Report On "The Liar"
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The short story “ The Lair”, is about a mother who is having
difficulty with her youngest son James, because he has trouble telling the
truth. The narrator in the story is James himself telling the readers about
the frustration and anger that his mother is enduring while she struggles
to cure h ....
Middle of paper
.... lying. She thought that she
had him cured until she discovered proof that he was at it again. Now she
is even more determined to make James “well” once and for all. She is a
very strong woman, and has always been the head of her family especially
since her husband started to become ill.
The central conflict in the story is James' mother's frustrating
attempt to cure her son of his uncontrollable lying. Finally at the end
she sends him off to visit his brother, which James only feels as ....
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Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
