In Stephanie Ericsson’s essay “The Ways We Lie,” she classifies lies
into ten different categories. For each lie Ericsson separates them into
separate paragraphs and briefly gives an explanation and cited a quotation for
each individual lie. I believe Ericsson did a good job in being able to
classify lies into ten categories. However, I believe there are still a few
missing. In my opinion Ericsson wrote this essay to everyone in the world
because everyone lies. I would find it very difficult to believe a person over
the age of 6 has not lied before. I chose the age of 6 because infants and
younger children tend to tell the complete truth more likely than lying. Everyone
has dilemmas between telling a lie or truth, and everyone has told different
kinds of lies. Therefore, I believe the purpose of this essay is to let readers
know that some lies are more hurtful than others. For example, in her paragraph
Ignoring the Plain Facts Ericsson
choose the quote “Well, you must understand that Father Porter is only human”
said a Massachusetts priest to give an idea of what her explanation of ignoring
the plain facts. She explains the fact that a priest was molesting children
during the 1960's and instead of relieving him of his duties early in his career
he was sent to be cured and later returns to be a cured person. However, he
continued to molest children and nothing was done because the members of the
church ignore the fact that he performs unjust actions.
Lying is a
universal strategy that can persuade others by giving false accusations about
anything. My two favorite lies categories that Ericsson describes are white
lies, and Stereotypes and Clichés. The reason being is the fact that I always
use these two lies; white lies to get myself out of trouble in a conversation;
stereotypes and clichés to joke around with my friends. I favorite part of this
essay was reading through these two paragraphs. Ericsson can improve her essay
by clearly expressing her purpose of writing this essay and by backing her each
of different types of lies with better examples to gain the reader’s attention
as well as their passion about the lie.
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