The Street Lawyer Literary Elements

The Street Lawyer Literary Elements

Genre

Law thriller

Setting and Context

Washington D.C. in the present day

Narrator and Point of View

An unnamed, third-person omniscient narrator.

Tone and Mood

The tone is tense and thrilling; the mood is uneasy.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Brock is the protagonist; 'Mister' is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the novel occurs when 'Mister' takes several lawyers hostage in a law firm before being shot by the police.

Climax

The climax of the story is reached when Brock discovers that Mister was homeless and that the law firm evicted him from his house.

Foreshadowing

The kidnapping of the lawyers is foreshadowed by the fact that they destroyed the homeless man's life.

Understatement

The role that financial stability plays in our lives is understated throughout the novel.

Allusions

The story alludes to the exciting mystery behind each individual's actions.

Imagery

The imagery of the tense chase that Brock pursues is present in the novel.

Paradox

N/A

Parallelism

There is a parallel between the injustice that Brock feels and his devotion to uncover the truth.

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The destroyed house is a metonym for the ruined life of the homeless man.

Personification

N/A

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