~Quotes~
- “Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” -Dishonesty is an obvious theme due to the fact that they play a lying game. This quote lets Emma know that she honestly cant trust anyone.
- "Maybe I'd been a prankster when I was alive, but from the other side, a staged murder definitely turned the proverbial stomach of a girl who'd just been killed."-This quote represents change in character when Sutton, after she's dead, realizes how sick the Lying game was. Seeing it from Emma's perspective made Sutton realize how disturbing the game was.
- “I looked over Emma’s shoulder. I recognized the girls in the photos. I understood we used to be close. But they were like books I’d read two summers ago; I knew I’d liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they’d been about.” -Represents that Sutton is fading away where death has taken the toll on her changing her perspective of reality where her friends seemed like strangers probably die to the fact that she wasn't able to trust them.
- “The air smelled like a mélange of everyone's perfume and hair products, with a slight undertone of booze.” -The booze represents the dishonesty of the girls because even though they are underage, they drink in the house anyways. Later when the mom comes into the room to check on the girls, they had to hide the booze quickly before they were caught.
- “At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.” -This quote makes the reader realize how dangerous the girls in this book were due to the harsh game.
Theme-Dishonesty- Glass Castle Vs. The Lying Game
Dishonesty is a theme used a lot in both of these novels. In the Glass Castle lies are told in Jeannette's family all of the time; her father always said that he would build her and the family a glass castle in the desert to live in; but that's just the beginning. Although Jeannette's family often starved in lived in unfit and disheveled houses, Jeanette's mother was lying the whole time and actually had money that they could of spent on food, clothing, and other necessities. Her mom never told the kids that they actually did have money until they were all grown up and the dad never ended up building a glass castle. Dishonesty is used quite often in The Lying Game in order to prevent Emma or anyone else from getting hurt by Sutton's killer along with that intense pranking game where you could trust no one. Basically, the theme of dishonesty is just to protect people from the harsh truth and reality.
"Terrified" by Jordyn Kane
This song helps represent the novel of The Lying Game by the lyrics relating to the story plot and help explain the situations happening in the novel.
"Why was it broken
From the start ?
Not given a chance
To fall apart"
These lyrics represent the relationship between the long lost twin sisters, Emma and Sutton. They were separated at birth so therefore it was "broken from the start" and never had the chance to be put together.
"Who's going to save me
When the tide pulls me out ?
If I have to fight
I might need your help"
Emma goes looking for Sutton in Arizona when she eventually discovers that Sutton is actually dead. Emma was basically pulled out by the tide, represented in the lyrics, and Sutton needs to help Emma discover who her real killer was, "I might need your help".
"When you're back to give up
I'm the one who will pull you through
Heroes together
Save the world, me and you"
Represents that when Emma wants to give up in finding Sutton's killer, Sutton will try her best to help as much as she can, being dead and all. Therefore if they're working together to solve this harsh mystery then they are, "Heroes together",
This song helps represent the novel of The Lying Game by the lyrics relating to the story plot and help explain the situations happening in the novel.
"Why was it broken
From the start ?
Not given a chance
To fall apart"
These lyrics represent the relationship between the long lost twin sisters, Emma and Sutton. They were separated at birth so therefore it was "broken from the start" and never had the chance to be put together.
"Who's going to save me
When the tide pulls me out ?
If I have to fight
I might need your help"
Emma goes looking for Sutton in Arizona when she eventually discovers that Sutton is actually dead. Emma was basically pulled out by the tide, represented in the lyrics, and Sutton needs to help Emma discover who her real killer was, "I might need your help".
"When you're back to give up
I'm the one who will pull you through
Heroes together
Save the world, me and you"
Represents that when Emma wants to give up in finding Sutton's killer, Sutton will try her best to help as much as she can, being dead and all. Therefore if they're working together to solve this harsh mystery then they are, "Heroes together",
TV Show Vs. Book Series
The TV show is based on the novel, "The Lying Game" hence why the show is called, The Lying Game. The TV show and the book ,although based on the same story line, share quite a lot of differences while also of course sharing a few similarities. A large difference between the show and the novel is that in the beginning of the book we see a character named Sutton, Emma's long lost twin sister, in a film where she is tied up and apparently being strangled and one of Sutton's friends "kidnapping" her which all ends up being part of the lying game (a prank games the girls play against one another) where in the TV series there is no hint of pranking of the "Lying Game". Another difference is that in the novel Emma discovers her long lost sister, Sutton, online after seeing the video while in the TV series Sutton and Emma video chat before they decide to meet up in Arizona. Also in the book Sutton is dead while Sutton watches Emma pretend to be her so that no one will figure out that Sutton is missing- Emma spends the whole novel trying to figure out who Sutton's killer is while in the TV series Sutton is alive and well and instead of the plot being Emma trying to figure out who Sutton's killer is, the story line changes in so that the girls switch places to go in search of their true birth mother. Although there aren't many similarities, one similarity is that most of the characters have the same name, they share the same title of, The Lying Games, and they both still revolve around the characters of the long lost twin sister, Sutton and Emma.