For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. Telling the truth results in being trusted, an important element of friendship and relationships. Through the novel The Uninvited by Tim Wynne-Jones, we learn that telling the truth and being truthful to yourself is the best thing you can do. Cramer, Marc and Mimi learn this lesson and prove that being truthful about and to yourself is always better than deception. Cramer learns to come clean through his problems of not owning up to his own actions. Marc learns to tell the whole truth and not partial truth. Mimi however, never lied, she led by example and helped Cramer and Marc learn the importance and meaning of truth. The first character to not be truthful was Cramer. The first way he was not truthful was by not telling his mother about what he had been doing when he was not home. Cramer was breaking into Mimi and Jay’s cottage when Cramer’s mother thought he was working at his part time job. The second way he was not truthful was he didn’t own up to his actions to Mimi. When Cramer broke into Mimi’s cottage he messed up her computer by putting lipstick on her memory card. When Mimi came into get it fixed Cramer does not admit that the one who put the lipstick on the memory card was him. “Hmmm he said scratching his head. Then he turned to the store’s computer mounted on the counter and started tapping away at keys” (Wynne-Jones, 210). This quote is related to him not being truthful because he is trying to disguise what he has done to her computer by making it look like he does not know what is wrong with it. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.” That is a quote from Bruce Lee, which is very true because as shown in the book Cramer did not admit to his mistake and Mimi never did forgive the man who put lipstick on her computer. That is why owning up to your actions is always the best thing. The secon