The book I chose to read was "The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney". What I'm gonna be focusing on in this Reading Response is how a small lie can turn into multiple lies. The book is about how a girl thought one harmless lie would go away. But it didn't.Thesis : How one small lie can turn into many more lies.
One observation i learned was that you shouldn't lie. Because you'll always suffer consequences. It's because when Devon lied to her friend Lexi about how she is popular at her school, even though people barely know her at school. She told her that she was going out with Jared Bentley because hes the popular boy in school. And he doesn't even know she exist. She also told Lexi that she hangs out with the popular kids at school, but they didn't know she existed.Devon thought that she would probably never see Lexi again so that's why she told her all those lies. But then on the first day of school Devon was tight because Lexi showed up. What she could have done was tell her the truth from the beginning but she didn't know how.
Another observation i saw is that only saying sorry would let people for forgive you. You have to prove to them that you actually mean it when you say sorry. In the book Devon said sorry to Lexi and to everyone she hurted and expected to be forgiven. But she realized that she actually had to do something. Like when Lexi forgave her she told Jared to ask out Lexi , and that proved to Lexi that maybe Devon was sorry.
The text relates to the real-world because when you say a small lie, and you don't want to say the truth, your just gonna have to make up more &more lies.One small lie can lead to 50 other lies. I think that before you lie about something you should think about it. And if you end up in Devon's situation just stop when you realize you might get caught.
I really like your post, I like how you keep refering back to the text. I also like how you show that sometimes a little lie can turn into a huge deal.
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