In reality, talking pull each other closer. Even though talking is a unique act to humans, it remains a mystery. Immediately after birth, parents teach their children how to talk. Some people take longer to learn to talk than others, which suggests that the ability for an individual to talk is innate. However, one question that people ask is the reason for talking. Could it be talking satisfies a human need to relate to other people? Do people talk for social comfort? In the book “Eating the Dinosaur”, the author Chuck Klosterman’s argument is the base that supports for the reasons why people talk.
For the first reason, people talk to communicate, with the results and satisfaction of their conversation depending on whether the conversation was healthy or unhealthy. When people talk, they tend to step back when they feel that they are having an unhealthy conversation. The success of talking depends on the ability of the other person to communicate. In addition, talking helps people express themselves in a language that the listeners can understand. As a result, people talk to …show more content…
When a person talks to help others, form social bonds, and make his live easier, his conversations take the form of reputation management. In most cases, conversations recount personal experiences and positive gossips. Most of the times people hold positive conversations to earn a positive reputation. As Errol Morris says when interviewed by Chuck Klosterman in “Something Instead of Nothing”, people talk to give the listeners an account of themselves (Klosterman, 2009). To clarify, they always aim to show that they are informed and are successful. Therefore, the identities of human beings are refined and shaped by the conversations they have. The people that an individual spends time with shapes the values that he or she passes in their conversations with the society, their family, community, profession, or