Comparison essay on Loneliness of the longdistance runner and chariots of fire
             I am looking at the respective personalities of the two characters and the influences
             which shaped their respective lives, their attitudes towards authority, their motivation in
             running and their respective ideas concerning 'victory' and 'defeat'.
             Both Colin and Eric's lives have been shaped by their surrounding and the area's in
             Colin was raised in lower class society. He grew up thinking that the way to live was the
             way of crime. He was brought up to believe that cops and other authority figures where
             not there to help but only to make things worse for you in the long run. He is loyal and
             honest in ways only he and others of lower class society can understand. Colin leads a
             life of crime and dishonesty to everybody but himself.
             Eric on the other hand was raised in a lower class society but on the side of a missionary.
             He learned to respect each side of higher and lower class. He is honest and loyal to but in
             a very different way then Colin. He is honesty in its purest form. Eric obides by Gods
             Law whereas Colin obides by his owe rules. Eric is a free spirit. "He run's like a wild
             animal." God is a factor in all aspects of Eric's life. The two do share one common
             factor though. They both run for the love of it.
             Colin Smith has different views and attitudes towards authority. He looks at different
             individuals in different authoritative positions differently from one to the next. He also
             seems to have put high class society in an almost authoritative position, shown to us by
             His attitude toward the governor and high class society are one in the same as he looks at
             the governor as a member of the upper class, Claiming that their sense of honesty is
             more like a sense of materialism and numbness all wrapped into one; "Be honest. Its like
             saying: ...