Fiction Book prt. 5

In the back of the book I have once again found an interesting question to ponder.

"Mattie says that at the Glenmore she learned "when to tell the truth and when not to." Under what circumstances might it be better not to tell the truth?"

This question is interesting to me especially because it reminds me in a way of good and bad ethics which is what we're doing in class right now. To answer the question I think it would be better to tell the truth when it's a minor thing. Like for instance you broke your mothers vase. She asks who did this and you should just simply reply and tell her the truth. It will save you probably a minor punishment and your mother will be happier that you didn't lie. A circumstance where it's probably better to lie than tell the truth would probably be, kind of like the example we used in class last week. Let's say Jon has 2 friends that have a website that makes fun of teachers and has inappropriate messages on it. The principle finds out and brings Jon in for questioning. Jon can either tell the truth and loose his friends or lie and pretend he doesn't know anything about it, and still have his friends trust. This can go either way but, I think Jon would probably lie to keep his friends trust and knowing others in society if this happened to them they would probably do the same thing.