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Dark Complexion: The Narrator Of The Story

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William S. Paley once said, “White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion,” however there are times where lies can save or help others when the truth can possibly harm them.
Christopher, the Narrator of the story, has told multiple lies throughout the story as a way to continue his detective work of who murdered Mrs. Shears dog; even after his father explicitly told him not to. He was willing to go against his own words that was spoken earlier in the story: “I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie,” to relentlessly pursue the incident. Throughout the entirety of Christopher’s life he was told his mother was dead

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