You thought you might be in trouble and you lied to avoid it.
When I was about eleven years old, my cousins and I were over at my grandparents house. Everyone was having a fun time playing hide and seek. I ran too quickly and all of the sudden I ran into an expensive glass vase and broke it, everyone who heard the noise started panicking. The glass vase was a gift imported from India, we knew the consequences if the adults found out. I began to act "wise". I said to my younger cousins, "Let's just say the glass vase was hit by a baseball that flew from outside." It sounds like a terrible lie but we were only children. I tried to hide the pices of glass by covering it with a towel. Of course, the adults suspected there was something up and found the mass laying on the floor. When the adults saw the shattered glass vase, they demanded an answer from us. My younger cousins were too afraid to say anything, so I told my planned lie. They didn't seem to believe me so I told another lie. I said Nina, my youngest cousin, broke it on purpose. I avoided responsiblity which was wrong, I should've taken the blame since I'm the one who commited the "crime". Nina was too young so the adults didn't punish her so harshly if they knew I've done it. I didn't tell the truth until this year at the family meeting. It felt much better after I confessed.
In the play The Crucible, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. In act one, people who were accused of being witches blamed it on others. Since anyone accused would be tried then most likely hanged. Therefore Betty and Abigail blame it on Tituba, and Tituba blamed it on Goody Goodman. No one wanted to be hanged of course so they would rather let someone else be hanged. It was what they had to do to surive and get revenge. Lies were just flying around and no one cared to validate them. I lied because I didn't want to get in trouble by the adults, the people in Massachusetts Bay told lies as well, but to avoid big time trouble.
When I was about eleven years old, my cousins and I were over at my grandparents house. Everyone was having a fun time playing hide and seek. I ran too quickly and all of the sudden I ran into an expensive glass vase and broke it, everyone who heard the noise started panicking. The glass vase was a gift imported from India, we knew the consequences if the adults found out. I began to act "wise". I said to my younger cousins, "Let's just say the glass vase was hit by a baseball that flew from outside." It sounds like a terrible lie but we were only children. I tried to hide the pices of glass by covering it with a towel. Of course, the adults suspected there was something up and found the mass laying on the floor. When the adults saw the shattered glass vase, they demanded an answer from us. My younger cousins were too afraid to say anything, so I told my planned lie. They didn't seem to believe me so I told another lie. I said Nina, my youngest cousin, broke it on purpose. I avoided responsiblity which was wrong, I should've taken the blame since I'm the one who commited the "crime". Nina was too young so the adults didn't punish her so harshly if they knew I've done it. I didn't tell the truth until this year at the family meeting. It felt much better after I confessed.
In the play The Crucible, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. In act one, people who were accused of being witches blamed it on others. Since anyone accused would be tried then most likely hanged. Therefore Betty and Abigail blame it on Tituba, and Tituba blamed it on Goody Goodman. No one wanted to be hanged of course so they would rather let someone else be hanged. It was what they had to do to surive and get revenge. Lies were just flying around and no one cared to validate them. I lied because I didn't want to get in trouble by the adults, the people in Massachusetts Bay told lies as well, but to avoid big time trouble.
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