Describe another story that you are familiar with that also has the theme "every tale is not to be believed." compare and contrast how the theme is developed in another story to how it is developed in "the thief and the innkeeper."

“The open window” by Saki

Explanation:

“The open window” is a story about a man with nervous problems, who stays in the house of her aunt for the sake of his health. In the house, he meets his younger cousin, Vera, who tells him that her mother always has the window of the room open because she is waiting for the return of her husband and son, who were lost in the forest and never came back. But they suddenly come, after three years and the man, thinking they are ghosts,  run away. The uncle is confused and Vera smile, because she didn’t want to share the room and told him a lie.

In contrast to The Thief and the Innkeeper where you know the thief wants to steal and you wait for the housekeeper to believe the lie, in The Open Window, you believe the ghost story until the end, because of the mystery of Vera and her family. The thief never changes, he is doing with a known purpose but Vera is strange and is not until the end when you knew her real intentions, the perspective we have of her as a character changes.