Our secret Amen Mukhlis. Dr. Monette English 110 October 15, 2015 10 mile walk in Susan’s shoes Our Secret is a chapter from one of Susan Griffin’s books “A Chorus of Stones: the private life of war” the winner of the Bay Area book reviewer association award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. (Bartholome); the story revolves about concealing the truth and secrecy. Thorough our secret Griffin exploress Heinrich Himmler a Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel; a leader of the Nazi Party (protection squad), and the concealed secrets that he carried. Throughout his childhood Himmler's secrets and thoughts were suppressed and hidden. Griffin explores Himmler’s childhood; his culture and his relationship with his father to arriving to her conclusions
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An analysis of Griffin’s work in our secret reveals that through her internal dialogue, her research on Himmler’s life, interpretation of earlier incidents in his life, the effect of his father on him, and his actions, his traits, arrogance, hatred, jealousy, and emerge, how would one expect to be the personality of a man who has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Griffin’s essay “our secret” demonstrates how the every action has a reaction and how all actions shape who we are. It researches and treats the unconventional subjects of racial intolerance, homosexuality and secrecy. She poses the question: “is one really free of the fate of others? (Bartholome). The life and fate of the main character Himmler illustrates the danger of secrecy. She engages the reader through her comparison of the human cycle with that of the cell, in any given cell only a small fraction of the genes are active. Messages to awaken these genes are transmitted by the surrounding cytoplasm, messages from other cells or from outside …show more content…
(Bartholome). Griffins comprehensively researches her subject in this section of her essay, she gives the reader the indication that she walked in Himmler’s shoes; going to Berlin and Munich, reading Himmler’s Dairy and questioning his view. While her writing could claim, walking in Himmler’s shoes helps her understand what he had become; it is impossible to pin point initial action that led to the chains of actions and reactions in Himmler’s life. It is almost impossible to be sure that his father’s presence was a reason for the brutality his personality developed to be. Nor is reading his diary could give a real feeling of what Himmler’s life was. Griffin researches many of the subjects she writes about in her chapter, for example, she researches the background of Himmler, traveling to Germany and reading his diary, then goes to research the catastrophic effects of German child rearing practices in the writings of Alice Miller, to better understand the background and how Himmler grew up, “crush the will, they
An analysis of Griffin’s work in our secret reveals that through her internal dialogue, her research on Himmler’s life, interpretation of earlier incidents in his life, the effect of his father on him, and his actions, his traits, arrogance, hatred, jealousy, and emerge, how would one expect to be the personality of a man who has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Griffin’s essay “our secret” demonstrates how the every action has a reaction and how all actions shape who we are. It researches and treats the unconventional subjects of racial intolerance, homosexuality and secrecy. She poses the question: “is one really free of the fate of others? (Bartholome). The life and fate of the main character Himmler illustrates the danger of secrecy. She engages the reader through her comparison of the human cycle with that of the cell, in any given cell only a small fraction of the genes are active. Messages to awaken these genes are transmitted by the surrounding cytoplasm, messages from other cells or from outside …show more content…
(Bartholome). Griffins comprehensively researches her subject in this section of her essay, she gives the reader the indication that she walked in Himmler’s shoes; going to Berlin and Munich, reading Himmler’s Dairy and questioning his view. While her writing could claim, walking in Himmler’s shoes helps her understand what he had become; it is impossible to pin point initial action that led to the chains of actions and reactions in Himmler’s life. It is almost impossible to be sure that his father’s presence was a reason for the brutality his personality developed to be. Nor is reading his diary could give a real feeling of what Himmler’s life was. Griffin researches many of the subjects she writes about in her chapter, for example, she researches the background of Himmler, traveling to Germany and reading his diary, then goes to research the catastrophic effects of German child rearing practices in the writings of Alice Miller, to better understand the background and how Himmler grew up, “crush the will, they