Nothing But The Truth Philip Malloy Quotes

Many people run into a problem they don’t want to deal with like finishing essays or doing taxes, but this job has to be done. In the book Nothing But the Truth by AVI, the main character Phillip Malloy is put in this situation where he has to increase his English grade to join his track team. To avoid this he tries to get out of his English teacher’s class by humming during the national anthem and creating a disturbance, leading him to be sent to the office where he talked with his admins later being suspended. Afterwards telling a fake story that would anger the public and threaten the school’s budget vote. Phillip Malloy's refusal to admit he was in the wrong consequently put his school in a bad light.

Phillip’s denial to admit he was

Phillip Malloy is a 9th grader just starting high school and is trying to get on the track team. But when Phillip finds out he can't join the track team because of his failing English grade, he decides that he has to, “find a way to get transferred”(31 AVI). Phillip decides he needs to get out of his English teacher, Ms. Narwins, class. Believing that Ms Narwin hates him and is the reason for his bad grades. Adding on he believes this is his only way to get on the track team. Forgetting the fact that he could ask for more work to raise his grade. Later on when Phillip is told to go to the office by Ms Narwin for disrupting the class. He goes to talk to Dr. Palleni and tells him,“She’s wrong. That’s all. She’s wrong. No way I’m apologizing.” (61, AVI). Phillip now believes that he did nothing wrong. Which creates a turning point in the story. But now he is starting to forget why he was doing this in the first place. Additionally, Phillip’s refusal to apologize even when given the opportunity too is acknowledged by his mom when she says,“they said you could apologize” Phillips’s replies “Nothing to apologize about”(70 AVI). Because of Phillips' refusal to apologize he is more rapidly becoming

After news reports find Phillip’s story of him being kicked out of class for patriotism. Dr Doane, Dr. Palleni and Dr. Seymour the administration of the school are put into question“Joe, what this reporter said—told me—it was for singing ‘The Star -Spangled Banner.’,”(AVI 96).Phillips story has been released to the public, so everyone now knows the story made by Phillip. With this wrong information spreading like a wild fire the school is being seen in the wrong way. This is bad for the admins because they need to win the budget. Additionally, after the story goes out of Phillip’s side of the story. The upcoming budget vote to help the school with money the admins worry:”With the budget vote soon…and the school board—“(101 AVI) the administrators are worried, the public will react. This could be catastrophic if the people were to think of the story wrong. Without the budget vote being accepted the school could run into some major problems. Especially with paying for the school's upkeep. As a result of The public's poor view of the school and its teachers is very negative. During Jake Barlows talk show a parent said:“Jake, I am a mother. I have three kids. All school-age. But if I had a teacher like that… I’d take my kids out of school”(112 AVI). Now the public is mad. Many people are sending messages to Ms. Narwin for what she did, the public’s view on what happens is only from what