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Lying is sometimes okay to protect yourself or someone else you love from…
Lying is sometimes okay to protect yourself or someone else you love from getting hurt
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Things They Carried
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Of Mice and Men
George lied to lennie to keep them working for what they wanted during the great depression. He protected Lennie from getting hurt. -M
What did he lie to him about?
"george said softly,"- i think i knowed from the very first. I think i knwed we'd never do her. He usta like to hear about it so much i got to thinking maybe we would' (steinbeck 94) -S.W
George knew from the beginning they would never achieve their dream, however he kept telling Lennie the story because it made him happy to hear how great their life would be. S.W
George also lied to lennie telling him he would never leave him. "you ain't gonna leave me, are ya, George? i know you ain't. George came stiffly near and sat down beside him. "No" he then began telling lennie about the plans they made together giving him falso hope before he he killed him. -S.W
The mice symbolize false hope.
-M
How so?
The dream was just an allusion to George. He knew it would never come true. He still told lennie the dreams because it made him happy and kept him believing it would come true. -S.W
"I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why."(Steinbeck 14) -T
How was this a lie?
What significant lie does George tell Lennie at the end of the novel? What is the purpose of that lie?
"A thing may happen and be a total blie: another things may not happen and be truer than the truth" (O'Brien 74 ) - S
O'Brien wants the readers to believe the war story is true, although most of it is his imagination. -S
Janie
Blanche lied about her past to protect her new beginning of a new life. -S
Protects Blache from people seeing her.
Stanley lied about what he did to Blache to protect his relationship with stella. -S
"I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes,yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them.I don't tell truth, i tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it." (Willams 117) -T
"Daddy, tell the truth, "Kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody?" And i can honestly say "Of course not. Or i can say, honestly, "yes". (O'Brrein 180) -S.
Fear
Horizon
All janie husbands lied about how they was going help her and take care of her and they all hurt her feelings. -T
He didnt want to tell her her the truth about him killing someone because it could be hard for her to understand why he did it. Sometimes children take it hard when someone dies. He didnt want his little girl thinking he is a bad person. -S
“Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches” -T
Symbolizes love
Blanche lied to protect herself -T
