Christopher Boone Lies

“On a given day, studies show you may be lied to anywhere from 10 to 200 times.” (Meyer 4:06). Lying is not just a cooperative act in order to bend the truth, but a way to bridge a gap between real life and a figurative life. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Christopher Boone encounters many lies, mysteries, and adventures in his quest to discover who killed his neighbor's poodle. Consequently, Christopher is dealt innumerable lies creating numerous difficult circumstances, causing Christopher to contemplate who he can genuinely trust. Christopher’s father betrays him through his efforts to fill in the gaps in their lives, his self-deception, and his white lies. To begin with, Christopher’s father betrays Christopher

White lies are usually used to prevent the hurting of someone’s feelings. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Christopher’s father uses white lies to deceive Christopher without establishing more questions about Christopher’s mother's flee. In everyday life, people lie extremely often, causing it to be difficult to tell when someone is actually lying. According to Pamela Meyer, “Lying's complex. It's woven into the fabric of our daily and our business lives. We're deeply ambivalent about the truth...We're against lying, but we're covertly for it in ways that our society has sanctioned for centuries and centuries and centuries. It's as old as breathing. It's part of our culture, it's part of our history.”(Meyer 4:59) In fact, the reason behind Christopher believing his father’s lies is because they are familiar in a way. Ed lies to Christopher, because of habit more than to protect anyone. Although, Christopher’s father used mostly white lies to protect Christopher from the harsh truth, he does it because of the emotion that goes along with them. Even though Christopher has a difficult time showing emotion he becomes upset. According to Paul Ekman in Lying and Deception, “Lies are also betrayed by signs of emotions. The simplest case is one in which the liar attempts to convincingly fabricate an emotion that is not felt. Few people are very good at this, although most of the time people get away with it, because rarely does the target of such a lie care whether the emotion displayed is feigned or real.” In short, Ed Boone betrays Christopher by his white