In this blog assignment, there is a reading by Lulu Wang called “What You Don’t Know.” In the narrative, it tells us a time the writer had to lie to protect a beloved family member. It explores the internal and external conflicts the family has about lying and everyone’s point of view on the situation. The choices could either have a huge impact or no impact at all. What would you do? Would it be a different or similar experience as the writer? Was there a moment where you had to deceive someone and did it have a major impact on you or someone else?
Did you agree with the family's choice to deceive Wang's grandmother? I agree with the families decision to keep her illness a secret from Nainai because I felt they were trying to protect her feelings because they knew the cancer was terminal. People can easily become conflicted between an internal and external conflict. Sometimes when both types of conflicts are present, it causes confusion. There are conflicted choices that could have a major impact not only on yourself but other people as well. All depending on the situation the outcome may be in favor of either party. Potentially if her family chose to tell her about cancer, it could have had its benefits in the long run. In Lulu Wang’s Narrative titled “What You Don’t Know”, she describes a time she and her family had to lie to keep a loved one safe from the truth to avoid her world falling apart. When have you made an important choice to tell someone a difficult truth or you made an important choice to tell a lie that had a major impact on you and/or someone else? There are moments in people's lives where a single choice can have a positive effect on their future. Oddly enough there hasn't been on many occasions in my life where a choice has impacted someone else. I can only recall a few lies in my teen to recent years that has had an impact on myself. Honesty is an important virtue and I do my best to incorporate it into my everyday life. The only major lie I have ever told was a few days after my 21st birthday. I told my parents that I was going to accompany my friends to the movies. Instead, I had plans of my own. My friends, girlfriend, and I went to a friends house in Media to celebrate my 21st the way I wanted. What started off as a fun night, quickly turned into a nightmare. I woke up in a bathroom at a different house. I blacked out and have no memory of how I got there, only the stories my friends told me Along with the stories, I also had a massive hangover that I will never forget. I made my friends swear to never speak a word about what happened to my parents because I knew it would change the way they perceived me due to the lying.
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9/26/2017 07:21:56 pm
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Sabatino
9/27/2017 02:44:18 pm
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9/27/2017 03:52:56 pm
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