deception

I watched the movie "Easy A" which starts with Olive lying to her best friend Rhiannon to get out of camping with Rhiannon and her hippy family. Olive did not want to go camping with Rhiannon and her family but also did not want to hurt her best friends feelings by telling her that she did not want to go. So instead she decides to come up with a lie that will provide a reason why she cannot go camping and will also not hurt her best friends feelings. The lie that Olive comes up with is that she has a date with a college guy named George. After the weekend is over Rhiannon asks Olive about her date. This causes Olive to have to build more lies on top of the one lie she already told. She ends up saying she lost her virginity to the college guy she went out with. This is overheard and spread throughout the entire school. Olive then decides to use the school's rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing. She lets guys pay her to pretend to have had done some sort of sexual act with them. This is creative because first she finds a lie that serves the purpose of being getting out of camping and not hurting her best friends feelings along with being innovative. Next, when the lies take on larger scale she uses them to advance her status and to make some extra cash. This takes her innovation and usefulness of lying to a much larger scale.