Liar!

What can cause someone become a pathological liar? Does something happen to the brain that can make someone become a compulsive lair? To define a pathological lair is when someone compulsively tell false stories or information with no motivation for personal gain. Through the study of M. Poletti, P. Borelli, and U. Bonuccelli who conducted research to find out exactly what is that makes a pathological liar. As M. Poletti, P. Borelli, and U. Bonuccelli stated, “Pathological lying is probably due…

The play “The Liar” by Pierre Corneille, is a French comedy and love play that was first performed in 1644. Based on The Suspicious Truth by Mexican-Spanish playwright Juan Ruiz De Alarcon, Corneille abruptly produced his comic masterpiece. It starts off by introducing a young promiscuous young man who has come to Paris after claiming he has returned from the wars in Germany. Throughout the play Dorante continuously tells preposterous lies, getting himself into trouble. The new alteration of the…

When I picked up Liar by Justine Larbalestier, I was expecting a realistic fiction book that gave the reader insight into what goes through a pathological liar’s mind. This is not at all what I got. This book is the author’s most popular, set in the present day. The premise is that Micah, a biracial girl living in New York City, is a pathological liar. She swears she is telling the truth, causing a very interesting dynamic. At the beginning of the book, Micah’s “after hours” boyfriend, Zach, is…

A form of pathological liar makes up four percent of our total population, or roughly twelve million people in the United States alone, is destined by blood not made by choice. An abundant amount of people believe that sociopaths are developed due to the results and influences in their past as an adolescence but all sociopaths are born with a brain that differs those of the average human’s. Beverly Bird wrote an article entitled “Sociopathic traits in children” and said, “A potentially…

their consent” (Martin, 2010). Transformative fiction also has the potential to change the agenda the author may have been trying to convey through the literature, such as using characters for minority representation. One example is that of the novel Liar by Justine Larbelestier, wherein one publisher whitewashed the biracial protagonist for the cover and Larbelestier campaigned for a new cover, arguing that it was “important to have someone who looked like [the protagonist] on the front”…

Disney is a liar! It lies about truths in its media. Furthermore, my topics of argument are social, cultural, and historical aspects of Disney’s media. These are present in High School Musical, Aladdin, and Pocahontas. In order to increase educational value, Disney should improve the accuracy of the social, historical, and cultural aspects of their media. Disney lies about social life of kids and teenagers in their media. Disney’s media stays away from the truths of real social life, and the…

Liar “So I hear you had a hard day at school sweetheart.” The doctor looks at me with a melancholy smile. “Why don’t you tell me about it?” I look down at the floor. One of the purple tiles is out of place, in the line of the blue tiles. “Wondering where to start?” I nod. My hair falls in front of my eyes, and I let it become a barrier between me and the doctor. “You don’t have to start at the beginning yet, maybe just talk about how you felt today.” I squeeze my eyes shut, and soft brown…

In most families, the role of a parent depends solely upon the relationship that they have with their children. In Alan McMonagle short story entitled Liar Liar, the author portrays the main character of the story—the father— as the epitome of a great man, in the eyes of his naive son. The main theme of Alan McMonagle’s short story Liar Liar is relationships. In the story, the father uses the gangster western films to communicate with his son in order to fulfill the desires of escaping his…

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and We Were Liars by E. Lockhart both involve the main characters The Age of Innocence and We Were Liars both have many similarities such as relationships, and sometimes lying. In The Age of Innocence Newland Archer and May Welland became engaged which showed the love they have for each other in the beginning of the book. In We Were Liars Cadence had a crush on Gat and they spent time with each other on various activities. Also, Newland and May spent time…

Woah, there's a fire! In We Were Liars one of the main conflicts is that there was a fire. In this essay I am going to tell you about a book called We Were Liars. It is called this because Cadence, the protagonist and her friends made a group together. This group is called Liars. There are two main conflicts in the book. One is the fire and the other is that Cadence can't remember the fire. The first big conflict in the book is that the aunts argue a lot. They are arguing about who gets what…