Liar, Justine Larbalestier, Week 4

This character's name is Micah Wilkins and she is compulsive liar. This character is very deceiving because she convinced everyone on her first day of school that she was born a male. She also told them that she was born a hermaprodite. I feel that Micah can control her compulsive lying because after she lies, her conscience always contradicts her lies. The idea that I have about her from my reading so far is that she is not close to her mother nor her little brother. The only person Micah trusts is her teacher Yayeko Shoji. I feel that she only trusts her teacher and her father. Micah blames her compulsive lying on her "family disease." She is a very misunderstood person.

In my opinion, Micah gets critisizm because she is a compulsive liar and she seems not to care about the feelings of the people she is lying to. When someone makes up a lie about her, she does not correct it because she likes the attention. This goes back to how I stated earlier about how much of a deceiving person Micah is. I also believe that Micah can receive praise. For example, after Zach Rubin was murdered, everyone at school accused her of killing him. Micah still continuously came to school after being called a freak, murderer, and liar. A student by the name of Brandon Duncan harassed her constantly and she still had the courage to come to school. Also, another student named Sara Washington followed Micah home, but Micah had the courage to face Sara and talk about Zach Rubin.