The book the sweet hereafter: in three or four paragraphs, compare and contrast the irony of nichole's reasons for lying to the court about the accident to another well-known character who lies that you have encountered in literature. which of these characters had a better reason to lie: your character or nichole? which of these characters got the outcome they hoped for when they told the lie? what does the irony in each story say about the nature of truth and lies? (note: some famous literary liars you might consider writing about are: elizabeth proctor or abigail williams from the crucible; odysseus from the odyssey; romeo from romeo and juliet; tom or daisy buchanan from the great gatsby; arthur dimmesdale from the scarlet letter; the narrator or marla singer from fight club; cyrano or christian from cyrano de bergerac; sheherazhad from arabian nights; huck finn from the adventures of huckleberry finn; pip from great expectations, or a liar of your choice from a book or play you have read/seen)

The italian merchants sometimes sailed across the mediterranean sea to syria, where they could buy black pepper that had been grown on the southwest coast of india. the tiny dried black peppercorns were the perfect item to trade, because the small ships of the time could carry enough to make a nice profit. from india the pepper was shipped across to arabia, where camel caravans would carry it all the way to syria. the italians could purchase enough pepper in syria to carry with them to the next champagne fair. every count whose cook added the bite of costly black pepper to his food knew he was getting a taste of far distant lands. as late as 1300, jean de joieville, a french writer who had actually lived in the muslim world, still believed that these spices came from the outer edges of the garden of eden, located somewhere along the river nile. there, people “cast their nets outspread into the river, at night; and when morning comes, they find in their nets such goods as . . ginger, rhubarb, wood of aloes, and cinnamon.” –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos which details from the text support the central idea of this passage? check all that apply. (a)- “sailed across the mediterranean sea to syria” (b)- “grown on the southwest coast of india” (d)- “from india the pepper was shipped across to arabia”