The Sandlot Analysis

Have you ever had to lie to keep your friend out of trouble? Have you lied to keep yourself out of trouble? Lying can be a bad way to get out of situations if not used with caution. Most people have lied before so as to not get into trouble. I have lied a few times myself. However, lying can be helpful in many ways like to help get out of trouble in certain situations. It can also help to get respect or recognition from friends or family. Lying, if used in the correct situation, is not always the wrong thing to do. One way that lying is okay in the right situation is in a situation when a group of friends know something, and the one clueless friend lies about knowing what the friends were talking about. I can relate this situation to a scene from a movie called the Sandlot. In this movie there was a scene where the main charracter was talking with some friends about a guy named "The Great Bambino." He didn't know who that was so he lied about knowing who this person was. The same principle applies to situations outside the movie world. This is what I call a friendly lie which is where someone lies about something that doesn't really hurt or negatively effects a person. Lying can also save someone from getting in "trouble" like lying about doing the chores when this person really didn't do it. This is one way that lying is helpful and not bad. …show more content…
What I mean in this instance is like when people go hunting and that person kills a deer. Then said person goes back to their school/work and talk about how it was a twenty point deer when it was really only a four point deer. The person still lied about something but it did not hurt or negatively effect someone. People also lie to help a friend like saying this person did this awesome act of kindness when he/she really didn't do it. This is another way that lying is not always bad when practiced with