“Smack!” was the sound as Timmy was smacked by his mom for saying her food was bad. This is like Sekhar from “Like the Sun” who tells the truth and is punished by the headmaster. Honesty is not always the best policy because you can lose friends, you could ruin something secret or tell a secret, and you could get into trouble.. Firstly, you can lose friends by telling the truth. In “Like the Sun” Sekhar tells his co workers that their dead colleague was a mean brute. After he told his co workers this they gave him a mean scowl and stopped talking to him. If people asked if your friend did something that was bad and you tell them that he did, he will not trust you and he will want to defriend you. Secondly, you could ruin something secret