Trust Me Would Lie To You Christine Seifert Analysis

Trust me would lie to you? This is non-fiction text written by Christine Seifert. It is a collection of history’s forty most outrageous lies and liars ranging from Mary Toft, who pretended she gave birth to rabbits, to Marmaduke Wetherell who claimed he found the Loch Ness monster. Some of the stories are well known, like the city of Troy story with the trojan horse, but others are more obscure like Benjamin Franklin who pretended to be a middle-aged widow. Whoppers offers insight on exactly why these people decided to lie and how they did it. Some people lied to make their fathers proud and others did it to just make a living but there is one thing all the liars in Whoppers have in common; people believed them. They were so convincing that