Theme Judith Viorst wants readers to know the results of lying; although after people told a lie, they have to keep “lying in order to back up the lies that are backing up the lie” (208). The worst thing is the liars have to remember what they said when they lied. An additional effect…
In the article "The Ways We Lie" the author, Stephanie Ericsson, tells the tale of how frequent individuals lie in our world of today. Hence, she decided then to completely tell the truth for an entire week realizing, lying was somewhat of a natural instinct that many had to do at least once. Furthermore, Stephanie then began to categorize different types of lies in order to justify the reason as to why one would lie in that given type of way. Therefore, she placed lies in categories such as deflecting, white lies, omissions, facades, dismissal, ignoring the plain facts, group think, delusion, and out-and-out lies. In the end, she had gotten fired from her job, added stress to her personal relationship, and hurt others.…
Telling the truth all the time is nearly infeasible. Stephanie Ericsson’s essay titled, “The Ways We Lie” breaks down the activity of lying into subcategories of the different kinds of lies we tell on a daily basis. In addition, Ericsson’s essay manages to point out the elemental role that lying plays in our lives and our culture. We all lie, whether to abstain from confrontation, spare people’s feelings, conveniently forget, keep secrets, or even to justify our own words and actions. By clarifying the extent into which we all lie, Ericsson begins to insinuate the many, many ways we fib, by listing and describing each lie in it’s natural element.…
Telling the truth all the time is nearly infeasible. Stephanie Ericsson’s essay titled, “The Ways We Lie” breaks down the activity of lying into subcategories of the different kinds of lies we tell on a daily basis. In addition, Ericsson’s essay manages to point out the elemental role that lying plays in our lives and our culture. We all lie, whether to abstain from confrontation, spare people’s feelings, conveniently forget, keep secrets, or even to justify our own words and actions. By clarifying the extent into which we all lie, Ericsson insinuates a plethora of ways in which we fib, by listing and describing each lie in its natural element.…
Telling the truth all the time is nearly infeasible. Stephanie Ericsson’s essay titled, “The Ways We Lie” breaks down the activity of lying into subcategories of the different kinds of lies we tell on a daily basis. In addition, Ericsson’s essay manages to point out the elemental role that lying plays in our lives and our culture. We all lie, whether to abstain from confrontation, spare people’s feelings, conveniently forget, keep secrets, or even to justify our own words and actions. By clarifying the extent into which we all lie, Ericsson insinuates an abundance of ways in which we fib, by listing and describing each lie in its natural element.…
Humans lie all the time without a second thought. People lie to evade consequences and extended explanations; in other words, lying generates a smoother way forward because it lacks both confrontation and shame. Stephanie Ericsson, in her essay, The Ways We Lie, argues “When someone lies, someone loses”(1) through various examples and situations. In contrast, both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and John Steinbeck’s East of Eden provide numerous examples that dispute her claim.…
I admit that I lie mone time in my life on multiple occasions. In the reading “The Ways We Lie ” by Stephanie Ericsson, The author points out that lies are harmful. First, the authorities the various types of lies that people use every day. Second, the author gives examples to each type of lie. Lasty, the author conveys the negative effects about lying to people.…
Do you have explanations to backup your lies?Lying is could sometimes be acceptable when you are protecting others. Lying is sometimes acceptable. According to Blanton lying is okay when he said,”f you are hiding Anne Frank in your attic because her life is in danger,” in article 3 paragraph 11 If Anne Frank was in danger,if someone was looking for her to kill her,in that case you have to lie that she’s not in your attic. Another reason would be if you tell your dad that your mom is fine,when she is not,you protect him. For example,if your mom tells you she had been diagnosed with cancer,but she said not to tell your dad because he has heart problems and might get an attack,you would not want to tell you dad…
Teens also said that if you get caught in a lie, just make up another lie to cover up that lie. All this led me to believe that it's only right to lie sometimes in certain occasions. The four articles all gave good examples on why you should or shouldn't or sometimes should lie about sometimes. I think you should not lie for your own gain nor anything else that can cause harm, the whole moral is that you should not really lie. You shouldn't be allowed to lie for your own gain.…
Lying is something that all humans do. Whether you lie for good or for bad, it is in our human nature to do so. People lie for many reasons, a lie can be big or small. For example in the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, it shows the consequences of lying. The characters, Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams, Samuel Parris, and Thomas Putnam all lie for different reasons.…
In the ways we lie, Ericsson discusses roughly ten lies, but there are much more that can be added to this list. She describes the main ones we continuously use on a regular basis and the reasons for lying. The white lie, Facades, Ignoring the plain facts, Deflecting, Omission, Stereotypes & Clichés, Groupthink, Out & out lies, Dismissal, and Delusion. When reading this essay, you would be surprised at the number of lies there are. For one there are way too many, but you will come to realize that some are not as bad as they sound being categorized by a lie.…
In the essay The Ways We Lie by Stephanie Ericsson, she mentions on how she discovered that telling the truth all the time is nearly impossible because it would be living with some serious consequences. Throughout the history of the United States and other parts of the world, a high percentage of people tend to not be able to tell the truth when they are asked simple questions by members of their family or by their close friends. As telling the truth may have consequences, telling lies may have deeper consequences that cannot only hurt the person telling the lie, but it can affect the person being lied to. Being known as a liar can cause problems in a relationship because it will bring on trust issues and can also cause one’s partner to overthink…
you find telling the truth way more easier than it is to tell the lie or “sweet talk” your way out of it. Lies no matter how big or small are going to add up and get much more confusing in the end. When speaking out on the truth its half of most people’s instinct or in my cases it’s not, but after a while and you focus on not telling lies it becomes nearly too almost impossible to lie .Someone or something gives it away and they are left already knowing. Like for example if there was a surprise dinner for someone at work and the person you are throwing a surprise to ask what are you doing for the weekend you say I have this surprise dinner I have to go to and you were just being honest and everyone was trying to be secretive about. If you are an honest person most people will come to you about information or feedback.…
veryday life, conflicts arise that pose the decision of whether or not to tell the truth. In the New York Times article titled “How Honesty Could Make You Happier”, Judi Ketteler explores the effect being truthful has on her own morale and happiness/satisfaction. Ketteler’s 6-year-old daughter once claimed that telling truths made her feel “gold in her brain”. Inspired by this, Ketteler decided to test her daughter’s theory by keeping a truth journal. For several months, she recorded any instances that prompted a choice between truth and lie, and then noted how telling the truth made her feel.…
A person could write a novel on all of the different aspects of general and self honesty. This essay merely touches on a few essential ideas associated with honesty, but the most important thing to remember is that any act intended to conceal or alter the truth is not one of honesty; rather honesty is being trustworthy and truthful in all aspects of…