Just Mercy Summary

The justice symbol with blindfolded lady justice which represents that the justice must be served without any fear, favors, and regardless of money, wealth power, and impartiality. But in today’s world, many people will agree that the justice symbol does not hold its pure form, and the current justice system is unfair. In the introduction of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice And Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson -an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a clinical professor at New York University School of Law- claims that the current judicial system is mistreating some people. In the introduction, the author tells his reader that the book will focus on the mass incarceration and

It is not easy for the author to express his own opinion on this matter because the topic of justice is so broad and mostly depends on reader's encounter with the justice system. But to his best abilities, Stevenson uses ethos, pathos, and logos to get readers to understand his point of view on this issue.

To start off introduction, the author tells his readers about his own background story. The author reveals that he became a lawyer because law schools did not require him to know much. The author talks about how little of knowledge he had about law schools and also share that he never met a lawyer prior to his law school. After his first year in at Harvard law school, Stevenson worked with a juvenile justice project in Philadelphia. After starting public policy program in September, Stevenson felt disconnected because the course only focused on numbers to maximizing the benefits with minimum costs. But all changed when Stevenson discovered course on race and poverty litigation that sent the students to spend a month with an organization off-campus. During this unusual one month, Stevenson took the opportunity to work with Southern Prisoners Defense