is it necessary to keep a secret and when it's necessary to reveal one? I believe itś necessary to keep a secret from someone depending on how bad it can hurt you or the person youŕe keeping it from. Itś necessary to keep a secret only if it won't hurt you or the person youŕe keeping it from. In The Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne a young woman keeps a secret not only having a baby with with someone not being her husband but keeping his daughters dad (Dimmesdale) a secret. Also Hester Prynne…
By keeping the creation of the monster a secret, Victor continually puts many of his family and friends at risk. By letting people know of his creation, Victor could have possibly killed the monster and ended both of their despairs forever. An example of selfish secrets is in Chapter 22 where Victor says, “I avoided explanation and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created. I had…
novel. Victor from a young age was very ambitious and yearned for knowledge. This lead him to the study of biology at the university in Ingolstadt. He learns all he can from his professors and then further pushes the boundaries by learning the “secret to life”, thus creating the monster. However, this characteristic of craving knowledge can be seen not only in Victor but also in the monster. Created and abandoned…
Deep, dark secrets are not an aspect of life that came to age with 21st century technology. However, through the modern medium of the World Wide Web, there has been a new cultural phenomenon called “PostSecret,” which provides people a window to anonymously share their secrets. This phenomenon began in 2005 when Frank Warren initiated an art project that welcomed people to anonymously mail him their secrets on postcards. Since 2005, on every Sunday Warren has released new batches of secrets so…
Understanding Family Secrets For our project, we have decided to take a closer look at the topic of family secrets, and more specifically at the four different types of family secrets. Family secrets involve information purposefully hidden or concealed by one or more family members. The four types of secrets are sweet, essential, toxic and dangerous. Galvin, Braithwaite, & Bylund (2015) describe sweet secrets as those that protect fun surprises and they are time limited. Essential secrets tend…
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,…
seem to make a nest in the back of your mind. The book 13 Gifts written by Wendy Mass, Mass creates a story that grasps the beginning of new memories. During 13 Gifts the main character, Tara, creates new memories by finding herself, discovering secrets, and paying off debt. “The sidelines may be safer but life is played on the field.” (Ch. 23, pg 339). This is a quote by the main character after she has learned the true meaning of herself. In the beginning of the book Tara has always gone…
city of Boo York, there was this girl who was born with special power. But she kept it a secret from everyone, even her best friend. She used to think that if she tells her best friend about the secret that she keeps to herself, her friend will start to think that she is very weird and all of that stuff. But she was wrong about what she thought her friend would think of her.Because her friend also had a secret that she had never told anyone. Arnella is a girl at Falcon High school. She has been…
Barbara’s”. The unconscious act of thinking about Barbara allows the reader to infer that Stephen is maturing and developing via the friendship of the girl. Before their friendship began, Babara cleverly extracts information about Stephen and Keith’s secret games, but we also see she would like to replace Keith. He is questioned by her and sets the friendship in motion. “Why do you like him when he’s so horrible?” She recognises the details Stephen doesn’t showing already that she is more…
The history of African Americans has always been limited in many school systems creating an ignorance to many people on the construction of this race. To truly understand why a race of people do things you need to know their history and where they came from. The African American Experience is often considered one of the most interesting pieces in history. Africa, the world’s oldest populated area and also considered the beginning of humanity was comprised up to 10,000 different states and groups…