Ninth Grade Slays

    In the book Ninth Grade Slays by Heahter Brewer is about a ninth grade boy named Valdimir Tod. Vlad is half human, half vampire. The idea of him being the "pravus,"( a legendary vampire that rules over all vampires and enslave human) is the main cause of problems in this story. Lies are used in amny ways, in our world and Vlad's.

    Vlad lies a lot in the story to hidee his biggest secret and keeo him alive. Egar, (a geeky that goes to Vlad's school) saw many unique things about Vlad. For example one day Edgar followed Vlad to Vlad's secret hide out and discovered that Vlad could fly. A that Vlad lied was when Vlad and Edgar were outside of a party and Edgar saw Vlad's eyes flash purple. Edgar was surtain that Vlad wasn't human, but Vlad said," I'm just a kid, like you. Now leave me alone, okay?"  Vlad also lied to one of his best friends named Joss who happens to be a vampire slayer. Joss said he was sent to Bathory, (where Vlad lives) because his boss said there was a Vampire there. That Vampire happened to be Vlad. Vlad had to lie, even if it had to be to someone he cared about. People lie a lot in our world.

    People lie in our world, too. A common reason to lie for teens involve grades. Teens lie about grades when they do bad on report cards or do bad on a test. People lie about their  personality. It's because they are are so different at home compard to they are in person. A lot of people lie for a lot of reasons, but it's usually not as bad Vlad's lying reasons.

    We all lie. It's apart of human nature even if it's just a white lie. Not all lies are bad, for example Vlad's lies. They life and death reasons. Lies like the ones that teens do aren't nessasirily bad, they're just not good reasoning backing it up. So if you are to lie, lie for an important reason, not just to do it.