Stephanie Ericsson, in her essay, “The Ways We Lie,” does an excellent job of explaining how and why everyone lies. Ericsson’s argues that not all lies are necessarily bad and often times are necessary. However, she makes several points about how some lies can have serious consequences and can be harmful to the person lying or the person being lied to. Her audience is everyone, because she argues that everyone lies. She conveys her ideas through her style of rhetorical writing. By listing out a different types of lies, Ericsson successfully identifies when and how each type of lie is used. Ericsson uses multiple allusions in her essay to persuade her audience. I believe Stephanie Ericsson is a great rhetorical authors, she uses allusions to describe the effects of lying. By allusion I mean a short, informal reference to a famous person or event. She uses this rhetorical device to tell how sever some lies can be. I consider Ericsson’s use of these devices allusions because they give a brief reference to well known people or events in a way that does not go too in depth. By summarizing complex stories, Ericsson successfully uses rhetorical language to persuade the audience. In these essays, Ericsson analyzed the different ways we use lies to help and hurt our self in our every day lives, and how this effects American culture. Ericsson shows the way lies can, as she puts it, “lubricate the daily machinery of living”. She also show how we as Americans use lies these ways and others so much that most of us may not realize it. Ericsson’s essay was obviously about "The Ways We Lie," mostly about the way we lie to other people to make their or your own life easier. When Ericsson is describing the white lie; she use the example of a friend telling another friend she looks good when the truth is she doesn’t. This is exactly how we use lies to lubricate daily living, we avoid confrontation. The way lies have become a part of are d