Can You Tell The Truth In A Small Town Analysis

There are many similarities and differences between “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town?” and “The Secret Society of the Starving”. In this two-text paper I will be discussing the similarities and the differences of communication in the communities from “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town?” and “The Secret Society of the Starving” such as the secrets within the communities, the struggle for control and the themes.
There are secrets within the communities in both text. They cover up unpleasantness or keeping things under wraps. In Can you tell the truth in a small town it says, “if a discouraging word is heard, it is not for public consumption”. If it doesn’t sound good no one needs to know about it. “We don’t tend to see the truth as something that could set us free.” Now a days people know that when you tell the truth you usually feel between because the weight of keeping it to yourself has been lifted off your shoulders but in small towns everyone knows everything about everyone. You don’t want talk about the dirt on people because then everyone knows. In the secret society for …show more content…
In Can you tell the truth in a small town it says, “people write local histories the way they wished it would have been instead of the way it was”. People didn’t like the truth so they altered the story until it was something that they liked. In the secret society of the starving the pro-ana community talks about the “specialness and uniqueness of anorexia”. The pro-ana community is altering the understanding of the situation to make it seem like a good thing. They are denying the fact that they actually have a problem and what they’re doing is unhealthy. Anorexia and bulimia are not diseases that make you special or unique. These disorders are sad and serious and the people in these communities need help getting healthy not encouraged to continue their bad eating habits by people with the same