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A 7 page essay that examines Susan Griffin's novel Our Secret and Hayden Carruths' essay "Country Matters." The writer argues that these works are visions of the human condition, which resemble the wild, jagged edges of a jazz rift that screams along the nerves, rather than take the path of the comforting harmonies that typically characterize what is read and thought. These works are quite different in both their style and substance, but they are also radical in their own unique way. No bibliographical information provided.
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mainstream literature. Griffins novel Our Secret and Carruths essay "Country Matters" are visions of the human condition, which resemble the wild, jagged edges of a jazz rift that screams along
the nerves, rather than take the path of the comforting harmonies that typically characterize what is read and thought. These works are quite different in both their style and
substance, but they are also radical in their own unique way. From the beginning of Griffins Our Secret, the text is interspersed with short paragraphs in italic that describe
current events that pertain to technology or scientific facts. The narrator describes a girl called "Laura" who is speaking about her past and her relationship to her father, who was
the commander of the military base. Although nuclear missiles were just blocks from their home, her father never spoke of them or the Cold War. "Certain questions were never
answered" (Griffins 404). This text is interrupted by an italic paragraph that states that the "first guided missile is developed in Germany, during World War II..." (Griffins 404).
Storytelling since the time of the Greeks has been linear in its structure. Lewis Carroll summed up this tradition nicely in Alice in Wonderland when the Cheshire Cat says to
Alice "Start at the beginning and when you come to the end, stop." However, Griffin ignores this tradition and takes the reader back and forth through time in a
manner that begins to create a mental mosaic of World War II, Heinrich Himmler and the Holocaust while showing how this history relates to the life of the narrator and
the present. The narrator says, "Often I have looked back into my past with a new insight only to find that some old, hardly recollected feelings fits into a larger
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