How could he be a good boy and a bad boy at the same time?
The TRUTH is what is. FICTION is not realitybut it can help us to see the TRUTH through stories, e.g., The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
LIES deceive, for evil purposes, and for good purposes. But what happens when what we think is the TRUTH turns out to be a LIE?
In his ninth decade, the author, who has spent his life creating FICTION to examine TRUTH, decided to write the story of his life, truthfully. But, in the process of examining his lifehis prayers, works, joys and sufferingshe discovers it becomes more and more difficult to distinguish the TRUTH from the LIES. And the chief insights into the reality of a life he thought noble, his FICTIONoften in the form of dreamsreveals his true nature as a failure in his professed faithuntil a good woman shows him the way out of his dark forest.