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Theme Of The Secret Between Barbara Delinsky

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The Forgotten Treasure: A Mother’s Interminable Love Love. Love is like the waves. It can hit you like a tsunami of gaiety and sorrow. But, the delight you get when you are able to ride on it is indescribable; do not get drowned though! It is indescribable for it is profound. As broad as love can be, it is mostly associated with romantic feelings towards the opposite sex. But is that what love is all about? Or are we forgetting something important in regards to love? With the worn-out themes of love, guilt and tragedy; shaped over years and strengthened through literary devices such as characterization, conflict, and mood, Barabara Delinsky comes up with a novel befitting of a bestseller masterpiece, The Secret Between …show more content…

One of which is the Secret Between Us. Delinsky has a very rich background of the current events and the judicial system of the state and country where she lives in because she came from a family of lawyers and because she married a law student at a very young age. As knowledgeable as Delinsky is, she experienced a misfortune at eight years old when her mother departed. The death of her mother did not hinder Barbara to succeed. As a matter of fact, she used that misfortune as a fuel to ignite her writer’s instincts. In her book, The Secret Between Us, she put her experience by stating that the mother of Deborah, the protagonist is already dead. Regarding her novels, as stated by Delinsky, her novels mainly focus on “character-driven studies of marriage, parenthood, sibling rivalry, and friendship. An unshakeable proof to this is her novel, The Secret Between Us which is very consistent in showing the aforementioned …show more content…

McKenna was at the hospital and it was all her fault- and nothing her friends could say would make it better.” (Delinsky, 18) In here, the main conflict which is the dissonance caused by the incident escalates as Grace starts to face social discrimination and social obligations. She starts to feel the weight of the unprecedented accident her stubbornness caused. In here, the sense of guilt is very impregnable. However, the addition of the strong guilt Grace feels, adds more spice to the story and continues to dig further the readers’ hearts and minds. With the mind-blowing conflicts that occurred, the story progresses with readers having greater anticipation and

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