Seize the Day by Saul Bellow is a very interesting novel. As you read more and more into the book, Bellow brings you closer and closer to Tommy Wilhelm. Wilhelm is isolated from everybody and everything, giving this book almost a "day in the life of" sort of feel to it. This book reminds me a lot of Spike Lee's movie The 25th Hour, starring Edward Norton. In the movie, you spend a day in …showed first 75 words of 2892 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2892 total…his own butt. As the saying goes, you never truly know what you have, until it is gone. Unfortunately, both Monty Brogan and Tommy Wilhelm learned that lesson the hardest way. If one message comes through both of these genres very clear, it is to think before you act, and to know the consequences of your actions, for one day you could loose everything, and die with nothing and no one that cared for you.