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Joseph Palleni Lying

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60% of adults can't have a ten minute conversation without lying. This relates to the book because lying is a key character trait in the novel Nothing but the Truth, Avi, Realistic Fiction. The book is about a teenage boy that wanted to be on the track team and was hoping to get into the olympics, but an unexpected rule about having passing grades to be on the sports team changed everything. In the novel Dr. Joseph palleni, Philip and superintendent Seymour Changed the outcome of the book by lying. Dr.Palleni changed the reason for suspension to save himself from looking bad.“silent attention” His first reason for suspension was because Philip broke this rule. He backed up his reasoning with the school policy if you break a rule twice in …show more content…

This hurt his dad's feelings and Philip was using his anger of not being on the track team on others. “I won’t waste time on english.” In the book Philip repeatedly said the teacher had it out for him but admitted in the beginning that he didn’t try in english. If he would have tried he would have gotten a passing grade and been on the track team and not tried to annoy miss narwin and not have gotten suspended. Philips actions triggered events leading to a nation wide lie. Superintendent Seymore didn’t notify the press about the rule for the star spangled banner their for committing an omission lie.“Please all rise and stand at respectful, silent attention for the playing of our national anthem.”Superintendent Seymour acknowledged this was a rule. Once again another character lies to make the school or themselfs look or sound better. “There is no rule that prohibits a student from singing if he/she desires.”He ignored what he knew was told to the kids every morning to take the blame off the school and limit to the faculty involved.Again this put more blame on others than himself causing the people being honest to look like they are lying. Seymour was one out of many that lied in the book, Nothing But The

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This results in the chain reaction of events. Philip Malloy was humming along with the National Anthem in class instead of remaining silent, resulting in his teacher Ms. Narwin to scold him (page 35). He believes he did nothing wrong, and continues to do so (page 49). This is where he starts bending the truth. “Yeah, well, it’s sort of a... patriotic thing with me.

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In the beginning of the novel, Phillip demonstrates giving up in the event of Timothy trying to teach him how to weave beds out of palm fronds as stated by Phillip when the book and Phillip states, “I didn’t want to work... ’I tell you I can’t see!’... I screamed” This shows his lack of determination and drive to accomplish his goals. In the middle of the novel, Phillip uses his intellect to give him a little drive towards making a better signal fire as stated here, “...I knew I could not live this way...

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