The Fall essays

The Fall essays The being of the book starts and stays with Jean-Baptiste Clamence talking about his life to a another young lawyer from Paris, the young man never says a word in the book other then through Clamence. It starts with him being a young ambitions lawyer and helping people when they have no money and even goes to the point of giving his clients money to start them off again. He then goes on to about a laughter he heard on the bridge it frightens him enough to make him stay away from water as he puts in the book. Then he goes on to talk about how he saw a young woman dressed in black standing on the bridge looking over the side, he said he continued to walk when he heard the splash of a body hitting the water, he goes on to tell that he couldnt move and just listened to the water splash around and the sound going further down the river. He says he feels bad for not doing anything for her but what could he really do, so he went home and forgot about her. The forgetting part is the longest part in the book that Clamence talks about he says it is easy to forget things when you make up your mind to do it. He talks how easy it is to forget the women he has had the clients he has done wrong or even done his best for. The saddest thing is when he speaks of god he is full of contempt for him say that he is unworthy of dying for our sins when he had so many sins of his own. As the book winds down Clamence has the young lawyer come to his apartment to finish their talk it is there that he shows him the stolen painting of the The Just Judges. He talks of he came to hold this painting and how he is waiting to be arrested for having it and being able to defend himself with why he was not turning it in the church. The conclusion of the book ended with him going on about how the young lawyer must come back and see him and how much he would not have changed his attitude in thinking and h ...