Write a story with the title ‘The Truth’.
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To Tell The Truth….:
“Who did this?" asked my teacher.
Thirty children tried to think about not only what they had done, but also what our teacher may have found out.
“Who did this?" asked my teacher once more.
She wasn’t really asking. She was demanding an answer.
She seldom became angry. But she was this time. She held up a piece of broken glass and asked, “Who broke this window?"
“Oh, oh," I thought. I was the one who broke the window. I had not done it intentionally. It was caused by an errant throw of a baseball. I was working on my knuckleball. It needed more work.
Why did it have to be me? It wasn’t really my fault. If I admitted guilt, I would be in a lot of trouble.
How would I be able to pay for a big window like that? I didn’t even get an allowance. “My father is going to have a fit," I thought. I didn’t want to raise my hand.
But some force much stronger than I was pulled it skyward. I told the truth. “I did it."
I said no more. It was hard enough saying what I had.
My teacher went to one of our library shelves and took down a book. She then began walking towards my desk. I had never seen my teacher to strike a student. But I feared she was going to start with me and she was going to use a book for the swatting.
“I know how you like birds," she said as she stood looking down at my guilt-ridden face. “Here is that field guide about birds that you are constantly checking out. It is yours. It’s time we got a new one for the school anyway. The book is yours and you will not be punished as long as you remember that I am not rewarding you for your misdeed. I am rewarding you for your truthfulness."
Do not be like persons on whom advice has no effect. They require punishments to improve them. A sensible man acquires guidance through advice while brutes and beasts always improve through punishments.
When a person lies once, he starts a circle of lies. It becomes a vicious chain that never ends, where the liar falls deeper and deeper into a grave that he dug for himself. Let’s look at little Anna who stole her best friend’s puppy.
Anna’s best friend Ella had a cute little white puppy. Anna always wanted a puppy for herself but she was never allowed to have one, because both her parents went to work and there would be nobody at home to take care of the dog. So one day, when Anna was visiting Ella, she hid the puppy under her coat and brought him home because she hated to say goodbye to the little pup.
She hid him in a box, in the garage and played with him for hours. She lied to the maid and stole scraps of food from the kitchen to feed him. Everything was great in Anna’s world for a few days, but then one day the puppy escaped from the garage and nibbled on all of her mother’s shoes. Anna’s mother was livid and started yelling at the security guard for letting stray dogs into the house. Anna had to lie to her mother, to save the poor security guard and told her that it was Anna who had left the gate open. She also had to lie every day to her parents about why she could not complete her homework on time or why her clothes were always so dirty.
When she went to visit Ella again, she saw that her best friend was sick because she missed her little puppy very badly and Ella’s parents were trying everything possible to locate the lost puppy.
Soon Anna realized that she did not want to dishearten everyone she loved and that she was falling into a web of lies that she herself had spun. She returned the puppy to Ella who was elated to see her favorite puppy again.
Now Anna was able to complete her work on time and keep her clothes clean. Anna did not have to lie to anyone anymore and everything was set right in Anna’s world again.