Chapter 1 Samantha and her friends’ support to Pamela introduction

The aim of the paper is to show how it would be difficult if people have no jobs and it would be more difficultier for women.

The actuality of the theme is John Grisham’s novel The Gray Mountain. Because this novel presents the real life . One girl’s difficulties as a worker , mothers love to her children, Fathers support , and other life challenges are given in this novel.

The tasks of the work. We put the following tasks forward

The Gray Mountain is one of the best novels written by John Grisham.

John Ray Grisham is an American novelist , attorney, politican and activist who is best- known for his popular legal thrillers. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published worldwide.

John Grisham was born on February 8, 1955 Jonesbro Arkansas , United States. Grisham grew up in Sauthaven Mississippi bar in 1981, he practiced and served as a Democrat in the Mississippi State Legislature. Grisham vowed to take a naked stab at commercial fiction with his next novel: “The firm” about Law school graduate who is seduced into joining a Memphis law firm that turns out to be a front for the Mafia .

In the meantime , “A Time To Kill” rissued in paperback , sold more than three million copies. J. Grisham wrote his third novel: “The Pelican Brief” is about a female law student investigating the assossinations of two Supreme Court instices in only three months . There were 5.5 million copies of the book in print by March , 1993.

Grisham’s first non- fiction book is “The Innocent Man” ; another one is “Murder And Injustice In A Small Town” explores a 1982 murder case that resulted in two Oklahoma men being wrongfully sentenced to death row.

In 2001, Grisham detoured from his formulaic legal thrillers with “ A Painted House” , the story of a farm boy from rural Arkansas, who discovers a troubling secret in his small town. Beginning with a Painted House, Grisham broadened his focus from law ton the more general rural South but continued to write legal thrillers at the rate of one a year. In 2002 he once again claimed the number one book of the year with The Summons. In 2003 and 2004 he missed the number one seller of the year due to The Da Vinchi Code by Dan Brown but he once again produced two novels which ended year in the top five. In 2004, The Last Juror ended the year at number four and in 2005 he overtook The Da Vinchi Code and returned to number one for a year with The Broker. In 2006 it marked the first time since 1990 that he did not have one of the top selling books of the year, but he returned to number two in 2007, number one in 2008 and two in 2009.

He was also written sports fiction and comedy fiction. He wrote the original screenplay for and produced the 2004 baseball movie Mickey, which starred Herry Conik.

In 2005 , Grisham received the Peggy v. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, which is presented anually by the Tusa Library Trust.

In 2010, Grisham started writing a series of legal thrillers for children aged 9 to 12 years. It features Theodore Boone ,a 13- year- old who gives his classmates legal advice ranging from rescuing impounded dogs to helping their parents prevent their house from being repossessed.

In 2011 and 2012 his novels The Litigators and The Racketeer claimed the top spot in The New York Times best seller list. The novels were one of the best selling books of those years spending several weeks atop various best seller lists. In 20134 he again reached the top five in the US best- seller list. In November 2015 his novel Rogue Lawyer was at the top of the New York Times Fiction Best Seller for two weeks.

In 2017 Grisham released two legal thrillers . Camio Island was published on June 6, 2017. His all books were successfull. But his the most favourite novel was A Painted House. A Painted House is set in and around the town of Black Oak, Arkansas, where Grisham spent some of his childhood.

Gray Mountain is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham, published in hardcover on October 23, 2014. The book is set in Appalachia after the Great Recession and follows third – year associate Samantha Kofer after the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, when she becomes a legal clinic intern in Virgina’s coal mining country.

It is clear that Samantha is the main character of the novel. She stars as a successful lawyer in New York. However , due to The Recession, she soon finds herself furloughed, with no other option but to work for a charity firm for a year. Samantha is shown to be an incredibly hard worker at the firm . She mentions several times that for the last few years , she had not had anything but resembling a social life because she is always working long- hours. When Samantha is furloughed , she realizes that she hated her job. She did not like the clients she was working for, or the long hours that she kept putting in. The pay was good, but that did not matter because she njever actually got to spend the money doing things that she enjoyed.

The book begins with Samantha sitting outside the law firm when she works in Manhattan. The firm is famous for being the largest law firm in the world. Samantha laments the fact that it means nothing really because of the recession . All of the business they have worked with were hit hard with many of the larger ones closing down. As a result , The law firm had no business coming in and no way to pay their employees. Everyone is panicked as a string of employees are fired over a few days. Samantha is called into a meeting with her boss, Andy Grubman. Two other employees Ben and Izabelle, are calledin as well. Andy explains that with how chaotic things are, the firm can not afford to pay them.

Samantha had her interview with Mattie. Mattie asks her about her life in New York and her work. Samantha admits that she mostly dealt with financial matters and never actually saw the inside of the courtroom . Mattie does not sum bothered by this , admitting that they need all the help they can get. She invites Samantha to her house for dinner and offers her a room for the night since the small town does not have any reputable places to stay. After that, Samantha meets Chester, Mattie’s husband. Samantha shared details of her life with Mattie and Chester, admitting that she was unhappy with her job and felt like it was grinding away at her life. After that Mattie and Chester went into some more detail about what life like in the small town.

Mattie takes Samantha up to the mountains. Samantha sees the beauty of the mountains and then Mattie shows her the areas that have been demolished by the coal companies. Mattie reiterates how corrupt the coal companies can be saying many of the same things that Donovan explained the other day. They went to court twise, once for Lady and once for Phoebe. Mattie threatens the lawyer trying to keep Lady’s husband in prison, threatening to sue him for using an illegal deb tor’s prison. He agreed to let Lady’s husband go with a greatly reduced fee. Phoebes case goes well again, and the judge agrees to the restrating order and warned her husband to make sure his brother does not do anything that could cause him to get thrown into prison.

Samantha goes into work and ends up having a very chaotic day. Her first client of the day is Pamela Booker. Pamela recently had her wages garnished for credit card debt that was over ten years old . She tells Samantha that she had no idea about the debt since it was before her divorce . Her employer fires her because he does not want to deal with all the paperwork. Pamela has now lost her home and she and her two children are living out of their car. Samantha and oters helped Pamela throughout the day, getting food for her and her children and eventually securing a motel for them. Samantha goes after Pamela’s farmer unemployer as well as the collection agency that is trying to take her money. After that, Samantha flies out with Donovan and Jeff to meet her father. They gather together to talk about the big case between Buddy and the Casper state Mining Company. Donovan is interested in going after the company itself. Samantha shares the evidence they have gathered and her father was hopeful that they would have an easy win, but they had been going to need finances, He and Donovan work on the logistical details With Marshall promising that they will easily be able to Raise the necessary funds for the case. Compared to the cases, that Marshall’s firm usually deals with, this, one is relatively inexpensive, plus investors will be pleased with all the facts that they have gathered.