We all lie, in one way or another. Whether it’s a simple white lie about how they look or blaming your brother for something you did. Stephanie Ericsson shows in her essay the ways people lie to get what they want or make themselves look better; showing this by personal experience and examples. She proves that is nearly impossible to eliminate lies from our life and how many lies have been adopted by our culture and many things have been based on simple “harmless” lies.
First, she breaks everything down into each individual type of lie and uses logos to convince the reader. By giving examples of how she lied four times in one day because she didn’t want to face the consequences of what she had done. She avoided a 60$ overdraft fee, and a family argument. Only to point out and show what lying can do for you and how much the truth really hurts.
Second is how different ways lies affect you. As you all know there are the white lies and the blunt lies. But, as Ericsson stated, many lies have been have been adopted into our culture such as stereotypes and clichés. Also, many people don’t realize the effects of the simple lies, which Ericsson points out again with logos, showing how the stereotypes separate social classes and groups of different people because of them. Right now the Mexicans are looked at as a source of work instead of as regular U.S. citizens. Every day we face different kinds of lies, but our culture has grown accustomed to classes and different cultures, destroying the connections between the different groups of people.
Finally, lies have become part of who we are. You can be as honest as you try to be lies will still become part of you every day speech; engrained in your DNA. When ever you look at someone no matter what judge who they are yet you have no idea who they are. In our society today lies are a part of who we are, those who say otherwise are fooling themselves.
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6 comments:
You showed the variety of ways that lies affect our lives which was very helpful in understanding the authors purpose. After showing how much was avoided by lying, you stated that it pointed out “how much the truth really hurts.” I wasn’t sure if this was a posative or a negative thing. She benefited from lying but do you think that it “hurt” her in the long run?
I like how you told about all the ways the author explains why everyone lies.Even a little white lie, is still a lie.I agree with what Alicia said about how it could hurt her in the long run by lying about something thats not really that important. Good job!
Good post. I read "The Ways We Lie" and thought you summed it up very well, but you could have mentioned her tone or sentence structure or fluency just to add a little bit to the analysis.
This is a very good explanation of the essay. I also thought it was helpful that you stated the different ways that people lie, and the outcome of them all.
I thought that your post was very well written. Although, I agree with Nicole, it seemed as though you mostly summarized.
You really connected to the subject of the essay. Now I know we shouldn't lie.
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