Common Themes of Our secret
“The nightmare images of the German child-rearing practices that one discovers in this book call to mind the catastrophic events of recent German history” (350). This quote, taken from Susan Griffin’s Our Secret, shows us the situation Heinrich Himmler would have been brought up by. The upbringing of children in Germany at the time was very harsh according to our standards today. I find that his father had oppressed Himmler, and this may have been what caused him to have his sick and twisted views as a grown-up. Similarly, their peers also oppressed males in The Chrysanthemums and Trifles. In Griffin’s tale, she gives us the account of how Heinrich Himmler had been responsible for the deaths of some six million Jews. If an order had been given to kill a Jew during the Holocaust, he in some way affected it. For a man to be able to cause such suffering upon another human being would have to be tormented in some form in his life. While his own suffering may have been unbearable for him, the amount of suffering and oppression that he had put on millions of others must have tortured hi
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Chrysanthemums Elisa, Jew Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, Hitler Similarly, , Trifles Griffins, Griffins Secret, heinrich himmler, solve murder, amount suffering, todays standards, suffering people,
Approximate Word count = 739
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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