Lie

A lie is like an eclipse covering the sun. The lie affects everything that it touches; it can cause crops to die from not sunlight, like people can die without truth. However the truth will eventually come out, and the crops will right themselves, but people cannot. Sometimes a bad truth is better than a good lie. Like the sun behind the moon the truth will eventually come out for all to see, and it is better…

From solid storytelling to movie magic, Divergent succeeds on almost every level. It's everything from being action packed, breathtaking, to thrilling, with a well founded storyline. Divergent takes places in a society that is divided into five factions that civilians must dedicate themselves to. Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is informed that she is Divergent and will never fit into just one faction. When Tris finds out the scheme by Erudite faction leader Jeanine Mathews (Kate Winslet) to…

Phony Phoniness Have you ever noticed that things are not always true in life? Besides all the truth, there exists phoniness. You may hear at least a lie everyday without even noticing it. Someone knows much of it, though. J.D. Salinger, the author of the Catcher in The Rye, introduces the theme of phoniness in the book by using the perspective of Holden to claim that people around him are phony and even Holden himself is a phony person and also by providing a contrast to emphasize the…

Cheating, lying, and untrustworthy; all examples of an unreliable narrator. An unreliable narrator is defines as a narrator whose credibility has been compromised. “The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Strawberry Spring”, by Stephen King, and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, by Edgar Allen Poe all have unreliable narrators. Each story has an unreliable narrator however, the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” has a mental illness and tells many lies and thinks things that are not…

Growing up is not about what is wrong and what is right but it is about taking responsibility for yourself and dealing with the consequences and live your ambitions and dreams. So basically being grown up is about how you deal with situations in a mature way. Growing up is not an easy process we must all go through in life. Everyone grows mentally and physically at their own individual rates and the process between being child and being an adult, there are certain behavior and attitudes that all…

Have you ever been tricked? There were many scenes in this play that showed Macbeth tricking others into doing his dirty work for him. He managed to trick others into believing something about someone that wasn’t true and also he managed to hoax them into killing the person. The trickery going on today may not be life threatening, but it does not take away the importance of addressing these issues that I will be explaining in this essay. This is mainly going to be about all of the little…

book by constantly saying, “All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” (Orwell 51). Clearly Joseph Stalin was an extremely dishonest dictator who felt that the only way to secure is future was to lie to the world about what was really going on, and clearly this was extremely similar to the way that The Party acted within…

Alexis Ramos Mrs.chestnut Honors English IV 16 November, 2017 I Break the Rule I did not expect to do it nor did I plan it. Therefore, what made me do it is the question. Dan Ariely explains why we lie cheat and steal things. He says we steal things but never anything as a general that will harshly affect another person or place significantly. The night I decided to sneak out and go with friends out of the blue all started with a message & a rebellious feeling in my chest. Why did I like it? Why…

Lying everyone does it and “studies show that the average person lies several times a day. Some of those lies are bigges although this may be true more often than not, the lies we tell are little white lies” (psychologytoday.com). Serial podcast is an online series where host Sarah Koenig talks about real life news in a story like format each season. Season 1 deals with the 1999 case against Adnan Syed convicted with murder of his then ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee and 17 years of age. With his…

The romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing a play by William Shakespeare, showcases how deception can be viewed in more than one manner. These deceptions rely on the sender, and their tricks and lies can come with good intentions. This play celestially reveals how characters are deceived and how the tricks uncover their emotions, and why they behave in a certain manner. The use of lies and deception in Much Ado About Nothing highlights the idea that tricks and plans are not just for villains…