The Testament
The Testament
By John Grisham
A. Setting
The novel started with a sympathetic and lonely mood as the one of the main character describe himself as an old man, lonely and unloved, sick and hurting and tired of living down to his last day even at his last a hour not being afraid of dying. The story begins to take place in Mclean, Virginia a home to many diplomat, billionaire business men ,members of Congress, and high-ranking government officials partially due to its proximity to Washington, D.C., On a clear day,at the fourteenth story of a law firm six miles away from the Washington Monument. However the novel takes a very large turn and finds itself in the jungles of Brazil in a certain place named Pantanal, a tropical place located in the state of Mato Grosso de Sul, that covered the entire northwestern portion of the state and continued into Mato Grosso to the north and Bolivia to the west, having no highways and roads , no towns or cities , only hundreds of rivers and streams spread like veins through the hundred thousand square miles of swamps. Having the Guatos and Ipicas as native inhabitants who are not civilized people and pagans that worship different spirits and animals where missionaries are trying to reach out. Then the novel goes to the states to a cozy little cottage on Chesapeake Bay in St. Michaels where there is a maritime museum, an oyster festival, and active harbor, dozens of quaint little bed-and breakfast which attracted city folks.
B. Plot * Intoduction
Troy Phelan Sr., an eccentric elderly billionaire, commits suicide minutes after leaving his vast fortune to an illegitimate daughter, Rachel Lane, instead of his six children by three marriages. His reason is revulsion over years of fighting with, and embarrassment from, his family, as well as their greed — much of which was due to his neglect of his children and multiple affairs (both personal and business).
* Rising Action
His lawyer Joshua Stafford and
By John Grisham
A. Setting
The novel started with a sympathetic and lonely mood as the one of the main character describe himself as an old man, lonely and unloved, sick and hurting and tired of living down to his last day even at his last a hour not being afraid of dying. The story begins to take place in Mclean, Virginia a home to many diplomat, billionaire business men ,members of Congress, and high-ranking government officials partially due to its proximity to Washington, D.C., On a clear day,at the fourteenth story of a law firm six miles away from the Washington Monument. However the novel takes a very large turn and finds itself in the jungles of Brazil in a certain place named Pantanal, a tropical place located in the state of Mato Grosso de Sul, that covered the entire northwestern portion of the state and continued into Mato Grosso to the north and Bolivia to the west, having no highways and roads , no towns or cities , only hundreds of rivers and streams spread like veins through the hundred thousand square miles of swamps. Having the Guatos and Ipicas as native inhabitants who are not civilized people and pagans that worship different spirits and animals where missionaries are trying to reach out. Then the novel goes to the states to a cozy little cottage on Chesapeake Bay in St. Michaels where there is a maritime museum, an oyster festival, and active harbor, dozens of quaint little bed-and breakfast which attracted city folks.
B. Plot * Intoduction
Troy Phelan Sr., an eccentric elderly billionaire, commits suicide minutes after leaving his vast fortune to an illegitimate daughter, Rachel Lane, instead of his six children by three marriages. His reason is revulsion over years of fighting with, and embarrassment from, his family, as well as their greed — much of which was due to his neglect of his children and multiple affairs (both personal and business).
* Rising Action
His lawyer Joshua Stafford and