The Lie Short Story

In the story, “The Lie,” being dishonest can turn out to become a bigger problem than you may have expected to come your way. This theme surfaces before the story began,when Eli finds the letter of admission to Whitehill School, the exclusive prep school

After reading both stories, I found that I enjoyed Stephanie Ericsson’s, “The Ways We Lie” the most. This story was very interesting and made me think of many different things. I did not realize that there were so many different ways to lie. I was guilty of doing a few of them. After reading the section about the white lie, I realized that I do this sometimes without even noticing it. Ericsson gives the example of when your friend may look terrible one day, but you tell them that they look nice just so they would feel better. Most people, along with myself, do not see this as a bad thing because you are doing something good for someone else, but either way you are still lying. As I continued reading, I was also shocked about a few parts, especially

Alcoholism is one of the most delusional lies one can tell themselves. In the essay, “The Ways We Lie,” by Stephanie Ericsson, she states that, “alcoholics … believe that the problems in their lives are legitimate reasons for drinking rather than results of the drinking” (477). Alcoholics believe that they can stop at any time and that the benefits outweigh the side effects. They lie to themselves and lose trust from peers. I understand this first hand from my alcoholic granfather. Alcoholism is a direct result of being delusional. Delusion is the most catastrophic way to lie because it can cause physical danger, it creates isolation due to the lack of trust and it hides underlying issues of the delouser.

In “The Ways we Lie,” Stephanie Ericsson expresses her own life experience as an example to show, how difficult it is to balance the moral value of living a lie and the consequences of telling the truth in real life. Ericsson expresses her views thoroughly on how “we all lie” for different reasons and for different purposes. In “The Way We Lie,” informational essay, some of the words contradict each other, for example, she explains the impossibility and the consequences of telling the truth all the time, while she explains the consequences of telling a lie without taking a side. She used those statements to build a strong bond with readers by eliminating judgment and creating humble moments. Ericsson’s essay grasped my attention easily and intrigued me so much that, I couldn’t keep my eyes of the pages; the end of each paragraph brought me to have text-to-self connections.

The novel will often drop an example of lying then later pick it back up again before mentioning at the end that it will be further explained later. The second chapter however clears up most of the confusion and has a streamlined narrative that helps the reader understand and break down the material. The second chapter analyzes the different ways someone can lie and uses the same example to show each and every way it can be done. The example is a married woman named Ruth is caught by her husband talking to her other lover on the phone. The author replays the same situation over and over again using different techniques of lying to play out each way Ruth can avoid making her husband aware of her affair. The author wisely uses the same example in this chapter to showcase lying and to show how vast lying is and the magnitude of ways you can lie. Ruth can play off her fear by simply lying that her fear was about something else, she could choose not to reveal anything, she could falsify the truth, she could conceal the truth, she could tell the truth in a sarcastic manner that makes it look like she is lying. The author is trying to point out the many courses of actions she can

Valentina padded quietly down the short hallway and let out a long, slow breath before she stepped around the corner, and then back into the kitchen. She found Cole stirring his mashed potatoes and her meal in the microwave, where she walked over to watch the black container spin. It crossed her mind to thank him for starting her food for her, but he spoke up and cut her off before the thought could cross her lips. He wanted to know about the tapes. Of course, she knew the conversation was going to happen, but she was rather hoping she’d get to sleep first.

The Lie, the everyday struggles of the Lonnie. Into Lonnie’s audience can view the male’s characters daily routine from morning, afternoon, and evening. Throughout “The Lie”, Lonnie tries to come up with strange ideas of how he can relief his stressful life until the weekend. But the narratives ideas are only temporary fixes which only hinders him towards the end of the story.

“Well, believe it or not, it’s true.” Dean’s voice was low as he let go of her arm and leaned back on the couch. “Though I guess my timing isn’t the best for it to sound sincere.”

This book start with stories that do not seem to be connected at all. There is juxtaposition of content, but this juxtaposition has a very strong meaning. She uses juxtaposition to make more. This first part of the book focuses on the issue of racism. Claudine presents this issue by using multiple stories in which racist acts take place. These stories are really interesting because of how Claudine delivers them. It was very thought-provoking to read the short story where the police were called because black individual was working around a house and at the end that black individual was the one in charge of the house.

The act of lying is something every human being does far too often, whether it is planned or not. Although it is a good way to get out of doing something, it can also get one into a situation that is uncomfortable and may cause a further train of lying. Lying has been a very obvious problem for all of time, one key example being Richard Nixon and the issue at Watergate. The movie titled, “The Invention of Lying”, has many good examples of how lying is represented in the lives of everyday people. In the movie, a man by the name Mark Bellison, who is played by Ricky Gervais, lives in a world where everyone speaks their mind and lying does not exist.

In the book “Lying”Slater uses a lot of devices to try and contrast fiction with nonfiction, gaining the reader’s attention into Slater’s discovery of herself as a person: she search for the truth, for who or what she really is through her life experiences and recollections. The reader is already given a clue as to what this book has to offer as; “Lying”. This leaves the reader with a big question: Is this book made up of series of lies that we would have to figure out with Slater or Is the whole just a complete illusion, a lie. We the readers have no choice but to go through this rollercoaster ride full uncertainty and lack of assurance.

In order to survive, people have been known to go to immense lengths and do things they don’t ordinarily do daily. I honestly do not believe that i would be able to survive on my own or with my siblings like they did in “The Good Lie”.

So kiss my tongue, make everything better Show me you'll be with me forever Still, our happy days will never be granted ‘Cus even if it’s never said, I know it’s true; You want me dead I’m afraid of flowers wilting away when I don’t get to say goodbye

We know we’ve got problems But we won’t talk They try to save us But we can’t be saved Realistic, nihilistic, pessimistic, freaks Everybody dies Buried at 75

He was tired. So very tired. His hands shook as he stared at his reflection in the mirror. Eyes, once vibrant in their innocence, had dulled to a flat brown.