for other informations
from other informants. He also got someone investigate who Gracia was. When Grantam was waiting a telephone call from Garcia, he got a telephone call from
Darby Shaw. She had just lost her boyfriend because the brief which was written by her. The brief was called the Pelican Brief. She told Grantham that she was the author of the brief, and
that unknown people were behind her. She also asked him for a list of the people who had contributed the Presidents campaign three years ago. She hoped to find the suspect out with the
help of the list. Actually, Shaw made the brief just depend on the brilliant perception. She began it by
reading books and documents in the library and collecting the evidences. She also learned some great cases which had ever been handled by Supreme Court and then made a summary of the
suspect list. She showed the brief to Thomas Callahan, her boyfriend. Callahan handed the brief over to his friend Gavin Verheek he was a special counsel of the FBI Director. That was the
way the Pelican Brief went around, through the FBI, the CIA and of course the White House. The president had to restructure the Court now because of Rosenberg and Jensens death.
That was Victor Mattieces aim. Mattiecce was a tycoon from Lafayette who had drilled for oil in South Louisiana and had found a large amount of oil in 1979. Then he had started quickly to buy
that land. A lawsuit had ordered them to stop the dredging and drilling. The plaintiff had been an enviromental organization which had been called Green Fund, arguing that Mattiece would have
destroyed a natural refuge for waterfowl especially for the Louisiana Brown Pelican. After 30
years of contamination by DDT and other pesticides, the Louisiana Brown Pelican would have been eliminated then. Initially Green Fund had lost the trial but then Judge Rosenberg and Jensen
had kept the injunction in place. Mattiece had started to fight for the right to get the oil with hundreds of lawyers. He knew that it would take him a long time to win the trial.
He was so sure that the President would help him because he had contributed the Presidents campaign with four million two hundred thousand dollars. When the President had
been the Vice President 7 years ago, he had been in New Orleans for a Republican fundraiser. Somehow a photographer had snapped a picture of Mattiecce shaking hands with the Vice
President. The New Orleans paper had ran it in the next day. They had been grinning at each other like best friends.
He hid his illegal activities behind an impenetrable maze of limited partnerships and corpoorate associations. A Very expensive law- offices like WhiteBlazevich helped him to win
the trials. He knew that the president would choose conservative justices who would vote for his plans of gaining the oil. Mattiece also became aware of the Pelican Brief and decided to kill
everyone who was involved in it to keep his plans secretly. He hired the killer Khamel who also had killed the two justices to murder Shaw, Callahan and Verheek. Callahan was death of a
car bomb and Verheek was shot to death in a hotel room. When running away, Shaw asked Grantham for help. She called him and they met each
other in a hotel in New York. She told him everything she knew. Then they both started looking for Garcia, the only one who could verify Shaws dossier so that Grantham could write a story.
They started an investigation in different libraries for some days, and opened a file about Shaw’s theory of why Rosenberg and Jensen could have been killed. They thought that Mattiece must be
responsible for the two deaths. In fact Shaw’s theory was completely true.
They tried to look for Garcia depend on a picture which had gotten by a photographer had been asked for help by Grantham. They investigated WhiteBlazevich, and asked to law
students who had clerked in WhiteBlazevich. Then they made disguise and collected the evidences from other sources.
They found out that Garcias right name was Curtis D. Morgan who was one of the lawyers of WhiteBlacevich whose client was Mattiece. Shaw and Grantham decided to go to
Washington to meet Morgan. They found out that Garcia had been already dead. Probably, Mattieces people had murdered him. So they visited Morgans wife to tell her that her husband
had not committed suicide, and to ask for her help. She gave them a key to a lockbox in the First Columbia Bank. In the lockbox, they found a video cassette and an envelope with affidavit and
some papers in it. Those could prove Shaws theory. They went to the office of The Washington Post to write the story. Before writting the story
Grantham contacted director of FBI, Mattieces lawyers and the White House. The White House decided to tell everyone what Mattiece had done, and denied any connection between Mattiece
and the President. Mattiece and his people hade been indicted, the presidents image was badly hurt and would not win the re-elections. Then Shaw and Grantham was safe.
CHAPTER 3 LITERARY REVIEW
