The Secret Daughter Analysis

In Susan Griffin’s work titled “Our Secret”, she discusses the relationship between the present-day and the earlier life of different people. She also compares the private and public lives of other people. Her piece is set during World War Two in the 1940s. Throughout the entire piece, Griffin compares the lives of people evolved in World War Two, people who were affected by the war, and her own life. She shows how even though they lived separate lives, they are still closely related.

The film 4 Little Girls (1997) Directed by Spike Lee shows in detail the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that occurred on September 15th, 1963. Dr. King comment on the event stating that it is “one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity". The movie was entirely made nearly 30 years later, but still gives us an investigative feel while explaining how Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Carol Denise still lived their lives day to day. Through the use of eye witness, family members, and friends we are given a detailed analysis of the event and the aftermath while juxtaposing church desecrations from the mid 1990’s. and institutional racism. 4 Little Girls was also well received by critics and truly a test for an experienced filmmaker.

A particular question that is seldom pondered over and yet is capable of carrying so many doubts within it: who are we? Who are we as a society who can do the things we do? Who are we who can suffer from them? Award winning poet and essayist Susan Griffin confronts these distinct questions in her work titled, “Our Secret”. Griffin believes that a basic understanding of the things that play a part in the growth of an individual is essential to understanding who we are. The way a child is raised dictates how that child is going to become later on in life. One of the distinct highlights of Griffin’s essay was her use of describing the progress of the V1 rockets in World War II. Griffin studies the aspects of human nature by using these missile developments as a metaphor to symbolize the raising of children and the factors that can influence a growing individual. One of the prime figures that Griffin uses pertaining to these growing individuals was Heinrich Himmler, leader of the Nazi secret police. Griffin uses Himmler as an example to demonstrate how big of a role a parental figure can play in the development of a person.

After reading Stage 2, there has to be a relationship between the epigrah and the girls’ development. The epigraph shows the difficulty of adjusting into the new culture while the girls in stage two shows what each character develop over time while having these kinds of difficulty on their sides.

In the story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, the grandmother uses the label “good man” more than one when talking to others in the story. She first used the saying when Red Sammy complained about the two men who he let buy gas on credit. Red Sammy asked the grandmother why he let two strangers charge their gas. The Grandmother responded to his questions saying it was because he was “a good man.” She then applied it to the Misfit, calling him a “good man” more than once. Grandmother’s definition of “good” is different for each of the characters she called “good.” For Red Sammy it is as if “good” means being taken advantage of, and in the case of Misfit, she used it in desperation. Calling a murderer “good” shows that the grandmother was not basing

     Billie Holiday spent 1934 moving up the rungs of the competitive New York bar scene. By early 1935, she made her debut at the Apollo Theater and appeared in a one-reeler film with Duke Ellington She made her first record with Benny Goodman. In 1935, she got her big breakthrough when she recorded four sides, which featured What a Little Moonlight Can Do, and Miss Brown to You. She made the songs classics because of her singing ability. Her voice-quality wasn't outstanding and her vocal range was limited, but she had an uncanny ability to breathe life into a song, using things like pauses and slurs -- which made the song become a story or an experience, rather than just a group of notes sang with a voice.

In the satire of the sexes, Egalia’s Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg, there is put forth a society different from which has ever been present in modern times. This would be a society where women were at the forefront and did the decision making, worked and held governmental positions. The men were portrayed in the way females live in present society, though it was often exaggerated to make that point. Men were dominated and ruled by women and had to do their bidding and cook for them and take care of the children, so on and so forth. By taking a hard look at how sexuality is imagined and experienced on all analytical levels and picking apart the social construction of gender in Egalia’s Daughters, society itself in the present can start to

When they met their mother, they are taken with her; she is very beautiful and charming, and Maya and Bailey are no longer nervous or sad at being taken away from Stamps. Maya thinks her mom is too pretty to have been a mother, and sees that she and Bailey are already taking a shine to each other.

Internationally best-selling author, romance novelist extraordinaire and Perth-dweller Rachael Johns is at it again with her new book, The Art of Keeping Secrets. Since first being published in 2012, Johns has sold 140 000 copies, and her readership has grown exponentially. In this relatively short period, she has quickly proven herself as a force to be reckoned with in the romance and chick-lit world.

The text ‘The Daughters of England’, is a book written to provide guidance for young women, pertaining to their character and behaviour; the book creates the framework for the role of women in the household. It instructs that women must offer a virtuous influence on men - as wives, mothers, and daughters - as part of their role within society. Estimated to have been written in 1842, in London, ‘Daughters of England’ was penned by Sarah Stickney Ellis; a popular author of Victorian conduct literature. Ellis’ popularity implies that the source was widely circulated at the time, thus represents an important view of contemporary society. This document reveals to us the ideals expected of middle class women of the time, and the principles that were envisioned for them, relating in particular to the ‘separate spheres’ ideology.

A few hundred years ago, gender equality might not have been spoken of. However, in recent years it has become one of the most widely discussed topics. Does this mean that present societies really uphold equality? Humanity's realization of moral values has enabled women to be equal to men and earn high stature within the society. However, there are still women who are born into societies where they are considered inferior and are expected to fill in the traditional roles of a woman such as caretaking and housekeeping. In the book, the Secret Daughter, composed by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, the author explores the similarities between two female characters who are a part of two distinct societies. Kavita, one of the women in the story, is born into

The colonization of Australia thrived by the import of British convicts creating a world of tension, greed and conflict. The Secret River is set in New South Whales, a penal colony in the South-East of Australia, during the 1900s. Along with British settlers, there are natives living in the forests of their colony. Throughout her novel the Secret River, Grenville uses Sal, Dickie and William Thornhill and their interactions with aborigines as a way to further investigate the aboriginal culture.

The Meaning Of The Title “Our Secret”, A Chapter From “A Chorus Of Stones” by Susan Griffin

Pink Floyd’s Mother debuted on November 30th, 1979. While Kendrick Lamar’s FEAR. debuted on April 14th, 2017. Although nearly 38 years apart, the two songs show a deep response to the tactics of their mother’s parenthood. To begin, Mother is sung with incredible eeriness and passion.

In the story “Two Kinds”, author Amy Tan, who is a Chinese-American, describes the conflicts in the relationship of a mother and daughter living in California. The protagonist in this story Jing-mei Woo’s mother is born and raised in China, and immigrates to the United States to escape from the Chinese Civil War. For many years she maintained complete Chinese traditional values, and has been abided by it deliberately. This kind of traditional Chinese culture has also affected her daughter profoundly. However, Jing-mei is born and raised in the United States. Despite she has a Chinese mother; she is unfamiliar and uncomfortable with Chinese