Have you ever told a lie to someone you know like your parents or your friends? In the book And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street the main character Marco walks to and from school everyday and lies about stuff he sees on the way. Dr. Seuss uses characterization of a boy to demonstrate the theme of lying and how it is wrong. In the book And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street Marcos' father tells him to stop lying and over exaggerating every thing he sees. The general idea that Macros' father was trying to tell him was don’t stretch the truth because it will cause you trouble. Some text evidence of this is when Marcos father says "Marco, keep your eyelids up and see what you can see.Stop telling so outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into …show more content…
Marco doesn’t realize that it is bad to tell lies and just keeps going on with his life. Marco tells lies about what he sees on Mulberry Street because he thinks it's too ordinary. Even though he has been told many times by his father not to lie he still goes on with lying about what he sees. Text evidence that supports that is his saying "Just a broken-down wagon that’s drawn by a horse."and "That cant be my story. That’s only a start. I'll say that a zebra was pulling that cart." To explain these examples he keeps telling lies and changing what he sees until he makes it into a huge parade that he saw on Mulberry Street. Throughout the story he still lies about what he sees and turns his little broken down wagon into giraffes and elephants and cops and much more. At the end of the book Marco runs in the house and was about tell his father lies about all the things he saw but then changes the lies back to the broken down wagon. Finally, in the end he realizes that it is wrong to lie. Marco even shows how he realized and says, "Nothing, I said, growing red as a beet, but a plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street". Through the whole story Marco tells lies and then he notices what