Hurt Me With The Truth In The Truman Show

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“ Hurt me with the truth, don’t try and comfort me with a lie.” My claim is that truman is hurt by the truth that everyone has told him about his lifestyle and how he was born to be watched all of his life. Truman is so upset that he doesn’t want to be comforted by all the lies either because it will not help him in his case. In the Truman show Truman was adopted pretty much to be in a reality show all of his life and was supposed to be the star which he was until he found out what everyone was doing and he was not the star anymore because he was not doing anything afterwords. Truman was thinking that he was living a normal life and he thought that he had all these friends but they were acting because they are actors. So the meaning of quote

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