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Why Did Nat Hocken Lie
It is terrifying to think that the fate of the world is in thousands of deadly birds. When his small children were I. This situation, Nat Hocken chose to lie to them in order to keep them calm. He should have lied to them for many reasons. These reasons include the following: they were scared; they were too young to know the truth; he was responsible for protecting them and keeping them calm. One main reason he should have lied to them was because they were too young to know the real story.

Nat Hocken lied to his children about the deaths of their friends because they were too to know the truth. He told them that their friends had not died because it would be too much for children their age to cope with. They were also too young to understand

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