Living A Lie

Author's Note: Watching the Truman Show in class reminded me a lot of the novel I had just finished reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Both of these things had a similar theme lying. The main characters in the book and movie both were lied to and both tried to find the truth and I wrote this piece tng to compare and contrast what they did to find the truth. Also I think the theme of is lying ok came up in the movie as well as the novel.

Being lied to in the first place is wrong, and then to find out that everyone was in on this major lie makes you feel even worse. Truman and Chistopher were both lied to about big things that happened in their lives and they both used determination to find out the truth. Lying isn't the exact right thing to do even thought we all lie because there will be a time when lying will back fire.

Parent's lie to their children all the time to protect them, but really what are they protecting them from? Eventually they will find out most kids will end up mad or sad. Most parent's lie to their kids about the Easter bunny or Santa Clause and say that they are real but when the kids find out from  their friends or even their parents they feel betrayed. Truman espeacially felt betrayed in the movie because of how many people he had trusted and how there were in on this giant lie that was used to entertain America. Chistopher from The Curious Incident of the Dog and the Nighttime relates to Truman as well because he was betrayed by his father about his mother and parents are supposed to be people that are trusted.

To make sure that these characters never found out about what people were lying to them about people made sure that they were fearful of something that had to do with the lie. We live in this world were parents force fear upon their children. You often hear parent scolding their kids saying "If you do this again you will have to go to your room for a lifetime" and they lie to keep their children in fear. Once the kids are in fear they will stay there and think twice befor doing what they were told not to because they know if they do it they will have to face whatever the fear was that their parents forced upon them. Trumans  fear was water and that's how the producers of the Truman Show kept Truman in his own speacial world that they had provided for him, and whenever Truaman brought up ideas about leaving the island people shot his ideas down, so they thought that he would never try to leave. Chistopher was a kid with autisim so no one ever thought that he could leave to find the truth by himself because he feared groups of people and chaos. Both characters managed to do exactly what they weren't expected to do to find out the truth in life.

Lying for big thing most of the time will backfire at you, and most of the time it will affect you negatively . Truman and Chistopher were both lied to about big things and now they can't trust anyone really. Lying about little things is ok but lying about things that could impact someone's life isn't the right chioce to make.