Different Ways We Lie

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Different Ways We Lie We all lie, including children, young adults, and even older people. According to Dr. Robert Feldman, the average person lies three times in a ten minute conversation, often without realizing they’ve done so (Meese). We lie for all particular reasons. We lie because it’s a way to control our world, but also a way to get people to do what we want them to do. Lying can also be used to “fit in” to get along with other people; many children lie for this reason. We also lie to escape accountability of our actions. There are various types of lies that we tell. Lies that are consider small lies are called ”the white lie”, or a lie that many of us are guilty of telling our parents to avoid punishment is called “Omission”. …show more content…

The white lie tends to have less importance than any other type of lie. Many of us tell this lie to avoid hurting our friends or our family’s feelings as well as to avoid being criticized or rejected. The white lie can seem like an innocent little lie, but in reality this lie can become a problem. The smallest of lies that seems to be totally harmless can snowball into bigger kinds of lies that can cause problems. For example, my family tradition on Thanksgiving Day is to have my whole family gathered together for a big Thanksgiving dinner. The whole family would cook their own specialty. My mother’s best dishes are pernil, arroz con guandu, y ensalada de coditos which, means pork leg, rice and pigeon peas, and macaroni salad in Spanish. My family always looks forward to every thanksgiving just because of my mother’s cooking. Last Thanksgiving was different from every other thanksgiving, my mother was sick so she couldn’t cook her specialties. Instead of my mother making her famous dishes, my aunt was in charge of making them. My aunt is known for making the best dessert, nothing else but the dessert. The whole family knew this was a disaster ready to happen. On Thanksgiving morning, I woke up to an awful smell, which smelled as if my house turned into a farm overflowing with wild animals. The smell was coming from the kitchen; my aunt was up early cooking the pernil. I walked into the …show more content…

Later that day, after all the cooking was done my aunt called me over to the kitchen to try the pernil she had cooked. As I walked over she opened the oven, and that awful smell came rushing out, she cut me a piece to try. I was so scared to try it because of the unpleasant smell, but I did it anyways. The taste was worse than the smell; I couldn’t get that piece down my throat. I had to tell her the truth. That little white lie I told became a bigger problem because there was no time left for her to start all over if I had told her the truth ahead of time, she would have had time to make a new pernil or go out to buy one. This little harmless “white lie” caused my whole family to have no pernil for

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