I really like the way Griffin incorporates a historical account of Himmler throughout the essay. I was able to find many parallels between the two. She mixes her personal accounts with various accounts of historical and academic writings. Her unique method allowed for me, the reader to be free to think. By free to think I mean, that Griffin doesn't try to get any one specific theme across. I fact, I find that she incorporates many themes. In a broad sense, I see in her essay, Griffin is examining life: what makes us humans with our emotions, fears, hatred for others, and our secrets. I think that Griffin wants the reader to look inside themselves, see anger and look at why they feel that way and why they may have hatred. By doing this I recognize a them of "self." Seeing yourself the way others see you and portraying your own self-image with in other people is human. Anger, guilt, fear are all coming from personal desire not to be what we are afraid of. .
A great quote that shows how Griffin acknowledges her frustration and fear is, "The feeling that I had let everything go out of control. I could only turn one direction, inward. Each day I abated my fears for a time by observing myself."(Griffin 358) I have felt her feelings of anguish and emptiness in the past. For a time, I lacked direction and motivation. This was very frustrating kept me secluded and inward, where I was evaluating my feelings, my panic, and my lack of direction in life. To be a college student and not know what I want to do with my education was scary. I was torn by numerous wants and needs in a career path, and I was overwhelmed with the lack of control I had over my future. It was like I was trying to climb a ladder, but I felt as if I was being torn away from my goals. I sometimes look at my past accomplishments, achievements, and my goals, and see frustration, failure, resentment, and solitude.
By writing this essay, Griffin reveals her own search for rage within herself.
(Griffin 17). ... So Griffin has to discover this code and follow it. ... All traces of the John Griffin I had been were wiped from existence. ... No, the reflections led back to Africa, back to the shanties and the ghetto, back to the fruitless struggles against the mark of blackness. ... John griffin wanted to go inside this world to find out what it was like. ...
It is only in this reflection of the immediate surrounding that the viewers can relate the narrator's identity to. ... The narrator always had a desire for people "who could give [him] a proper reflection of [his] importance" (Ellison 160). But there is no such thing as a proper reflection because his importance varies among different people. ... John Howard Griffin, the author and narrator of the true-life novel Black like Me demonstrated the interchangeability of identities and its effects. ... Griffin adopted his new identities when he "wakes up in a black man's skin" (Griffon ...
According to Griffin, (1982), self-awareness is the ability to be conscious of oneself in the context of recognising that you are a unique individual, and that it is you who is experiencing certain feelings, having certain thoughts, or being aware of certain objects. ... Blind people for example, cannot recognise themselves in a mirror, yet nobody would argue that they are not self-aware, similarly people brought up in communities in which mirrors are not used have also shown difficulty in recognising themselves when shown a mirror for the first time, and in fact some cases of prosopagnosia,...
It has been used in the fields of art (Christo-Bakargiev 1987), architecture (Pevsner 1967), liturature (Hassan 1971), video, economics, films (James 1991), ideology (Larrain 1994: 90-118), theology (Tilley at al 1995), and philosophy (Griffin et al 1993). ... David Ray Griffin describes clearly two different groups of the postmodern philosophies, Closely related to literary-artistic postmodernism is a philosophical postmodernism inspired by pragmatism, physicalism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida and other recent French thinkers . . .. ... (Griffin et al 199...
Power is held at the top and is shared among a limited number of individuals (Griffin & Moorhead, 1995). ... The amount of business communication on the job is influenced by cultural traits (McDaniel, Samover, 1997) and every organisation is a reflection of the culture in which it exists. ...
I also agree with Schaefer-Schiumo & Ginsberg, when they say that "school violence is not caused by the school but is a direct reflection of behaviors displayed outside the school and is the result of social changes in the united States communities" (p. 1). ... Harper and Griffin (2000), indicate in their book that counselors can also facilitate school wide violence education programs aimed at knowledge, prosocial skills, attudinal change, and violence prevention strategies for all school youths (p. 192). ...
Two years later he received the Nobel Prize for his "powerful, style-making mastery of the art or modern narration- (Griffin 1) for The Old Man and the Sea. ... REFLECTIONS OF HEMINGWAY'S LIFE Hemingway did not only create characters but created himself. ...
