The ways we lie

      In Stephanie Ericsson's essay, "The ways we lie", she starts it off by saying how she lied to the bank tellers that she sent a check in the mail when she clearly didn't. To me, I think that this was an example of a little white lie. This is because  her lie wasn't harming anyone, it was just to avoid fees from the bank. A white lie is one of the ten different lies she mentions. They are the white lie, facades, Ignoring the Plain Facts, Deflecting, Omission, Steroetypes and Cliches, Groupthink, Out-and-Out Lies, Dimissal, and lastly Delusion. I honestly didn't even know that there were so many different forms of lies.
   
      For every single category, Ericsson includes several examples. I think her using the example were the most important part of her explanations. For example, I had no idea what an out-and-out lies was but then she mentioned the incident with her five year old nephew which made it a lot more clearer. However, for some of the different categories like Groupthink, it was quite confusing and didn't make any sense. Her example of it also wasn't that helpful.

      I think that Ericsson wrote an essay about different types of lying because it's such a common thing to do. We lie all the time and sometimes we don't even realize it. Also I think that most of us don't even know that there are other forms of lying, including myself until now.  Ericsson may have wanted to bring to light that there are several methods of lying people use. I really liked how she started her essay by listing all the lies she told in such a short span of time.  This was most likely because she's no stranger to telling lies and that sometimes people lie for a reason. Like when her partner asked her how her day was, she said fine so that her partner doesn't have to worry about her problems.