The Street Lawyer Part II

                    Mike and Clair lost because they have finally come to the agreement that they were going to get a divorcee and end their ties together all together. She already talked to her lawyer about it and already had the papers made up,  they even discussed the splitting of property and finances, which he got about 20-30% of everything while Clair is getting 70-80%, which is also very unfair for him because he was the one that was working the most and earning those funds for him and Clair, only for her to get the majority of it because her lawyer thinks its right. They did not really fight but they did have their arguments and discussions, he never hit her nor did she hit him. He might be cracking but for her to take the majority of the money, that should of been split equally in half, is completely selfish and makes her seem conceded and self centered for her to do. That is why they have lost because she is selfish enough to not try to fix the crack in the wall of her marriage with Mike instead she tears down the wall completely only to dent the new wall she'll put up at some point, and the only possible way for her to fix the marriage was to talk to him and try to see him or go out with him every possible spare minute she had, but instead of trying she and Mike shut themselves out form each other.

                 Hector Palma helps Mike but informing him that the firm suspects it was him that took the files without permission and illegally. He also tells Mike to get rid of the paper or return them without anyone knowing so Hector himself would not get into trouble for giving out those keys to Mike in the first place. I do not believe Mike is having a mid-life crisis. I think he is more interested in helping people more directly than how he was before by breaking up trusts.

The Street Lawyer Part I

Mike did not believe DeVon  Hardy would kill them because all he was doing was threatening them and when he let out shots he would aim above their heads and during the time they were all held up DeVon did not talk all he did was sit there in silence. When Mike asked DeVon he would tell them anything, he did not ask for anything the only thing he really asked for was dinner and even then he did not harm any of the lawyers that were in the room, the only “harm” was rope burn from the rope around their wrist.

Clair and Mike do not have the best relationship, they do not really talk all they do pretty much share a bed every night. Their marriage is rocky because of that lack of conversation and because of their lack of conversation they do not really get along, they do not go on trips with each other or have time for each other. I do not think that, due to the fact that they no longer talk, Mike is contemplating to quit his job at the firm. I think it is because he sees that after what happened in the firm with Mister he can no longer "live" for his work and only his work. He is more into trying to spend time with his wife, Clair, and help out with the homeless people shelter.

Mike sees it fit because if it was a school or a theater then innocent people might have been hurt or worse. Instead of children or anyone else being held at gun point it was 8 lawyer that were held at gun point. To have men that could handle more of the pressure of a gun being pointed to their head while children or teenagers would be freaking out or instigating the shooter or there would be a panic and chaos.

Edgar Allen Poe

In most of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories there seems to always be a sense of creepiness, eeriness, and a slight taste of what is going to happen next also known as suspense. In most of his stories there seems to always be some beautiful woman dying or on her death bed, for instance, "The Fall of The House of Usher" where the beautiful Lady Madeline seems to have died but then later comes back to life with a need to kill her brother whom she was "married" to. Now as poetic as that may seem to be I would like for you to think about this for a second back then it was normal for royalties to marry within the family so their blood line was not "tampered" or "tainted" with other commoners blood, if this was so normal then why does she wish to kill her beloved brother as if she were a knight and he a dragon? Well if we really think about it most of the symbols for royalty was either a dragon or a unicorn of some sort, sometimes there were both unicorn and a dragon with the look of being ready to fight it out.

Now imagine "Tell-Tale Heart" where the creepiness comes into play. A man with a dead beady eye, which the narrator believed wanted to kill him, was staying in his home with him but the narrator sees him as a threat. So while the old man sleeps he goes and checks in on him throughout several nights and on the last night, the seventh night, the old man wakes form his sleep and then and only then does the narrator strikes and kills the man.  That is not all later on the police shows up and questions him about the scream that the old man let out before he departed from the world.

 The majority of Poe’s stories have death and or destruction in them which thrills his audience to the point of which they want more but by the time people truly started to recognize his work he was well into madness and was truly done with writing his stories.