Taylor Allison Swift once said, “We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them they have chosen to show us.” Have you ever wondered how truth, perception, and reality are connected? The novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers addresses the concept and explains how they relate to one another. Truth is often changed by perception to create a different reality. A similar theme is developed in “Tell-Tale Heart” except the author uses a different text structure.
Walter Dean Myers uses his book Monster to develop the theme that reality and truth can be altered by perception. The author states,” I’m not guilty.” Then later he also states, “I know I did the crime and I got to do the time.” (Myers 138-139). This is an example from the book showing that the main character Steve is actively lying to try and persuade the jury to find him innocent. Another time where Walter Dean Myers shows how truth, perception, and reality are connected is in the quote, “I don’t know exactly where I was when the robbery took place, most of the day I was going around taking mental notes about places I wanted to film for a school film project” (Myers 231). Steve had become a
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The author of the short story uses a man as the main character. He is trying to convince his audience he isn’t crazy. Walter Dean Myers uses a teenage boy writing a movie to prove to his audience he is not a monster. They both take the reality of a situation and twist it to fit a different truth. In the “Tell-Tale Heart” it states,” I smiled,-for what I had to fear? I bade the gentlemen welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream.”(155). This is how since the officers didn’t know what happened the man made up a story so that the officers would perceive him as innocent of any crime. In this piece of text what the officers perceived to be the truth wasn’t the reality of what