The Title “Our Secret”‚ A Chapter From “A Chorus Of Stones” by Susan Griffin Truth is possibly one of the most powerful forces in humanity. Truth has the power to set people free‚ change lives and end them. Because of this‚ the truth is usually feared and often concealed. In Susan Griffin’s “Our Secret”‚ the concealing of the truth become a major theme in the advancement of the plot‚ and also carries the meaning to the work’s title. The title of “Our Secret” refers to the secrets that the individual
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how a human being’s personality comes to be has been questioned. Susan Griffin’s‚ “Our Secret” explores the theories of a “larger matrix”‚ the “determining field” and our “common past” as she attempts to answer the question. Griffin’s larger matrix explains how everything is interconnected affecting people to establish different personalities depending on the time‚ place and family they are brought up in. The determining field Griffin is describing in her essay explains how humans are greatly influenced
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connections.” This is what Susan Griffin‚ author of “Our Secret”‚ a chapter taken from Griffin’s insightful book A Chorus of Stones‚ most likely would have declared. Griffin argues that‚ “all of us‚ especially all of us who read her essay - are part of a complex web of connections” (265). But how are people who do not even know each other connected? Griffin implies that people are part of a “larger matrix” and have a “common past” (265). The “common past” between people that Griffin asserts can be proved
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for our existence. The relationship between true spirituality and human connectedness are apparent. For example‚ the way Griffin’s adult life was shaped from the unbalance she suffered as a child eventually was the telling factor what she would eventually become. "We considered ourselves finer than the neighbors to our left with their chaotic household. But when certain visitors came‚ we were as if driven by an inwardly secret panic that who we were might be discovered" (Our Secret’‚ Susan Griffin
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Griffin argues that everyone in society is a part of a larger matrix; that if we had been born to a different family‚ in a different time period‚ or to a different world‚ we would not be the same people we are today. Throughout her essay‚ Griffin ties together four seemingly separate people through their fears and secrets. Secrets are very powerful‚ in that just one secret can impact the lives of many‚ even if the person keeping the secret has no intentions of hurting anybody or changing the lives
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Susan Griffin compares and contrasts cellular life and weaponry as she writes her essay‚ Our Secret. She uses these ideas together with characters and events‚ to help explain causes and effects in the essay. She alternates from the cell’s function to the history of weaponry throughout the essay. With both these ideas‚ she starts at the elementary level‚ with a cell’s life and with the Vergeltungswaffe missile‚ and tells how they progress. In this essay‚ I will describe how Griffin uses cellular life
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"The Secrets of Our Secret" Throughout "Our Secret" Griffin explores the different characters’ fears and secrets and she gives specific insights into these "secrets". Through examining others Griffin comes to terms with her own feelings‚ secrets‚ and fears. She relates to Himmler‚ Leo‚ Helene‚ and everyone else even though she is different than all of them. One fact that can be made about all of these characters is that they all represent humans and human emotion First‚ Griffin reveals that
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By: Kevin _ _ _ _ _ _ Commentary and Analysis of Susan Griffin’s Our Secret World War 2 wasn ’t just a war‚ it was a wake-up call. The people of the world were confronted with the face of true evil‚ and had to accept the harsh reality that our fellow man can commit atrocities beyond comprehension. The events of the war not only cause us to gasp in horror‚ but also make us reflect on how such evil could originate in the first place. In order to understand how such a disaster could ever take
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Duha Salamah Professor Aquino English 1A 1 March 2015 In Susan Griffin’s essay “Our Secret”‚ she examines her life and the lives of others and their correlation to the Holocaust. The essay’s structure is interesting as there are italicized sentences placed seemingly randomly between several paragraphs. Further reading into the essay will reveal that these italicized sentences are used to describe the growth of a missile and a cell. Griffin uses both of these objects to describe different fates that
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does not occur ever again in history. Susan Griffin’s essay Our Secret looks at the minds of various people‚ focusing the most on Heinrich Himmler. It is hard to deny that he is an awful man for what he did‚ but it is so easy for people to simply judge without knowing the facts behind his madness. Many may not realize this‚ but who we are today goes back to how we were raised as a child and who we had to look up to. Just as Himmler’s tough life reminded Griffin of her self-experiences‚ I myself began
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