A Civil Action Stephanie Crola Period 2 A Civil Action is based upon a true story that Jonathan Harr, a former staff writer of New England Monthly describes a case that in the legal system that is fascinating and compelling. The story of a impracticable quest by an idealistic young personal-Injury lawyer, whose aim was to prove that two conglomerates, Beatrice Foods and W.R Grace, allegedly polluted the water in Woburn ,Mass. a Boston suburb, …showed first 75 words of 518 total…

…showed last 75 words of 518 total…to the legal system. This book influenced me because that's the kind of lawyer that I want to be someone that risks losing everyone and everything to prove that something so unjust to the people that it wouldn't happened again. He has proven a point to the American public that nobody is above the law, and that America's business must follow the environmental laws that protect the people that live in and around the factories.