Truth & Reality
Truth and Reality had be mention more and more because now a day the society is reality and material. Truth means that which is in accordance with reality and fact and reality means the quality or state of existing or being real rather than imagined. In book “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time”, there is also relate to truth and reality.
In story, Christopher’s father tells a lie to Christopher, and in Christopher’s mind that is a big lie. Christopher think that is not right because Christopher don’t like lies, but in Christopher’s father’s mind, it’s reality because he don’t want to hurt Christopher any more, he had lie to Christopher that his mother is in hospital after that, father only can follow the lie that mother is dead. That is the different between children and adult. Also is the different between simple and complicate mind. There is a kind of lie that call “mercy lie”, it means that somebody talk a lie that is good for others, this always appear in invalid and families, if somebody is cancered he/she family always don’t tell to he/she, they also said it’s only a little problem. That is a mercy lie, also like Christopher’s father, he tell a mercy lie to Christopher, it’s a way to protect Christopher’s innermost being, that don’t want Christopher sad about his mother.
Christopher has a simple mind and he thinks truth is the real, like if somebody kill a person, that must be wrong, but in Christopher’s father’s mind, it might not, for example in war, kill enemy is for protect ourselves. So Christopher’s father lie to Christopher is to protect Christopher’s that don’t let Christopher be too sad. For example, American had send army to the Middle East and attack. In American government official’s mind is a really good thing because they can liberate the people that had been depress by tyrannical government and country can get more oil from the Middle East. But in America and Middle East’s people’s mind they think that is a very bad thing because this makes many people die by war.
Sometimes truth is not truth but reality is truth. As the society is become more and more complicated, more and more people believe “reality” is “truth” but not “truth” is “truth”. “God is died.” Said by German philosopher Nietzsche Friedrich, but when we think deeper we can know that god won’t die, so why does Nietzsche said “God is died”? Nietzsche is mean that people don’t believe god anymore, in other words, god haven’t die but people treat god like die, people don’t believe god anymore. Science and technology have made huge strides that people discover electricity, physics, computer, nuclear, nanotechnology and so on that human being knowing more and more, they don’t believe there is god in world anymore. Many people live like dead walking, they don’t have religion, they only know how they can earn more money and they don’t care other, “can the God create a rock that he can’t carry?” “God create the universe and the Earth, so where is god before god create the Universe and the Earth?” Atheist always said. That is why more and more people care about physical but not psychological, so human being is more reality.
Everybody has the same comprehend to Truth, but nobody has the same comprehend to Reality. Christopher’s mother has her own comprehend between lover and husband and child. She choose to give up her husband and her child that go with her lover, that is her own comprehend to reality, she think she’s leaving is not only good at her but also good at her husband, they don’t have love between she and her husband and she know she easy to mad, she don't want tangle with her husband anymore. The one who take care of Christopher, her husband is better than she. About Christopher he believe his fate depends on different color of cars, 4 red cars in line is a good day; 4 yellow cars in line is a black day; 5 red cars is a super good day. Christopher know many truth like in math and science, but he don’t know many about reality, because in society is very complicate, he don’t know others body language, he don’t know others simile and metaphors, he don’t understand when other saying very fast. In addition, as Christopher said: life is like prime number, there are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all of your life. That is his way of reality.
In conclusion, life is complicate, same times truth is not truth but reality is the truth, also for reality comprehension, nobody has the same.
参考资料：我老公的脑袋