For this final paper (labeled Final Paper) you will be writing in conjunction to Susan Griffins text Our Secret, but you may also include any of the previous texts and their ideas. If you do choose to do this, remember that these texts are for augmenting your work on Griffin, so Our Secret should remain the primary text while the others will be the secondary sources. You may use ideas from your journals, but please do not just copy and paste large segments into this paper. Make sure the ideas, concepts, etc. fit into this paper and flow in a logical manner. paper should be a concept or question that you are interested in exploring further; a topic or point that you find confusing and choose to navigate the gray areas, looking into the complications to try and resolve that confusion; ideas or themes that you feel Griffin emphasizes, hints at, encompasses, etc. and/or uses to link all of the disparate parts of her text; etc Whatever you pick as your premise, you then would bring in all of the characters, such as Himmler, Griffin herself, Helene, etc. and things, such as the rocket, the cell, etc. to use within your discussion.
2. Reread Susan Griffins Our Secret, paying particular attention to her understanding of memory. One might say that her essay illuminates the political aspects [my commentary-not just political, but all or multiple other specific topic aspects] of memory and the attendant dangers of forgetting. Griffin ends her essay, And so in the daylight you try to erase what you have encountered and to forget those tracks that are laid even as if someplace in your body, even as part of yourself. Think about what can occur and how one might be concerned with the complex workings and implications of memory. Consider and discuss how Griffin might consider and illuminate one anothers ideas about memory and forgetting Find other passages from Griffin that seem deeply connected to memory.
