Summary Of We Lie We All Do By Ericsson

Ericsson strategies and structures 1-6, Thinking about language 1-3
1. I think Ericsson adopts a confessional strategy by admitting she tells lies to support her thesis that "We lie. We all do." (3). The author begins her narrative with a "lie", "The bank called today and I told them my deposit was in the mail, even though I hadn't written a check yet." (1). The effect is strong, capturing reader’s immediate attention and getting immediately to her main point at that we all laying for whatever reason.
2. By classifying lies the author tries to distinguish the reasons why people telling lies and by my understanding to justify some of the lies even for herself. “I discovered that telling the true all the time is nearly impossible.”, “There must
By characterizing the lies the author argues that not all lies are necessary bad and often are necessary. I see two major characteristics of lies - with serious consequences that can be harmful to the persons, like “facades lie” and the ones that do more good than the harm the truth would cause, like “white lie”.
4. I believe the "groupthink" lies in general overlapping author's categorizing system in the sense that this lie is a combination of other forms of lying - ignoring facts, selective memory, omission, and denial. On the other hand I believe is it not overlapping as long as this lie is created in the way to justify a loyalty to a particular group and in a sense is a different kind
I think Brooks uses the phrase "iron curtains", because people built sometimes intentionally or unintentionally walls between different cultures and views.
Tan strategies and structures 1-5, thinking about language 1-3
1. I believe Tan addresses the reader directly as "you" to represent her personal narrative more close to the audience and also to makes reader feel as a part of her own life.
2. Tan classifying the different kinds of English she knows to make the point that using a different English gives different results and different prospective how the society is excepting someone on base of his/her English.
3. I believe laid out authors classification state at the end makes her narrative more strong and human, her mother verdict “So easy to read”. (22)
4. In paragraph 15-18 Tan advances an argument about IQ making her point that the IQ tests are not related strictly to the human intellectual capacity and that they have a strong relationship with the children’s family environment.
5.By using "Englishes" at the end of her narratives Tan makes an conclusion that thanks to all these kind if English she have learned, she us the kind of author and person she