Analysis Of Our Secret By Susan Griffin

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Challenges throughout life can shape an individual in myriad ways; however, a few challenges can change an individual’s life. Moreover, these changes can change one’s life positively or negatively. Furthermore, if citizens do not challenge themselves, they may never encounter anything that benefits them to their full potential or something that one may enjoy. Last, life is not easy thus; one must go through difficulties in order to gain benefits.
As asserted by Susan Griffin, author of Our Secret, “pain is meant to benefit children.” (387) In other words, if one does not encounter a few difficulties in life, one may not receive certain benefits. During the week before Halloween in order to claim my award I received I had to write a five to
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Moreover, pain can also shape citizens beneficially or negatively. Griffin asserts that Heinrich as “a man who made history” shaped myriad childhoods including her childhood. (386) When one reads or learns about a citizen who has undergone a unique experience, citizens want to imitate them since those citizens flatter those individuals. I believe Griffin read Heinrich’s biography and enjoyed it, thus, she became inspired by him and followed some of his beneficial sides of his path but in her unique way. In short, one must be challenged in life or else they will never learn their purpose in life or a few unique things about life.
Occasionally, one must go through hardships as Heinrich did in order to find their path in life. As stated by Griffin in Our Secret, Heinrich served as a soldier in WW1 and “the war has given him a sense of purpose in life.” (391) Moreover, hardships do not always need to be difficult, however, in my opinion, Heinrich’s hardship was difficult since after words he still needed to progress and later he does. As asserted in Our Secret, Heinrich swings from harshness to compassion.”(Griffin 392) Although one does progress,
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Moreover, being arrested was Heinrich’s last before final punishment due to Himmler receiving a final punishment in the future. Griffin states that Himmler will try to cross borders and he will try to eliminate the black capsule in his mouth out of sight since security will ask him to open his mouth and “all attempts to save his life will fail. He will not survive to tell his own story. His secrets will die with him.”(410) As I stated previously, what goes around comes around. In other words, Himmler though he could escape his wrongdoings, but karma caught him regardless of where he went. On the other hand, I knew a student from my high school who has ameliorated her school progress and she felt compelled to try hookah due to peer pressure and I received an invention text to a hookah party with her. I told her no and she abandoned our friendship. Later on, since she violated the contract for our Honors Club by doing hookah since a member nearby the shop happened to notice her in the shop doing hookah so, she had her membership terminated. Finally, if these horrendous

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