The Secret Room

Chapter Three The Secret Room Thursday, 12:00 p.m. Just outside our front gate, Chief Chizelmen, a large man with a brooding look and a double chin was waiting for us in a black SUV. We got in the car and the tires rolled over gravel as he pulled away from the curb. “Morning, Mike,” the chief said. “I want to remind you that discretion is essential under the circumstances. Otherwise, this ghost thing could turn into a real media freak show.” “You got it, Chief,” Dad agreed. “Our conversation is strictly off the record.” He was a reporter for the Covert Times and a wannabe TV sports anchor with a stack of applications to prove it. “Thanks.” Chizelmen’s SUV squealed around a corner. “Were you at Willaston last night, Madison?” “Yes,” I said.…

probably another gift from the Sultan. The King wore the robe, and all of the sudden, he went from a vulgar naked chubby man to a majestic charismatic King. He clapped his hands to order his female guests out of the baths. When Lord Heines asked an audience, or appeared in the castle it meant that something serious needed to be discussed. Heines was his right hand, advisor and confident and he was also his cousin’s father in law. Both men exited the baths, to walk up the wooden stairs that led…

A young boy with untidy hair as black as coal, eyes as bright and green as a new leaf, and a frightening lightening bolt shaped scar on his tiny forehead delicately opened the massive and heavy pink door. He was small and skinny, with a slim face and bumpy pale legs. He wore eyeglasses as round as a tire and seemed as innocent as a lamb. That is until he spoke. Although he modestly showed unmatched meekness, it was clear that this timid little boy hid great secrets. He introduced himself as…

Secrets Everyone at one point in time has to keep a secret, but do people really keep them? “Individuals are prone to telling secrets due to the amount of stress they feel when keeping a secret,” stated by Daily Mail. Statistics have shown that you tend to preserve secrets when the secret is from your family or very close friends. This is because you feel a closer bond between you and the person you are keeping the secret with. Statistics also show that women cannot keep a secret longer than…

have to admit it. Most of the friends that you talk to don’t really argue with that much. However, when you do it will last for a few days before you both are able to patch things up, but even then things will never be the same. With your best friend its different. You fight with them all the time, most of it is just the little things. When you do fight you would separate and then ending up calling each other four hours later. Your fights with your best friend never last that long because you…

On a cold chilly winter day the wind howled blowing snow that whipped hard against Westfield high school. It wasn’t normal for the weather to be this cold as Canada didn’t exactly have the stereotype Canadian winters people perceived, but a 12th grader named Ryder knew he couldn’t use the -35 degree weather as an excuse to skip class because there he was sitting at the back of English class with his feet propped up onto the desk and his arms behind his head. He did not want to be there. “Ryder,…

in their essays, in her essay “The Naked Citadel” Susan Faludi discusses how the Cadets from the Citadel are significantly affected by their group’s atmosphere, which ultimately leads to dissociation and splitting. While the environment at The Citadel is extremely different from the environment created in Bell’s and Stout’s text, the patients and the cadets both encounter the same psychological mechanisms. Both the trauma patients and the cadets dissociate due to different purposes leading to…

can't keep that up, if I'm watched to that extent, I start by getting snappy, then unhappy, and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would like to be, and what I could be,"(268 Frank). The previous quotation showcases the effort Frank puts in to make the best of a poor situation, especially how she tries to keep her friends and family content. This drive the author has is a…

The novel revolves around the theme of “honor” that inspires the theme of secrecy. For Angela, her secret was out on the day of her marriage and the revelation of the secret of her virginity inspires the events that has implications for her twin brothers Pablo and Pedro, as well as the character of Santiago Nasar. The murder happened, Santiago was killed but till half part of the story, it remains a mystery. Angela’s mother, Purisima has brought up her little girls to be great spouses. The…

Secrets and lies; they go hand in hand and need each other to survive. A secret can be defined as not disclosing information while a lie is creating false information. There are many reasons why people decide to keep a secret or tell a lie. These acts, part of human nature, are used as a source of power or as a defense mechanism. In the novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, the author, Kim Edwards explores the perception of secrets and lies through the life of the main character, David Henry. The…