Character Analysis: The Last Mile By David Baldacci

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Imagine, what if you had a second chance at life. What would you do?
Would you try to change something you wished would’ve never happened?
Well for Melvin Mars, he got that once in a lifetime shot at redemption. Melvin got taken out of jail just minutes before he was supposed to be put to death by the electric chair. Amos Decker and the other rookies of a special force in the FBI are investigating the case. In The Last Mile by David Baldacci, there are many conflicts. Three big conflicts I chose were Melvin getting put in/taken out of jail, the Montgomery from Alabama confessing to the crime, and Bogart’s special squad (the one that Decker is in) getting shut down. One of the main conflicts in this section of the book, or even the whole novel, is Melvin Mars getting taken out of jail. Around two decades before the time he got taken out of jail, he was convicted of murdering his own parents. Although this was very …show more content…

What the FBI is thinking (and is probably true) is that Montgomery got paid to confess to the crime. Since he was already going to be put to death for other crimes, he agreed to it so his wife could get the money. Well, it ends up a lot more complicated than that. Mars got out of jail and Bogart and his crew (Bogart, Decker, Milligan, Davenport, and Jamison) started investigating. They had very little to base off of and they have to find out every single perspective to get anywhere in the case. They talk to a lot of random people which is confusing to how it helps the case, but it does help. While this is all happening Montgomery’s wife’s house ended up getting exploded, with her in it. There were some valuable things inside the house that the crew found before this had happened, though. Decker talked to more people in the area and found out some valuable information that they needed…. But since the case was “over” the FBI said that the crew had to get off of the

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