Honesty

Honesty and the moral choices that come along with either being honest or dishonest is a central theme in this novel regarding the character of Jeremy Johnson. While there is no religion mentioned in the novel, Jeremy follows a moral code typical of the main positive character of a fairy-tale, doing his best to stay abreast of the law and out of the moral gray. His moral guide, interestingly enough, it not his mother or father, as the former has left the family and is dead at the time of the novel, and the latter is a depressed shell of a man who does not even have the willpower to leave the house to find work to save them from being evicted. Jeremy can't even turn to his grandfather, who he had a good relationship with, because he is also dead. As a result, and through...