Tuesday, February 8, 2011

"Liar"

This book we recently started reading is called "Liar." I think the significance of this title is because the main character always lies, or she used to always lie, that is until she decides to tell her story to us by being honest. I think that the main character should be given some kind of praise for being honest with the viewers because she used to always lie and thats a big thing to go from being a liar to telling people she doesnt know her story by being completely honest. I think she must have a reason that she always lied and hopefully we as the readers will figure that out. I think that the reason she decided to share the story by being honest is because a classmate of hers said she was the reason her boyfriend Zack is dead, and I think she feels like she should explain her story by being completely honest, so as people know she did used to lie a lot, but now she is going to tell us the truth. I really like this girl, and I commend her for telling her story as she knows it and for being honest. She could easily lie to us as the readers the entire time and we wouldnt even know, but the fact that she started the  book off by telling us she is a liar and that is all in the past, and that she will tell us what happend by being honest is a big thing. I think she used to lie to the people she knew because then she could be anyone she wanted to, and not the person she saw herself as. A lot of kids I think try and do that, try and make a new person for themselves because they dont like who they are. Im sure her life is far from easy, or that she had a good life, so maybe she thought by lying, or just not telling the truth was something she could do and get away with it, or obviously be good at it and fool everyone. Im very interested in this book already, that I continued on after we were suppose to stop after 65 pages, Im really curious to see who this girl is, and what happend to her boyfriend Zack.

1 comment:

  1. Hilary, these are excellent predictions. One of the really cool characteristics of the novel can be equally frustrating...and that is the fact that Micah is an unreliable narrator. We'll talk about this lots in class.

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