The Other Side of Truth

The Other Side of Truth is a novel written by author, Beverly Naidoo. The novel is of importly based on telling the righteousness and lying, and when it is adept to do either. In the book are various types of situations where characters need to sack up a decision on whether to lie or to tell the justice. Beverly Naidoo provides the repair decisions and the prostitute ones in the story. Naidoo shows in the novel, when it is ok to lie and when it is not. Naidoo suggests that if your life is in danger it is considered ok to lie, exactly if you assume your life is still in danger when its actually not you might accidently lie to the wrong people.Naidoo displays this when Sade and Femi find the father in a detention core and ask him why he is not able to come game home with them. Folarin says that he cannot because Sade lied about who they were to the officials. Now the officials do not believe Folarin when he says that they are his kids. There is a sthrong message that sometim es one lie is ok in the right circumstances, but consecutive lies could end you up in a lot of trouble. An historic quote from the book states this idea, A lie has seven winding path, the truth has one straight road. pg. 148. Lying could be a very perilous thing, telling the truth is the best way to go, but even the truth can land you in trouble. The truth is a very almighty thing, it is important that you tell it, this is portrayed by Naidoo in her novel. Naidoo has based the safe and sound novel around the truth. In the story it is used when it should and shouldnt be. Folarin Solaja is the main protagonist in the novel when it comes to the importance of telling the truth. He states some(prenominal) quotes about how important in his mind, it is to tell the truth.