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Heather Glazier Professor R. Jackson & Professor K. Zelinsky English 387.35 29 Mar. 2005 Written in reaction to the Alberta Sterilization Act "Jennie's Story" is a tragic account of how society can ruin and destroy innocent lives. Tom Flanagan's review of "Heart of the Sun", a movie based on "Jennie's Story", suggests that the play is a mainly an attack on the Catholic Church and therefore a gross misrepresentation of the history surrounding the Alberta Sterilization Act. While this may be true of the film I would argue that Betty Lambert effectively uses the play as a vehicle to expose and criticize the effects social hierarchies and assumptions can have on the lives of those who lack the power and position to defend themselves and is an accurate expression of those occurrences. "Jennie's Story" aptly reflects how eugenics impacted a large number of Albertans from 1928 until 1972 when the act was finally repealed,...

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