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 The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, is about an ordinary girl who lives in New York and goes to school and isn’t exactly popular, but one thing happens that flips her world upside down, and changes everything. Her father comes to town with some news about his country Genovia. It turns out Mia’s father is the Prince of Genovia [which Mia never knew], which means Mia is Princess of Genovia, when her father is ready to give up the thrown. Her father had cancer, and they got rid of it, but when it came back, her decided to tell Mia, since he realized his time is short. Even though her life got turned upside down, and she changed in many ways, she still kept a bad habit; lying.

First, [before Mia life changes] she lies to her mother and her close friends, just out of habit. For example, she lies to her mother about her feelings for multiple things. One, her feelings about her relationship with her father [since they aren’t married], second, about her feelings about her friends, and thirdly, about her mother dating her algebra. Mia is currently failing algebra. Her mother then tells her to write down her feelings in a journal. Clearly, I think Mia has trust issues with her mother, and with people she is close to.

Also, Mia lies to her best friend about a couple things. Mia lied to her best friend Lily, who she has known since kindergarten, about her feelings about her mom dating her algebra teacher. In addition, Mia lied about her liking Lily’s older brother Michel, because Lily thinks it would be so weird if Mia and Michel dated, since Mia was friends with Lily first. Lastly, Mia lied about the secret that turned her life around. Mia didn’t tell anyone, but when the press found out, and Lily found out she wasn’t one of the first people to know, she got really mad at Mia. For a while it was hard for Lily to forgive Mia, since she lies all the time. Lily wants Mia to stop lying, because if she doesn’t stop she is just going to keep doing it. 

In conclusion, I think Mia lies to people is because she is scared to deal with the reaction of the people who find out the truth. But when she does she their reaction she keeps not telling them, because she still doesn’t want to deal with the consequences. But she keeps doing it, and it because a bad habit, that keeps going around and around like a cycle that never ends, because she is scared to break it, and deal with the truth, whether or not the truth will hurt people, Mia needs to learn who to tell the truth the first time, and break her bad habit.