If you cannot be open with your colleagues, friends as well as your loved ones, then what is life all about? In Can You Keep a Secret?, written by Sophie Kinsella, readers have a chance to read from the perspective of a young woman with a desire to change her life who is haunted by this question. It is a romantic and humor filled novel aimed at mainly teens and young adults. The popular novel was written by Sophie Kinsella a UK born former financial journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling books Confessions of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Takes Manhattan, and Shopaholic ties the knot. The novel was published by the Dial Press a Division of a Random House, Inc. in 2004.
Emma Corrigan is an average young woman living in London, England trying to climb the corporate ladder of Panther Cola. She is a marketing assistant, yet she yearns for a promotion to marketing executive so that she can show her family, especially her overachiever Cousin Kerry, that she can be successful. She is offered the opportunity to be a representative from Panther Cola at a deal in Glasgow. She accepts the offer hoping it would help her get her a promotion. The deal is turned down and ultimately ended as a total disaster.
Later on, Emma gets on the plane and drowns her sorrows. Midway through the flight back home, the plane’s turbulence gets hit. An intoxicated Emma believes she will die and blurts out all her secrets to a stranger, who is an astonishingly good listener. Subsequently, the passengers are reassured the plane is fine. Awash with embarrassment, she persuades herself that she will never encounter the stranger who knows everything about her again.
When Emma goes back to work, an awful surprise is waiting for her. The man who knows...
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...riend Jack. Emma’s desire to change her life had finally been fulfilled.
The novel is a typical teen novel with an eccentric style of humor and undeniably adorable romance. Even though it’s aimed at young women and female teens, males and people of all ages would enjoy as well. It is at a lower reading level and easy to read, therefore not much inference is needed. The Climax interesting, it has good moral of being open with others, and the plot is unique. The book has a lot of suspense to it. Furthermore, it is a hard to put down once you start. If you're looking for a light, happy, feel-good, novel to read to pass leisure time I would recommend picking this one up.
In conclusion Can You Keep a Secret?, was a fun book that lifted my spirits and made me smile repeatedly. It was a bit too easy for my liking, but overall I enjoyed reading it for the book report.
The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson, written by Lois Simmie, is a hybrid book featuring a nonfiction storyline with a personal, albeit fabricated, flare which gives us a glimpse into what the interior dialogue of the individuals involved the novel might have felt. The essence in focus centres around John Wilson, sometimes referred to as Jack, and the double life which he opts to play. Throughout the plot of the novel, personalities clash and emotions formerly unseen rise to the surface. One action is used as a recurring theme anchoring all of the chapters and events together, that being deception. Betrayal and deception by the hands of John Wilson were shown towards the main individuals of the novel, namely Polly, Elizabeth, and Jessie.
I found the book to be easy, exciting reading because the story line was very realistic and easily relatable. This book flowed for me to a point when, at times, it was difficult to put down. Several scenes pleasantly caught me off guard and some were extremely hilarious, namely, the visit to Martha Oldcrow. I found myself really fond of the char...
I would recommend this book to people who love realistic stories. Personally for me it is hard to find books that interest me and this one felt like if I was watching someone else's life while I read it. It has so many interesting points. When you think something might happen
In conclusion, I would highly recommend this book to early teens who are fans of drama and comedy because they could probably relate to most of the issues discussed to a certain extent. Girls my age, especially, would enjoy this book as they could relate to the issues discussed and they have probably already experienced similar
Perhaps no other event in modern history has left us so perplexed and dumbfounded than the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, an entire population was simply robbed of their existence. In “Our Secret,” Susan Griffin tries to explain what could possibly lead an individual to execute such inhumane acts to a large group of people. She delves into Heinrich Himmler’s life and investigates all the events leading up to him joining the Nazi party. In“Panopticism,” Michel Foucault argues that modern society has been shaped by disciplinary mechanisms deriving from the plague as well as Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, a structure with a tower in the middle meant for surveillance. Susan Griffin tries to explain what happened in Germany through Himmler’s childhood while Foucault better explains these events by describing how society as a whole operates.
The theme of this story is that when something bad happens you need to talk about it. It can trigger more and more problems if you don’t get it off your chest. When you keep the secret to yourself it builds up and eats away at you. Then it makes you angrier about the problem. By not telling anyone it doesn’t help the problem any.
In "Our Secret" by Susan Griffin, the essay uses fragments throughout the essay to symbolize all the topics and people that are involved. The fragments in the essay tie together insides and outsides, human nature, everything affected by past, secrets, cause and effect, and development with the content. These subjects and the fragments are also similar with her life stories and her interviewees that all go together. The author also uses her own memories mixed in with what she heard from the interviewees. Her recollection of her memory is not fully told, but with missing parts and added feelings. Her interviewee's words are told to her and brought to the paper with added information. She tells throughout the book about these recollections.
Emma's arrogance shines through when she brags that she is exceptionally skillful at matching couples. She believes that she is in control of fate and must play matchmaker in order for couples to discover their true love. Austen confirms, "The real evils indeed of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself" (Austen 1). Although Emma is so spoiled and overbearing, she truly doesn't realize this fact.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is an eighteenth century novel that takes place in England and France during the French Revolution. The story takes places during the months September and October in the year 1792. In England we see the characters in a rural area free from death. For example, The Fishermen’s Rest is a small countryside pub where many of the characters such as Marguerite St. Just, Percy Blakeney, Lord Antony, and Andrew are seen safe. In France, however, the mood is very different. It is of civil unrest and the French aristocrats and people who help them must fear for their lives.
Secrets by their very definition are truths that are not mean to be known by others. As a result of that, if what is being held in is shocking or revealing, it can be destructive. When the truth behind a secret is revealed, it can lead to a break in trust between people, and conflicts that shouldn’t have happened.
...o hiding in a secret room in an old spice factory. The publication of her diary after the war allowed for an eye oppening experience of what life was like in hiding from the Nazis. Anne tells her story over the period of a few years in which she goes through teenage drama and aingst all while fearing for life during WWII. After her last entry, the Franks are discovered and sent to consentration camps where they are all killed except Otto Frank, Anne's father. Anne's diary has been translated into many languages and to this day is the second highest selling non-fiction book, only surpassed by the bible.
The diary is an accurate record of the way Anne grows up and matures, in the unfortunate situation she found herself. Given the circumstances in which the novel is written Anne gave a very vivid description of her surroundings and the feelings she encountered throughout her ordeal. The novel displays the grief and frustration that is experienced throughout the time spent in hiding. The emotions of the situation are captured in the text and gives validity to the pain and frustration encountered. Despite the amusing and enlightening side of the diary, that documents the process of her adolescence, it also provides a vividly terrifying description of what it was like to be Jewish hiding during the time the Nazis sought to kill all the Jews in Europe. After two years of living in the "secret annex", behind a bookcase, and having to be extremely quite during the day so that the workers in the office and warehouse below could not hear them the family was captured.
Emma, a novel by Jane Austen, is the story of a young woman, Emma, who is rich, stubborn, conniving, and occupies her time meddling into others' business. There are several recurring themes throughout the novel; the ideas of marriage, social class, women's confinement, and the power of imagination to blind the one from the truth, which all become delineated and reach a climax during the trip to Box Hill. The scene at Box Hill exposes many underlying emotions that have been built up throughout the novel, and sets the stage for the events that conclude it.
Choosing secrets for the topic of my research, -being an obvious theme in the readings- seemed both interesting and easy to collect information on. Secrets are common experiences so there are various opinions on this subject, they affect some people in different ways than others. So surely theres a lot of information out there, but what i’m getting to is the feelings and problems that secrets can bring into a relationship or into a persons life, using the information gathered from books, real life experiences, and research to prove points on my theme. As displayed in A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, and Freefall by Mindi Scott, secrets can have a negative effect on the relationships between people, but once revealed, there is a sense of relief on the subject.
In the short story “A Secret for Two”, there is an old man named Pierre who delivered milk to the people of Montreal with his best friend Joseph, a horse. One day Joseph died and Pierre was heartbroken. Pierre started walking down the streets in depression; all of a sudden he got hit by a truck and died. Doctors found out that Pierre was blind for five years. This secret was kept between Pierre and Joseph. This story represents philia, a love of friends. They had spent a lot of time with each other and had kept secrets. At the end of the story Pierre’s boss says “None of us knew. Only one knew- a friend of his named Joseph…It was a secret, I think, just between those two.” Two friends were able to keep a secret for five years until someone discovered it. Friends keep secrets so the other friend will feel secure.