Essay On Scat By Carl Hiaasen

That stories teach us about life is a main idea in the book Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook the Readers From the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron. This main idea connects to a major theme in the book Scat by Carl Hiaasen, which is lying for a good cause. Many characters in the book Scat lie for the greater good. All of them lie for different reasons, though at first it is not clear why. As the plot progresses, the reader finds out that they are all breaking the law for the same cause: reuniting a panther cub named Squirt with his mother. His mother was scared away by a gunshot from one of the antagonists, Jimmy Lee Bayliss. One of those characters who doesn’t always tell the truth is Mrs. Starch, who lies early on in the book, saying she has a family emergency, when she is actually taking care of Squirt. The plot begins with a fire in the Black Vine Swamp on the day all of Truman's High School science classes have a field trip. A girl named Libby drops her asthma inhaler during a wildfire in the swamp so Mrs. Starch goes back to get it. After she locates the inhaler, Twilly, the man who found Squirt, brings Mrs.
Starch. At one point in the story, Dr. Dressler, the head of the Truman School, where Mrs. Starch teaches, has been contacted by Detective Jason Marshall, Libby’s dad, who is investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Starch. They decides to go to her house to see if she is there. When they knock on her door there is no response, so they decide to call her. She does not answer, but the voice message says as follows: “Hello people. I’ll be away from school indefinitely because of an unexpected family matter” (p. 88). This quote represents lying for a good cause because even though Mrs. Starch does not have a family emergency, she is saying that she does to watch Squirt. Hiaasen is trying to show that it is ok to lie if it is to save someone or