The Role Of Deception In Suzanne Young's Play

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Suzanne Young’s book, “The Program” is about a character named Sloane. She doesn’t want to be taken away by the program because they take depressed people and erase their minds. But she gets taken anyway, but she doesn’t get fully brainwashed and she has to go through a adventure of finding herself. The main idea of deception runs through the entire story and creates a complex lesson which creates you to think that deception makes people hide their true being, so they hold a grief which makes them do things they never thought they would. Deception can disguise your true feelings. From the beginning of the book the author quickly shows that everyone in the book is sad. The details in the story show that no one can trust anyone in the story. …show more content…
“That’s James Murphy who you're currently eyeing, he’s in my science class but he doesn’t say much” thinking this shows a deception of emotions because Sloane is creating an emotion over James just by eyeing him, as James creates a deception of a scheme therefore it creates feelings for Sloane. To put it differently James is the “cute” guy at the school, but really he is quite and all he does is getting in fights with handlers. Moreover “Has anyone in your family die? Yes. My brother, But what do I fill in? The program doesn’t think I have memories I nearly break off the tip of my pencil filling in no.” To illustrate Sloane has true emotions and the program doesn’t know that which makes her “hide behind the crowd”. As thinking it shows Sloane can’t truly be herself because she can’t show that she still contains memories. The author creates a craft of description, feelings/emotions, and cliff hangers. Realizing the author include these parts. Moreover it shows how deception gets created in the story and how people resolve the scheme (deception). The author also used these types of craft because then she makes you feel the deception like your the character the one getting schemed. She shows you the true deception in the

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