Believ Lying: Edward Bloom's Inflated Stories

Stories have been told since the beginning of time, they are meant to provide information or to teach morals. In the renowned film, “Big Fish” (T. Burton, 2003), the protagonist, Edward Bloom, constantly told inflated stories to keep his audience attentive, but he rarely kept accurate facts in his stories. Due to the exaggerated stories, William Bloom, Edward’s son, did not trust Edward anymore, and Edward did not gain back his trust till the day he died. Facts seemed to satisfy William, the time when he became aware of the accurate story of his birth, he seemed pleased. Throughout the film William even asked his father for the true facts, he was always in search for the accurate details. Edward Bloom told his inflated stories in every situation. Even on the night of his son’s wedding, he told his inflated stories, even though his son did not like his stories. The storytelling became a bad habit. A storyteller should use precise accuracy and factual details instead of inflation and exaggeration while telling stories. Trust is very delicate, it can take years to have somebody …show more content…
Edward Bloom went through a similar phase, his habit of telling inflated stories became his reputation. He would constantly tell these stories even if his primary audience, William, would dislike the stories. Edward told his ‘entertaining’ stories again and again to William, but William never seemed to share the same sense of entertainment with his father. Although Edward understood William did not like his stories, he still told those stories, until the day he died. The storytelling became a part of Edward, and separated from him only after he died. The primary cause of all the negative results from his storytelling was his habit of inflating his stories before he told them. Edward could have avoided his habit of exaggerating stories if he told his stories with precise