This Boys Life LIES & DECEPTION

Question 1

6 key points

Answer 1

Fulfilment 
Exposure,
Acceptance 
Self-deceit 
Escapism
Identity

Question 2

Fulfilment

Answer 2

Jack often lies,throughout he novel but he doesn’t see it as wrong because he believed, usually wrongfully that he can fulfil those lies.

Question 3

Exposure

Answer 3

Jack is afraid of Marian and Arthur as they know and can expose who he really is.

Question 4

Acceptance

Answer 4

Jack is unable to accept the consequences of his lies because he believes in his lies.

Question 5

Self-deceit

Answer 5

Jack not only deceives others, he deceived himself in his search for identity.

Question 6

Escapism

Answer 6

Jacks self deception is a way for him to escape from his unstable life and enter a safe stable fantasy world.

Question 7

Identity

Answer 7

Jacks lies are an opportunity for him to reinvent himself and find an identity to replace who he truly is as he does not like himself.

Question 8

8 quotes

Answer 8

Fear
Rosemary 
Imitation
Control
Truth
Jews
Arthur
Marion 
Self-deceit

Question 9

Fear

Answer 9

I burned the envelope and note In the sink and washed the ashes down the drain.

Question 10

Rosemary quote and meaning

Added meaning on night before English trial exam, phantom pain was free this month, just had legal and psych trial exams today which you did little study for but they turned out okay in the end. Might as well date this edit - 5/10/17

Answer 10

Those words still sound to me less like Hope than an epitaph, the last lie we tell ourselves before hurling ourselves over the brink.

Mom’s talking about getting married to Dwight here and how it’s all going to be okay. She’s lying and he’s believing the lie for her sake, a dynamic that shows up a lot in Jack’s story.

Question 11

Imitation

Answer 11

I did am imitation of somebody receiving divine reassurance and inspiration.

Question 12

Control

Answer 12

My mother didn’t tell me what went on between her and Roy, the threats and occasional brutality with which he held her in place.

Question 13

Truth

Answer 13

It was truth known only to me but I believed in it more than I believed in the facts arrayed against it.

Question 14

Jews

Answer 14

His family had always been Jews but I had to wait ten years before learning this.

Question 15

Arthur

Answer 15

I could not accept that he knew I was not the person I tried so hard to seem.

Question 16

Marion

Answer 16

She knew I was not the young gentlemen I pretended to be.

Question 17

Self-deceit

Answer 17

We did so in a resolutely innocent way, without ever admitting to ourselves what the real object was: that is, to bring somebody down.