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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts the theme and tone of the novel and film, as well as the characters Rudy Baylor and Jonathan Lake. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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For - July 2001 -- properly! The name John Grisham has become synonymous with media
success. Every time he releases a new book, it finds its way to the top of the best-sellers list in record time. The film adaptations of his books
usually ensure impressive box-office receipts. The one-time Southern lawyer turned prolific author has what Hollywood studio executives would describe as the Midas touch, which is why his novels usually
make a speedy transition from bookshelves to movie screens. His 1995 novel, The Rainmaker, is no exception. It is not a grand legal drama in the classic sense
of the term in that it is not filled with non-stop plot twists and a completely shocking resolution. Rather, it is a bluntly realistic account of the legal profession
and what motivates those who practice it. It features the traditional legal themes of corruption, greed and ethics, but draws no tidy conclusions. Grisham prefers for his readers
to do that for themselves. The novel and the film feature as their unlikely protagonist named Rudy Baylor, a young attorney barely out of law school, who like his other
legal contemporaries, has grandiose dreams of landing for his firm "a client worth at least twenty million [and becoming] an instant rainmaker, a bright young star with a golden touch"
(Grisham 9). This is where the title comes in, a reference to the esteemed Native American rainmaker who was vital to his tribe because he ensured that its crops
would not be lost to drought. A legal rainmaker is, in essence, a "cash cow" who keeps bringing in lucrative clients to his firm. The greater the settlement,
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