“The sweet Hereafter” dramatizes the emotional impact of a school bus accident on the injured survivors the families of the victims and the people of the small town of Sam dent, New York. A multitude of lawsuits accuse everyone politically connected with the town the school board or the school administration of responsibility for the accidents. In order to examine the cause of accident they question people who were directly involved with the accident.
Dolores Discoll the bus driver says that she thought she saw a dog through the snow blinded windshield and severed to avoid hitting it he really thinks she is very good at driving and she really enjoys it but uncertain happen which completely changes her point of view. She also said that she was very friendly with each one; she knew each kid…show more content… After the death of his twin kids, the lawyers questioned Billy about the bus driver Dolores he said by the time of the accident he was exactly behind the bus, for he really liked the driving of the bus driver. He never feared of getting into an accident. He was the only eyewitness at the movement when the accident occurred but he got distracted when he saw the schoolteacher Rise Walker he had an affair with and he did not see what happened to the bus.
Mitchell Stephens, Esquire is a New York city lawyer from a large firm who has made a good living from representing plaintiffs in negligence suits Mitchell says he is such a good lawyer because he is naturally angry person not because he is greedy. The emotional rush Mitchell gets from trying and winning cases and an overwhelming feeling of having reached some level of good are what keep him in business. After reading about the Sam Dent school bus accident in the newspaper, he drives up to the town to find the families to join for a negligence
