Brown Pelican Essay

The Brown Pelican The Pelican brief was a book written by John Grisham in 1992 surrounding the endangerment of the brown pelican. The survival of the brown pelican has been a long road with its ups and downs. With Grisham's background he could have easily made crime thrillers. Grishman was more than experienced when he was writing the book. On his website it says, "...he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990." (JG) He had experience in the field of law practices which had made the book more realistic, just like when he wrote the book ‘A Time to Kill.’ The book was based off a case he had of a victim of rape. He centered it around the thought of what the father of the girl would do to get vengeance for his daughter. (JG) With what he has seen in the courtroom, he can make reasonable assumptions about what could have happened with the case of the brown pelican. Grisham’s book revolved around the case of the brown pelican’s endangerment. The specie s the brown pelican belongs to is called the Pelecanus occidentalis. “Brown pelicans have short, dark legs, long, broad wings, a large,
The Brown pelicans ate the fish and were subjected to the side effects off the pesticide. When “breeding season” came around the shells of the offspring were to soft so when the adult went to go sit on the egg it would crush under their weight and the bird would be lost. This happened throughout the species and the number of birds significantly dropped. In 1970 it was declared endangered by the government. 1971 it was declared endangered in the state of california. The brown pelican might have been taken off the endangered species list but there are still subspecies that are still endangered. This makes no