What Is The Theme Of Just Mercy And A Few Good Man

Stories like Just Mercy & A Few Good Man make a man question if they are really a person. They both have their unique way of informing the reader of the author's perspective on what is Justice and what is inherently injustice. Author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson makes it very clear to the reader his views on Justice and why he whats change. This is unlike Aaron Sorkin who never directly states his beliefs instead he resonates them within his fictional characters. The story Just Mercy is all about viewing people with humanity instead of thinking of the accused as always immoral. Bryan Stevenson does a substantial job at this by explaining the case of Walter Mcmillian, a man who had a part of his very life stripped away from him for a crime

Unlike Stevenson, Sorkin does it through conversations between his fictional characters. The way Sorkin does this so nonchalantly is by putting these characters in an awkward situation. To prove a man who irrefutably killed another man is innocent; this is accomplished by exploring the idea that a soldier who is blindly following order is living an unjust life due to not exercising their moral compass and without ethics, there is no justice. The character Santiago is a great example in this text who has died as a result of this very idea. The defendant Dawson is a man who represents Sorkin's ideals and has a great response to a bargain deal by stating “ DAWSON. I’m afraid we can’t do that, sir. KAFFEE. Do What? DAWSON. Make a deal,sir. KAFFEE.What are you talking about? DAWSON. We did nothing wrong, sir, We did our job. If that has consequences then I accept them. But I won’t say I’m guilty, sir.” (Sorkin 51). Now, this snippet is what hammers Sorkin's ideals by showing that pointing at the person whose blood is on their hands and assuming they are guilty is not only Unjust but only results in two victims at the end of the