An Eye for an Eye
An Eye for an Eye Aryan Mukherjee An eye for an eye. The principle of revenge. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. The principle of forgiveness. But what if the eyes taken did make the whole world blind? And what if the perpetrator got off scot-free? What if lies after fallacies after little mishaps all built up so far and so wide that by the time people really started catching wind of what was truly being conspired, it was too little too late. Thus is the story of Stephen Glass. Stephen Glass was born on September 15, 1972 to a Jewish family in Chicago, and appeared to have an instant knack for journalism. From joining the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated from, to having colleagues ranging prominently in several renowned magazines at the time, especially The Rolling Stone . However, his goals crossed paths like a double helix, and as the delightful odor of journalism wrapped him in from one side, his family’s bigoted idealogies ste...