Joseph Palleni Lying

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

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