This week we watched a movie on Lee Israel and how she forged letters for money. Lee is an author who writes biographies about people and she was in debt with a lot of people. She needed a way to make money, but she also had an attitude and so many people didn’t really like her as a person. She was also an alcoholic, so this didn’t help with her financial struggles. She decided to sell a letter she had to someone and got money to help pay for anything, but mainly for her cats health. She eventually realized that this could help and then she decided to get more letters that she can forge. She ended up getting caught and got 6 months of house arrested and a couple years on probation. When we met in class, we had a big discussion on the movie. We talked about everything she has lost, her cat, her financial stability, her career, and her friends and family, and how that connects with how she forged the letters, or how she acts the way she does. everything she does in her life and how she acts is a huge cycle that she can’t stop by herself, so it’s good that people figured it out as soon as they could have.
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