World War II was a difficult time for everyone, not just for the people who were personally involved as well as the people who just had the luxury of living during that time. Susan Griffin’s essay “Our Secret” takes mainly about the war and how it had to capacity to influence people even to this day. She talks about herself and how it influenced her own childhood, but also uses an out of this era example. She uses Mr. Heinrich Himmler as an example of how one person had the ability to affect multiple. She humanizes him so we as readers believe what he did wasn’t his fault but the fault of an explosive aftermath.
Her essay involves many different stories and plot lines but in the end they all work in unison to create a common theme. During …show more content…
Take each section as if they are their own thing, their own singular story. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the whole meaning behind what is trying to be said, that is never expected of you. But if you just soak in as much of the information as possible the first time, the second may seem easier and allow yourself to analyze what is being said easier. Of course this is my personal opinion based off of my own experiences from reading this text. You as your own reader do not need to follow this exact …show more content…
We are constantly getting vocabulary terms defined and general knowledge thrown at us. They are there to help us relate what she is actually trying to say together. “The story of one life cannot be told separately from the story of other lives.” (263) we are all connected in some way. The action of one person effect all of us. The missile represents the destruction that can happen at any moment in our lives. Heinrich Himmler is there to remind us that we are the missiles and we with just our actions have the capacity to destroy anyone is our way. “All lives that surround us are in us.” (263) Griffin wants to create awareness that we are not to just worry about who we are as individuals, but what we can do and how we can influence others. It the cells in us that helped create who we are, but it’s the hidden missile that can destroy is just as
Her essay involves many different stories and plot lines but in the end they all work in unison to create a common theme. During …show more content…
Take each section as if they are their own thing, their own singular story. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the whole meaning behind what is trying to be said, that is never expected of you. But if you just soak in as much of the information as possible the first time, the second may seem easier and allow yourself to analyze what is being said easier. Of course this is my personal opinion based off of my own experiences from reading this text. You as your own reader do not need to follow this exact …show more content…
We are constantly getting vocabulary terms defined and general knowledge thrown at us. They are there to help us relate what she is actually trying to say together. “The story of one life cannot be told separately from the story of other lives.” (263) we are all connected in some way. The action of one person effect all of us. The missile represents the destruction that can happen at any moment in our lives. Heinrich Himmler is there to remind us that we are the missiles and we with just our actions have the capacity to destroy anyone is our way. “All lives that surround us are in us.” (263) Griffin wants to create awareness that we are not to just worry about who we are as individuals, but what we can do and how we can influence others. It the cells in us that helped create who we are, but it’s the hidden missile that can destroy is just as