Maggie+Introduction+Draft

====Why people usually do not have the courages to tell the truth but choose to hide? Actually, everyone were taught to be honest and no one wants to be a liar because that is the unwritten conventions of our society. However, people still lies. Consider the book //Atonement//  by Ian McEwan. The girl, Briony Tallis, a sucessful English girl with a talent for writing and also imagination, accuses her sister's lover Robbie who is innocent, and identifies him to the police as the rapist who raped her cousin. This decision directly leads to a tragedy to Robbie and Cecilia and since then they eternally missed each other untill they both died in World War ||. In this context, an aribitrary imagination just generates a lie and causes a tragedy which would not happen without this lie. Overconfidence, sometimes, can be a reason why people lies but not tell the truth and it is also attribute to people's bias. Their first impression on things or people are too strong to eliminate and change. And they also do not have the courages to admit what they thought before were wrong.====