Is it ok to lie?

 Is it ok to lie? Maybe yes but maybe no. There are lots of examples of lies in trash. Raphael, Rat (Jun), Gardo and sister Olivia lies a lot. Raphael, Rat and Gardo is a dumpsite boy, who sifts rubbish, they lie to live and survive. They don’t have any power so the only thing that they could do to survive was to lie. In this book they lie to protect the information of the mystery, such as “I didn’t’ find a find bag, sir’” (page 61) Raphael is trying to protect the information of mystery.

 If you lying for the good reason such as 'my grandfather's in prison, ma'am, and I want to go and see him.'(Page 80), in my opinion it's ok to lie in this situation because his lying to help someone.

 I think when you lie to make someone feel better such as 'we get visitors, you see.  It’s mainly foreigners visiting the Mission School which they set up...I always smile and say, “Sometimes, sir! Sometimes, ma’am!’ What I really mean is no, never - because what we mainly find is stupp.' (Page 4), it depends on them who is listening to the person who is lying, in the book they are lying to make people feel good about them and the mission school.

 Also in this book there are lot more stuff going than lying such as stealing and cheating and police corruption.

 Example of cheating is when sister Olivia and Gardo went to colva prison to see Gabriel Olondriz but the prison officials make sister Olivia to pay to see Gabriel Olondriz. Other one is “the reason i am in this jail is that i brought corruption charges against senator Zapanta,” Gabriel (page 101) meaning Gabriel Olondriz is in the jail because of senator of Zapanta brought a corruption but instead of senator of Zapanta going into the prison, Gabriel Olondriz was thrown to the jail.

 Also one of the stealing was when ‘then suddenly, Rat had turned and he had a key in the lock. Nobody shouted, nobody even noticed. I was ten paces on when I heard the sound of a door closing, and then Rat was next to us again, and I could see he had something under his arm. – Raphael’.

Moreover police corruption was a lot in this book, but one of them was when police hit Raphael and be violence and being racist to poor people.

 In conclusion, the lies in this book are ok because they lie to survive and also they lie to find out the mystery. However the police shouldn’t lie and be racist to poor peoples. Moreover stealing is bad but in some case I think its fine to steal and also cheat for those kind of reason.