I personally think this book presents a short story with so many lessons for the reader. It is about a boy named Scotty and his friend Lora. Scotty has been accepted at Princeton and is happy in life until he faces a difficult situation. Lora goes to Paris with her family for holidays. During this time Scotty meets Shannon, a girl at his school. Things change very quickly as Shannon gets addicted to Scotty. Scotty regrets his action and tries to stay away from Shannon. He is tense, scared and troubled by his mistake. Due to his single mistake he starts lying. He tries to cover up anything that he thinks would uncover his secret.
For this he personally faces a
lot of damage. Shannon kills his pet snake, breaks his fingers and threats him.
Scotty does not want Lora to know about the mistake which made the other night.
Things grow more complex when Shannon threats Scotty. She now wants to inform
Lora about Scotty’s secret. Scotty is very tense. He goes to Shannon’s house to
settle things in a pleasant manner. Instead, things become uncontrollable. A
surprise birthday party turns into a terrible shock.
Scotty tells Lora about the
whole chain of events. She is very displeased and shocked. Shannon takes up the
birthday present- a ski and tries to kill Scotty with it until Lieutenant
Jarmusch arrives and arrests Shannon who was already under vigilance for her
abnormal acts. Lora and Scotty feel relived as Scotty accepts his mistake.
Things get normal and Scotty gets dropped back home.
The lessons which could be taken
by the reader is that trust is a very important relationship, it should never
be violated in any case. A single lie takes you a long way into a sea of lies.
Honesty should be encouraged and deceit should be denounced at all costs.
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