Deliberately Adopted Mute Behavior

“A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two”-the Talmud. When Danny and Reuven we’re friends they had each other to talk to and then in college they had nobody, In the book “The Chosen” by Chaim Potok, It talks about how silence can bring to sides together and hurt and help you.

If there is a miscommunication, then people may hold different views of it, that is conflicts and diverges come, which is inevitably detrimental to the personal relationship. For instance, people in the village gathered together to discuss and come up with theories about “just fiddlin’ with stuff”, each person has own opinion, such as new-fangled, electricity, new sulky, or secret weapon. (Just Fiddlin’ With Stuff) It demonstrates that during the discussion, people may have arguments about a topic and their relationship will suffer. Anxious state of minds are likely to appear as well, when Gutteridge entered the workshop, he sputtered about the “Invention” because he thought Frank and John were lying, they were not honest.

Poor communication such as attitude, being derogatory, negativity, and belittling affects relationships as people are less likely to listen and pay attention, in turn this may result in missed messages, misunderstanding, poor work and vital pieces of information being missed.

People who experience a gradual loss of effective communication may become increasingly withdrawn, depressed, isolated, reduced self-esteem, Frustration, felling useless and feeling angry which may turn in to violence.

As one matures, a certain peer groups reinforce beliefs. Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, in her book Spiral of Silence, explains individuals inherently fear social isolation from peers and are apprehensive of speaking out against group ideas (Patterson 161).

There are many ways that Nollop is affected by the lack of communication. Families are torn apart, relationships fail, people's personalities shift around when they can no longer talk without fear of saying a banished letter, and children are speaking with incorrect grammar and not being correctly taught how to speak. While the lack of communication may not seem so atrocious to some people, it truly is a social and mental disaster.

Ketrow, S.M. (1999) Nonverbal aspects of Group Communication. The Handbook of Group Communication Theory and Research, 255.

The silent treatment solves no problems it just makes more this is the reason why silence can aggravate PTSD like Bill Crawford says, “you can’t fight fire with fire, or fear with fear.” Post traumatic stress disorder is a psychiatric disorder that causes long term mental issues. Like PTSD silence affects people in similar way except when combined with this mental illness can cause extremely horrific outcomes. For example, in Lauren Groff’s “Good People” The soldier chooses not to talk to the mother or Father and vise versa which then begins

Jaclyn, although I agree that a code of silence may not be justifiable, it does have its place. For example, during wartime maintaining silence could save a multitude of lives; however; loyalty should never be taken for granted. Loyalty is a pledge of support, an attitude, a mindset, a philosophical way of life; in addition to articulating that support. In policing, The Brotherhood embodies a commitment to protect on another even to the bitter end, leaving no man behind (Donahue, 2011). However, for those embrace the ways of the Lord, loyalty is not condoning criminal behavior and does not include lying on any level (e.g., white lies, spinning the truth). If we truly love one another, we would be open to compassionately counsel our colleagues

In the longer term it can seriously affect interpersonal relationships with peers and family with problems tending to increase with age.(Botting et al 2000). It has also been noted that a third of children with communication problems will go on to develop mental illness if untreated. (Clegg et al 1999).

He has learned that it is easier to shut someone out than to attempt to effectively communicate.

I support remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen. To add, that if you speak out then you can save someone from something evil or bad happening to them. Also, the way that the victims were treated is the reason they were silent. While they were in the camps they were not fed enough or got enough sleep which being drowsy gave them a tired kind of distant feeling then without food the prisoners were very weak and starving. To start off, I agree that if people spoke out for each other things would have been different.

All individuals communicate even if they are not speaking. There can be positive and negative silence. Sometimes silence is reflective and engaging, while other times it signifies a lack of connection or fear (Jacobs, et al., 2016). Body language will help determine what might be going on with an individual, and is also a good way to invite them in to the discussion. Addressing the person by responding to what is noticed could help them feel connected and important. If multiple members are silent it may mean there is not much comfort between members, in this case an activity or exercise that serves to break tension and increase cohesion may be beneficial (Jacobs, et al., 2016). It is also a possibility that a silent member is just naturally silent. A good technique to draw them out and make them feel more comfortable could be having the group divide in dyads so that they have an opportunity to talk and be heard and gradually warm up to the group as a whole (Jacob, et al.,

Indifference is very commonly used as a weapon in today’s world. Whenever my mother or my older brother is angry at me they will give me the silent treatment. One time when I was younger, I made my brother so irate,

If a child is never taught socialization they are neglected. In extreme cases feral children may never establish the ability to speak. Growing up with four older stepsisters I learned to prioritize verbal communication for self expression. I had them to look up to and learn from. In an institution like elementary school a child has peers and an authority figure that rewards good behavior. I also had this environment at home.