Back in My Day… “Back in my day, people just didn’t do stuff like that.” In addition to hearing about how bread used to cost a nickel, that quote is what you hear it from the elders of most generations when talking about violence, especially on television in the present time; they say that the violence seen just did not seem to exist back then. However, when one thinks about it, violence that extreme …showed first 75 words of 923 total…

…showed last 75 words of 923 total…to cease to exist. In conclusion, violence in literature has existed throughout the ages, from the early times of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, to Virgil’s Aeneid, and then on to Christian lore. So the next time that your grandfather tells you the same old cliché “Back in my day, things like that just did not happen,” you can tell him that, in fact, they did, but bread doesn’t cost a nickel either.