For my groups essay on The Importance of Being Ernest, our subject was about dishonesty in the book and the different levels that were used throughout the book. For me, three major happenings in the story that involved dishonesty was not very hard to find. The first one is Bunburying. Bunburying is a major part of the story because Ernest lying about his name seems to confuse everyone about why he even would want to change his name. He explained how his name is Ernest in the city and Jack in the country. The dishonesty led to a conversation about how Jack is a boring name and how Ernest is a much better name that suites him well. Another topic which is not as major is when they lie about “running out of cucumber sandwiches” at the beginning of the story. This is untruthful since he had ate all of the sandwiches before Lady Bracknell arrived. A final major part of the book that involves dishonesty is when Algernon pretends to be Ernest’s brother. This is a major part of the book because Ernest is very mad at him for pretending to be his brother, however later in the story it is discovered that they are actually true brothers. The commentary that I have written down supports the thesis by clearly explaining how parts of the story involve the dishonesty and what level it is on.

Since we didn’t have the chance to make sure we are using different concrete details within our own paragraph, here are my concrete details that I have.

1.Bunburying

2.Lying about cucumber sandwiches

3.Algernon pretending to be Jacks brother.

We also need to talk about the different levels that were involved, so we might want to each do a different level. If you guys want to do the different levels, or something else, just comment about what we are supposed to, and then write which topic you want to write about(different levels or other, and then what its about) and what level it is on in the book.