Lies & Trust Issues

Author’s Note:  In this piece I will explain the theme of the book Dark Secrets by Elizabeth Chandler. Also, how this book reminds me of another book I’ve read that have similar themes.

There are people out there that have told lies and some people that have lost their trust to their close ones. The story Dark Secrets by Elizabeth Chandler, is exactly how the characters are to one another. Lies and trust issues are one of the major themes in this book. Throughout the book the authors tells the reader that lying to people can lose their trust towards people  and create a separation to the ones that are close to you.

Lauren, who is one of the main characters in the book, has gone through so much by the people she loves. She has gone through sleepless nights, being scared, and confused just because of her Aunt and cousins. You can really see how lies becomes one of the major theme in the book  when Lauren knew that there was something that her family weren’t telling her about her mother’s death, all they would say to her was that it was accident. Later she finds out that her mother had drowned in the lake. She couldn’t help but wonder  why they would lie to her face like that and didn’t tell her that is what really happened to her mother. Even today there are people that keep secrets from one  another that shouldn’t be kept as secret. That can affect the person a lot and their behavior.

Not only are people lying, but there are people that would  that can’t even trust  people that are really close to them. That’s just how Lauren felt when she got a note saying “You’re Next” on her car after she was in cemetery, she didn’t want to believe what that really meant. Also, while she was driving, out of nowhere there was a huge brick that hit the tire of her car and she got into a awful accident. She knew that there was someone out there to get her. Everyone made her feel like she was crazy. Now Lauren couldn’t trust anyone, It could have been anyone of them trying to get Lauren. There was no one that she could trust with anything anymore, she felt like she was all alone now.

The theme of this book reminds me of the book Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. Both books have similar themes of lies and trust issues because in the book the four girls had a friend that was murdered and they knew someone in their community had something to do with her murder but, someone is just lying to them about the whole thing. They also knew that they couldn’t trust or become close to anyone because they are getting blackmailed by a person that goes by the name “A”, who leaves them text messages and notes  that says all these stuff saying how they have to do something or something bad will happen to them.

Even though the theme in the book is lies and trust issues ,today this same issue goes around with people lying to each other and losing their trust with people. People don’t think it’s a big thing big thing but, this is one of the most common way people lose their trust with people is when they lie to them.