Everyone knows that saying the truth and being honest is fundamental. However, sometimes it is not always easy to be truthful, so we end up having to lie. Some reasons for those actions could be because we are afraid of being judged by others, not ready for the truth ourselves or we may be afraid of hurting someone else’s feelings when saying the truth to them. Although, being truthful to yourself and others is important, it is not always followed. Therefore, one may say that it is much easier to just lie than to tell the truth. Using four selective short stories from the book “A Kind of Flying” by Ron Carlson, I will depict each story and describe the different reasons behind why people partake in the act of lying and why people chose certain things to believe and not believe. Using credibility as one of the major themes, Carlson strongly gives a sense of truthfulness when in fact it is not truth.
Using these first two stories: “Bigfoot Stole My Wife” followed by “I Am Bigfoot”, Carlson is able to jump right into the topic of credibility. He even begins “Bigfoot Stole My Wife” by saying “the problem is credibility.” (Carlson79) One day, after he came home from the racetracks, which was a daily routine, he finds that his wife is gone, half her clothes were also missing and there was “something that made [him] sick.
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This short story is one that I can figuratively relate to. In this story, there are two teenagers named Jack Cramble and Jill Royaltuber who were spooked by something out of the ordinary. One evening they were in their car at a placed that Cramble called Conversation Point. According to Cramble, they were reviewing files and he was helping Royaltuber with her argument. As they were in the car, supposedly working on papers, they heard noises and scrapes on the car. The part that makes the story seem unbelievable, is when Jack says they were at Conversation Point but Jill says they were at Discussion