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Someone who robs a bank is known as a robber, someone who steals is known as a thief, and someone who cheats is known as a cheater. Normally, when someone is known for doing something, that label sticks with them for the rest of their life. Ultimately, these labels often make redemption impossible for those people who once did something wrong. Being unable to redeem themselves, the robber, the thief, the cheater revert to their previous actions due to being unable to be accepted. This is an unfortunate reality for Jimmy McGill in the show Better Call Saul, as once Conman trying to do right is pushed down and reverts to his old mischievous ways due to his brother, Chuck McGill, never forgiving him. Throughout the TV show Better Call Saul, Jimmy McGill’s transformation into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman, and descent into Gene Takovic is caused by his brother …show more content…

Working in the mail room of the law firm is not enough for Jimmy, as he feels he needs to do something more to make his brother proud. He starts secretly taking classes online and eventually passes the bar exam to become a lawyer. One might think that after Chuck hears this news from Jimmy, he will finally be proud of him and give him a higher-level job in his law practice. Jimmy would be able to practice law with his brother and live happily ever after, but obviously, this is not the case as although Chuck gave Jimmy a second chance after the Chicago sunroof incident, he is not a believer in redemption. If Chuck had invited Jimmy in at this moment, not only would Jimmy not have entered the criminal world, but he would not have experienced a fall. After being rejected by his brother, Jimmy begins to build his law practice out of the back of a nail salon while also working as a public defender. This puts him in a difficult position, as he tries to do the right thing, but struggles

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