Shattered Glass

Humility is the first thing that came to mind as I watched this movie. Glass is a hypocrite during the voice over at the beginning when he says that the reporters should be humble. This struck me a great foreshadowing, humility is something Stephen Glass clearly never had. I think that anyone who has the audacity to publish fake articles just for the notoriety is a trashy no good liar and I think that the way Lane dealt with Glass was fitting. Proverbs 16:19 says "Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud." I thought this was good scripture for this because God wants us to be humble. Glass was a member of the proud category and he paid for his actions by being fired from The New Republic.

The Lord has an amazing way of punishing us for our negative actions. He wants us to be good, caring, honest people but unfortunately there are some people who aren't the model that God wants us to be. It is much better to be humble then proud because people generally don't like people who are arrogant and prideful. I know I tend to shy away from those people.

I thought that the end of the movie was ironic because in the end nobody listened to him anymore. In the end, all of the cut scenes to the classroom were merely Glass' imagination telling him the he was this popular, important writer. When all of the facts fell into place, Glass was merely a liar and a cheater who would do anything to get a good story published. Ultimately the lesson I learned from the movie was as Proverbs stated, it is better to just be humble and honest or else you will crumble with all of the liars and cheaters and prideful people.