Can You Tell The Truth In A Small Town Analysis

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We all have some experience telling something that is untruthful or just an outright lie. You go looking for a way out of a tense situation when you need it most? Are you afraid of what happens when you are under stress, do you tend to be "creative" with the truth? In the story “The Secret Society of Starving” by author Mim Udovitch, girls that are suffering from eating disorders talk about the secret world of the online pro-anorexia (“pro-ana”) community. It is only there that they can truly express themselves and even motivate other anorexic people. Similarly, in the essay “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town?”, Individuals struggle to put their true words down on paper, knowing that if they do the secrets they share could result in them being ostracized from the only community they know, . In both “The Secret Society of Starving” and “Can You Tell the Truth in a Small Town?” The writers explore the different lifestyles of two communities and how they both seem to encourage individuals to hide the truth from the rest of the world, their lies compounding and culminating in their further removal from the community and their loved ones The people represented in the groups from both essays …show more content…

Although similar in the sense of how they feel, the two groups are very different in the ways they go about dealing with their problem and also the reasons why they must feel isolated from everything else. Between the “secret” society and the small town society, one way of life may not be any better than the other, but the shared repressed feelings of can be connected not only to each other, but can relate to almost every person in any community at one point or

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