For every effect, there is one distinct cause. What happened today happened because of yesterday. Nonetheless, these statements do not always hold true. Sometimes there is not one single cause for an event but rather multiple hard to decipher causes. Such thought is no exception to Susan Griffin. In “Our Secret”, Susan converses about the connection between the past and the present as well as the connection between a variety of different causes for one effect. She uses a variety of juxtaposition, anecdotes, and fragmented processes of the nucleus and the scientific machineries throughout her fifty or so pages of memoir to discuss not only the relation between causes and effects of actions but also to answer her ultimate question, who are we?
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Compared to the teachers who Rodriguez idolized, his parents seem shameful to him. Rodriguez’s father had a negative attitude toward education, despising “the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation” while his mother wanted a close “Mexican styled family” (Rodriguez 522). However, unlike Leo, Himmler, and Griffin’s grandfather, Rodriguez did not follow his parents’ ways of thinking. Instead, his father’s negative attitude toward education and his mother’s desires of a close knitted family affected him in how he portrays his parents as uneducated people. In other words, Rodriguez did not become like his father and mother; he became the opposite, an admirer of education and an admirer of educated people. Although Rodriguez did not follow his parents ways of thinking, he was still affected by …show more content…
She places an emphasis on how a cell function, how there is a selective permeability in which a cell’s nucleus chooses what to let into its own mechanism and what to kick out of its system and how “messages to awaken these genes are transmitted by the surrounding cytoplasm, message from other cells, or from outside substances” (Griffin 380). In other words, Susan begins indirectly ask a rhetorical question: Are humans similar to cells in the animals and plants? Do they choose what goes into their own “cell” through a process similar to the process in a cell called selective permeability? Perhaps it is true that each individual can choose whether or not to be affected by an event or even by people around them like a cell allowing only some substances into its system. Nonetheless, it seems as though every single person in the world is still affected, if not slightly affected, by their childhood memories and by the people around them throughout life. It seems as though that we are still our past and the past makes us who we
Compared to the teachers who Rodriguez idolized, his parents seem shameful to him. Rodriguez’s father had a negative attitude toward education, despising “the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation” while his mother wanted a close “Mexican styled family” (Rodriguez 522). However, unlike Leo, Himmler, and Griffin’s grandfather, Rodriguez did not follow his parents’ ways of thinking. Instead, his father’s negative attitude toward education and his mother’s desires of a close knitted family affected him in how he portrays his parents as uneducated people. In other words, Rodriguez did not become like his father and mother; he became the opposite, an admirer of education and an admirer of educated people. Although Rodriguez did not follow his parents ways of thinking, he was still affected by …show more content…
She places an emphasis on how a cell function, how there is a selective permeability in which a cell’s nucleus chooses what to let into its own mechanism and what to kick out of its system and how “messages to awaken these genes are transmitted by the surrounding cytoplasm, message from other cells, or from outside substances” (Griffin 380). In other words, Susan begins indirectly ask a rhetorical question: Are humans similar to cells in the animals and plants? Do they choose what goes into their own “cell” through a process similar to the process in a cell called selective permeability? Perhaps it is true that each individual can choose whether or not to be affected by an event or even by people around them like a cell allowing only some substances into its system. Nonetheless, it seems as though every single person in the world is still affected, if not slightly affected, by their childhood memories and by the people around them throughout life. It seems as though that we are still our past and the past makes us who we