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Lying as a Response to Fear by himynameisbobg is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Fear causes people to react differently, including through lying. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck lies and says he has no slaves on board his raft when confronted by men, in order to protect his friend Jim. The narrator also gives an example of a classmate who lied by cheating on a test he was unprepared for due to fear of getting a bad grade. Both Huck and the classmate responded to fear by lying, though the outcomes of their lies differed. Lying is presented as a common human response to exper
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