Have you ever thought about telling a lie? Has that ever backfired on you? After you lie, do you realize how much better the situation would have been if only you told the truth? The main characters of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley figure this out the hard way. This graphic series consists of times where not being honest backfires on you when it comes to relationships, the future, and the past. To begin, the Scott Pilgrim series is about twenty-three-year old Scott Pilgrim who’s in a band and loves video games, which explains his constant references to them. Volume one opens up with Scott currently dating seventeen-year old Knives Chau. Yet, their relationship begins to get rocky towards the end of chapter one …show more content…
In chapter twenty-six, Scott’s friend Stephan Stills tells Knives about how Scott had cheated on her and Ramona. Knives, who is still head over heels over Scott, is hurt and feels that Ramona has the right to know as well. And so, Knives does just that and confronts Ramona about Scott cheating on them in the girl’s bathroom in chapter twenty-seven. Ramona feels hurt, especially since she thought Scott was different than the other’s she’s been with in the past. This is why in chapter twenty-nine, Ramona finally tells Scott that she knows that she cheated on her. Scott explains that he cheated on Knives with her, thinking it might make it okay, but Ramona is angry and upset and Scott continues to tell her he’s sorry and for her to forgive him. That’s the problem though, sometimes sorry doesn’t cut it. A fight breaks out between the two of them, and in chapter thirty, Ramona disappears, literally, she disappears into thin air right in front of Scott. Due to Ramona disappearing, Scott becomes depressed and is unable to function as a human being. From that point up until volume six chapter thirty-four, Scott blocked out all of his memories in order to prevent him from being more hurt. Even though, if only Scott was up front and honest from the beginning, the …show more content…
Upon meeting Scott, Ramona wasn’t very good at being open about her past and kept herself a mystery. She didn’t even reveal her age to Scott until volume four chapter nineteen. Though, the biggest secret she kept was about Gideon, an ex-boyfriend she first mentioned in volume one chapter four, and didn’t reveal any information about until volume six chapter thirty-seven when Scott is facing Gideon and Ramona finally reappears after being gone for so long. Before that point, Gideon was only known as the last evil ex-boyfriend Scott was going to have to fight. As it turns out, Gideon was the one who formed the league of evil exes in the first place, which would have been helpful information for Scott as he was fighting the rest. You also learn why Ramona couldn’t let go of Gideon, as he was able to still get literally inside her head. Ramona was being secretive because of her inability to let Gideon go, and her mysterious attitude about her life almost got Scott killed, but luckily he picked up an extra life in volume three (as I mentioned, video game references). At the end of volume six, all of Ramona’s past was revealed and her and Scott were finally able to put the past behind them, and begin being truthful from then on
The book that i chose to do this speech on is Cowboy Ghost. Cowboy Ghost is about a boy named Titus who goes on a cattle drive through Florida in the early 1900s. The main character in this story is Titus. Titus Timothy MacRobertson is a small and weak 16 year old boy that wants to impress his father that kind of ignores him. His mother died giving birth to him and his father “blames” Titus for her death. His father (Rob Roy MacRobertson) is a strong, massive and hardworking man. His brother Micah is a 29 year old man that is described as being a second Rob Roy MacRobertson because of his strength and size, at the end of the book you find out that he was more like their mother. The cattle drive was going really good until seminoles (indians)
When most teenagers tell a lie they never get caught in it. This is what happen to a boy named Philip Malloy in the book Nothing but the Truth by Avi. Philip who took a lie too far and greatly suffered the consequences that came with this lie.
Ericsson argued that “telling the truth all the time is nearly impossible” (159). Lies are part of everyday life, like drinking coffee for breakfast. For Barkley, lies became a stifling part of his life. The two authors explained how lies can impact a society.
American writer and speaker, Dorothy Allison, once said “things come apart so easily when they have been held together by lies” (Allison). One of the first lessons that kids are taught is to be honest and always tell the truth. Being honest is not always easy, but the result of lying is much worse then telling the truth. In Animal Farm, George Orwell demonstrates how lies and deceit will ruin society if everyone always believes what the leader says, people lie to themself, and if laws are changed to benefit the group in power.
That, like unreliable narrators, individuals often ‘lie’ to themselves in order to cover up the actual
The people who claim that they do not lie are probably lying when they say it. Whether it is to deceive authority or just to play a joke on a friend, it is part of human nature to lie. In the novel The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby takes on a character of wealth and luxury. Gatsby wants to win back his love interest from five years ago, so he secretly becomes wealthy through owning an illegal drug business, using his abundance of money to impress her. In contrast, in Tobias Wolff’s “The Liar,” he tells a story of teenage James as he lies about his life to appear more fascinating. He lies not because he wants to, but because it comes naturally to him. Both stories convey people struggling to find the purpose of their
When initially asked about the morality of lying, it is easy for one to condemn it for being wrong or even corrupt. However, those asked are generally guilty of the crime on a daily basis. Lying is, unfortunately, a normal aspect of everyday life. In the essay “The Ways We Lie,” author Stephanie Ericsson makes note of the most common types of lies along with their consequences. By ordering the categories from least to most severe, she expresses the idea that lies enshroud our daily lives to the extent that we can no longer between fact and fiction. To fully bring this argument into perspective, Ericsson utilizes metaphor, rhetorical questions, and allusion.
A movie, “The Other Sister,” is about two mentally challenged people name Carla Tate and Daniel. Carla Tate, a 24-year old woman, return to San Francisco from a sheltered boarding school after long years. After rejoining with her overprotective mother Elizabeth, a gentle and thoughtful father Radley, and two young and older sisters, Carla announces that she wants to attend a local school called Bay Area Polytech, a normal vocational school. Nevertheless of her mother Elizabeth’s disapproval, Radley supports her to pursue her dream. On the first day, Carla meets a boy named Danny and helps him when someone calls him “retarded.” They both get close to each other and fall in love quickly. Carla envied Danny for living on his own, so
Richard Gunderman asks the question, "Isn 't there something inherently wrong with lying, and “in his article” Is Lying Bad for Us?" Similarly, Stephanie Ericsson states, "Sure I lie, but it doesn 't hurt anything. Or does it?" in her essay, "The Ways We Lie.” Both Gunderman and Ericsson hold strong opinions in regards to lying and they appeal to their audience by incorporating personal experiences as well as references to answer the questions that so many long to confirm.
Many people think that reading more can help them to think and develop before writing something. Others might think that they don’t need to read and or write that it can really help them to brainstorm things a lot quicker and to develop their own ideas immediately (right away). The author’s purpose of Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, is to understand the concepts, strategies and understandings of how to always read first and then start something. The importance of this essay is to understand and comprehend our reading and writing skills by brainstorming our ideas and thoughts a lot quicker. In other words, we must always try to read first before we can brainstorm some ideas and to think before we write something. There are many reasons why I chose Stephen King’s essay, Reading to Write, by many ways that reading can help you to comprehend, writing, can help you to evaluate and summarize things after reading a passage, if you read, it can help you to write things better and as you read, it can help you to think and evaluate of what to write about.
Although it is considered wrong to tell lies, it seems that literature has offered us situations where telling lies isn’t necessarily bad. Of course, lying often has a tragic outcome, but not always for the person or people who told the lie or lies. Oftentimes, these unfortunate outcomes are directed at the person about whom the lie was told. Furthermore, these stories have explained that dishonesty can result in success for both the liar and the target. Maybe we have been teaching the wrong values to our children.
Stephanie Ericsson’s The Ways We Lie, analyzes and reflects on how lying has simply become the norm in our society. We all lie, there is not one person in the world that does not lie. Most people lie because they are afraid of telling the truth, however what they do not know is telling a lie can lead them in the wrong direction because many things can happen when lying to a person. The person can find out when everything unravels that person will not have trust in you and you would be known as a liar. To every action there is a consequence, so why not deal with just one consequence when telling the
Ever told a lie, or even been caught in a lie? If so, stay tuned to listen why Phillip, Dr. Seymour, and Jake barlow lied in the book Nothing But The Truth by Avi realistic fiction. In the book Nothing But The Truth it's about a boy named Phillip Malloy who goes to school to only be suspended for humming the nation anthem. As time goes by in the story Phillip story becomes nation wide news, leading to the school and Philip to be in deep trouble.In the novel many people lied, which could have lead to a completely different outcome if Phillip,Dr. Seymour, and Jake Barlow didn't lie.
Telling the truth can have some consequences, but a lie can cause more damage in a relationship once it has been figured out. People believe that by just lying, a problem is solved, but problems start when lies are told. Lying destroys relationships and truth builds honest relationships which, can last forever. In both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Rob Marshall’s Chicago, characters lie because they feel that it is easier. However, lying leads to a downward- spiral. The society we live in can either lead us to a complicated relationship with the truth or easygoing. The problem with constantly telling lies is that it starts off with one, then leads to another until everything you say is a lie. Being truthful
“The Man in the Black Suit” by Stephen King is about a nine year old boy, named Gary, who has an encounter with the Devil in 1914. One Saturday, Gary goes fishing in Castle Stream, trying out his new bamboo fishing pole in the “troutiest brook he’d ever fished.” After catching a nineteen inch brook trout, Gary falls asleep while watching the clouds. Gary is woken abruptly by a tug at the end of his fishing line and suddenly realizes that there is a bee sitting on his nose. All of a sudden, there is a clap and the bee tumbles off Gary’s nose and onto his lap. He then looks over his shoulder to see who clapped and notices a man standing behind him wearing a black three piece black suit. “I knew right away that he was not a human being, because his eyes were the orangey-red of flames in a woodstove.” The man tells Gary that he came with bad news that Gary’s mother died from a bee sting, and he believes the man. Gary states “we always believe, on some level, the worst things our hearts can imagine” because Gary’s brother