Philip And The English Teacher Miss Narwin's 'Nothing But The Truth'

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“The truth does not cost anything, but a lie could cost you everything”. In the book Nothing but the Truth, Philip and the english teacher Miss. Narwin have issues with their relationship, which will lead to many problems. Based on their actions, Philip, Ted Griffin, and Philips parents are to blame for the end of the story of Nothing but the Truth. Philip Malloy is a freshmen at Harrison High and plans on running track this year, Philip has many friends and even a crush named Allison, his life is going up until he has to go to english class with Miss Narwin. In Miss Narwins english class Philipp messes around and cracks jokes and Miss Narwin does not approve, all she wants is for the kids to make a good connection with english and pay attention.This …show more content…
Therefore Philip cannot be on the track team, so Philip blames Narwin and begins to not like her. Later in the book Philip is switched out of his original home room, which was Mr. Lunser, he was transferred to Miss Narwins home room. Philip causes many issues in Narwins home room, The big one is Philip hums during the National Anthem and tells everyone he is Patriotic when he really is not. The rules state that you must be quiet and respectful during the song, but Philip hums just to annoy Miss Narwin because she gave him an F. Days go by and Philip keeps doing it and finally Narwins send him down to the office for a second time. Philip is mad about this situation and ends up telling Ted Griffin and his parents this whole lie about …show more content…
In the book Philip comes home one day and is upset because of Miss Narwin gave him an F, then another Philip came home another day mad at Miss Narin for sending him to the office for humming during the National Anthem. Philip tells his parents this and encourage him to fight for his rights. So Philip goes to school and hums again, and fights for his rights, Narwin sends his to the office and Philip gets suspended. Due to his suspension Philip and his parents go to Ted Griffin and get the story out the world. If Philip did not come home and lie about being patriotic and go back to school and fight for his rights this whole mess would not

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