The good lie and Everyday use
Uploaded by scam655 on Nov 13, 2024
ELA 3
4/22/2024
The Good Lie
The name of the story"The Good Lie" alludes to situations in which lying might be an ethically appropriate course of action. Many would call this a white lie, a lie used to do something good or to help somebody.
In the film The Good Lie, Reese Witherspoon has a character who plays a lady who helps a group of Sudanese immigrants settle in the United States by helping them find work and ultimately facilitating their reunion with other family members. These people had lost their families and were left to fend on their own, thus giving them the name, “The Lost Boys of Sudan”
Many of the recently arrived Lost Boys were not put in foster care since they were beyond the age of 18 and hence deemed adults. Due to this, they were put into apartments which took longer to do. Another issue was, at the same time they didn’t want to separate all the people because they had known each other for a long time and all they had was each other.
Since all the lost boys had no family, they had no real way to confirm their identities. When they came to the United States they were just given the birth date of January 1st for simplicity sake. The date of January first was simple and it was easy to remember and keep track of. In the United States we all know our birthdays and since we have always known our birthdate it seems easy to keep track of. However, for someone who is foreign to that concept it may not be simple to remember.
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Everyday Use
In an effort to connect herself to her African background, in the short film, Dee has adopted customs that are at odds with those of her own family. She proceeded to then change her name from what it was to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo.
Dee desperately wants to show off the quilt to her friends,but her mother believes that her sister, Maggie, would use it more frequently and wouldn’t simply use it to show off their culture. The mother has had enough of Dee's pride and vanity as well as her self-centeredness. She tells Dee that she is not allowed to have the quilts since they are Maggie's. Dee, who is upset over the news, continues, "Maggie will overuse the quilts, like, every day, and eventually ruin them." In an attempt to make...