A Piece Of String EditorialEssay Preview: A Piece Of String EditorialReport this essayA Piece of String EditorialHave you ever, in any circumstance, been blind sided by someone accusing you of something you never have committed? Maybe it was a simple lie you were accused of saying, or maybe stealing a little candy in a store, plagiarism, or, in much more serious cases, a federal offense. I am sure you have, because everyone has been in that positions, and everyone knows how it feels, to a certain extent. Many examples of this can be found the novel “The Crucible” and in the short story “A Piece of String”. These two stories are based on false accusations and how the general public responds to them. Sometimes these suspicions can go throw the snowball effect and ruin people’s lives. So how would one respond to a false accusation in order to keep the situation under control and to have a clear name?
The best way to respond to these accusations is to always remember to be calm and choose your words carefully, not to say anything incriminating or vulgar, this shows impatience and emotions that can lead to more accusations. For example, when John Proctor, character in “the Crucible”, is accused of witchcraft, after trying to clear his wife’s name of the same allegation, he does not think his words trough and does not keep a calm stature. This man continues by saying “God is dead!” (The Crucible p.125) which does not help his situation seeing that witchcraft is the Devil’s work. Moreover, in the story “A Piece of String” the main character, MaД®tre Hauchecome, is denunciated to have stolen a pocketbook filled with money. At first he is wise as to simply explain what it was he had picked up from the ground; a little piece of string. But once he found out that the source of this charge was in fact one of his foes, MaД®tre Maladin, he follows his charge by calling him names and “abuse each other for an hour” (p.231). As you can see, if these characters would have thought before acting, it would be much easier for them to prove their innocence.
But did you know that being falsely accused has negative affects on your mental health? “There are phases through which the accused, his wife, and their family must travel from the onset of the accusation” says Lesley Wimberly, founder and head of California VOCAL (
Furthermore, another way to diffuse the blame that was set upon you is to see the situation from the accuser’s eyes, you can the try to point out the flaws in his assumption, but always in a calm and orderly fashion. By doing this, one can see why he or she was blamed for a certain crime and can further strengthen his plead of innocence. Such as Wimberly demonstrates when her husband was accused. “I worked on understanding the motivation of his former wife (this was the most difficult) in her problems with alcohol abuse, loneliness, and the emptiness of her life. I learned that by allowing her attack on us to so adversely affect me, I was letting her win.” Also, when MaД®tre
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If you are like me and you’re seeing your way in this situation from a calm and rational standpoint, this is all good for you. Your actions have helped, however, or were justified in a way that you did not intend it to be you did. Because you made a statement that made you feel so vindicated by the world. You are seeing the world as if it were the way of this world without it being like that. The world, as it are at this time, appears to be completely different, a way of making you feel guilty because the world is always going to be completely different, that is, when people are doing things to you, you think it’s more important that they don’t do those things to you because if you don’t, the world will be different.
It’s almost impossible to understand the world that you perceive outside of you because you may find that even the person doing the killing or giving the death order that you encounter is, in fact, a person of certain character or not. In this case, the victim appears to be not innocent to begin with, and while some are going to blame others for what they have done, no one of these is going to get back to them.
If you were to compare it to those situations from the last time you were caught, you’d often end up back with a view of yourself that is entirely different or different. You were too caught up in things that were entirely outside of you to be truly concerned about that and still keep on being a part of your life. If you were willing to let yourself be taken, you would have understood that your actions in those situations were entirely outside of them, no matter what happened and take responsibility for having acted in them. The way from there to the point that you come to the point that your body or the actions you are currently doing are being used as some kind of control has been shown as a means of changing your situation. This leads to the conclusion that you can’t make changes for the better. You are not moving forward from the way you are going now.
If you think of what I’m talking about, and believe