Dangerous Secrets Exposed in Our Secret by Griffin Secrets belong to every human being. Even children, in their first years in this world, learn to bury secrets in their hearts. In "Our Secret" by Susan Griffin she explores the subconscious, targeting in particular the dark secrets that lie in the abyss of the human heart. Griffin states that each person's darkest secrets are similar, in the sense that these secrets are perverse and prejudicial thoughts. These hidden evils are so deeply rooted that people forget or choose to forget the existence of these evil thoughts. However, these are often the thoughts that will encourage a person to resort to violence. Griffin believes that people share similar forms of hidden desires, prejudices, and ferocity. The effects of keeping these evil human characteristics deeply buried have similar effects on different individuals as well. The way to counteract the negative effects caused by these locked secrets is also common between the "family" and the "statesmen and bombers". desires. Everyone is a product of the "DNA molecule" and everyone was a "fertilized egg" (Our Secret 363, 365). There are numerous traits shared by all, and one of them is people's ability to have and hide their perverse thoughts. Everyone is capable of having depraved thoughts and these thoughts are not that different from person to person. Griffin's grandfather keeps "a stack of magazines" of "women or girls discovered in ditches, torn to pieces, or otherwise mutilated" that he does not allow Griffin to look at (335). These magazines indicate that Gr...... middle of paper ......or realized this too late. As Griffin says, "family secrets mix with statesman and bomber secrets" in the sense that secrets may vary between individuals in context, but many different secrets share the same effect on people. These secrets and desires that people keep inside are dangerous sources of violence and malice, and there is virtually no way to get rid of these hidden evils. People can often be driven to hurt, and these are the times when they need to examine their anger and see the pain they can cause by physically venting their anger. This is perhaps the only way to stop violence in a person, be it a simple man, the president or an emperor. Works Cited: Griffin, Susan. “Our secret”. Ways of reading the editions. David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. Sixth edition. Boston. New York: Bedford/St. Martin, 2002.