“When you tell one lie, it leads to another.”

                                       By: Paul Hatch

This quote is saying that when you say one lie, no matter what, you will say another lie. It is what humans do. When a person tells a lie, they tell another lie to cover the first one so no one will suspect anything. People tell lies so they can protect themselves for something bad. For instance, there was a young little boy who was taught to never lie from his mother. Then , as soon as his mother left for the groceries, the little boy accidently broke the flower vase with the basketball. He was extremely scared. He didn't want to get in trouble and be yelled out so instead he got the pieces and shoved it in the closet. As his mother comes, she opened the closet and asked who broke the vase. The little boy didn’t wanted to get in trouble so instead he blamed it on his older sister. The sister denied and so did the boy. The mom noticed that the sister was sick all day and couldn’t go downstairs because she was weak. So right away, she knew it was his son. Then the mom told him that his sister couldn’t go downstairs, therefore, the little boy told another lie. This shows that as soon as you tell one lie, it would to lead to another. Even if the lie is small as an ant or big as an elephant, a lie is a lie. And it will always lead to another. Paul states that when you lie, you are closing doors on everything good. In  other words, if you lie, you are choosing the wrong. Lying is a sin and yet many people do it. They do it either to protect others and themselves, they like to make other people feel bad, they do it to protect other’s feelings,etc. If we say lies, others might lie to you as well. In the other hand, if you say one truth, it will lead to another.