This is a blog for thinking about my reading and also my relations to what I read.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Test prep 4
"This is the story they didn't want you to know."
What is a secret? What lies behind a secret? How do we find out about these secrets? is what I think when I read GHOST IN THE FOG - By Samantha Seiple since it has so much hidden details of World War II that is unheard of. The secrets in this book mainly are described as things the government or specifically the world around us doesn't know but the author does and I wonder how does she know more because shes a woman.
To start off I wanted to know why did the author want us to know these secrets? Maybe they could be interesting but, their had to be a more sophisticated reason because why now? Why should we hear about the secrets now instead of years ago after the war had finished. Hearing about the secrets now hasn't only made me wonder more about The United States secrecy but it has also made me develop a theory that maybe it was to avoid panic of other countries being overpowered by Japan since they had such a big expanding empire.
Another thing I thought about was how come the author isn't a man? I'm not being stereotypical but from research it said most women played roles as nurses and if women didn't get much exposure to fighting in war how could the author know so much, mainly since the secrets couldn't be mentioned? This being said instead of the author maybe being a nurse I thought maybe she was a spy or journalist that developed stories to keep people and countries updated on news. The news she personally developed into stories were probably her secrets.
The secrets maybe werent of the US or Japan they could probably just be her own opinion on what secrets of World War II were and she made them seem like facts. This way of writing is a mixture of nonfiction and maybe memoir so it seems new and fresh , its also quite interesting which makes my book solitary and original. Everyone has their own story and in this case, this is her story being told.
What is a secret? What lies behind a secret? How do we find out about these secrets? is what I think when I read GHOST IN THE FOG - By Samantha Seiple since it has so much hidden details of World War II that is unheard of. The secrets in this book mainly are described as things the government or specifically the world around us doesn't know but the author does and I wonder how does she know more because shes a woman.
To start off I wanted to know why did the author want us to know these secrets? Maybe they could be interesting but, their had to be a more sophisticated reason because why now? Why should we hear about the secrets now instead of years ago after the war had finished. Hearing about the secrets now hasn't only made me wonder more about The United States secrecy but it has also made me develop a theory that maybe it was to avoid panic of other countries being overpowered by Japan since they had such a big expanding empire.
Another thing I thought about was how come the author isn't a man? I'm not being stereotypical but from research it said most women played roles as nurses and if women didn't get much exposure to fighting in war how could the author know so much, mainly since the secrets couldn't be mentioned? This being said instead of the author maybe being a nurse I thought maybe she was a spy or journalist that developed stories to keep people and countries updated on news. The news she personally developed into stories were probably her secrets.
The secrets maybe werent of the US or Japan they could probably just be her own opinion on what secrets of World War II were and she made them seem like facts. This way of writing is a mixture of nonfiction and maybe memoir so it seems new and fresh , its also quite interesting which makes my book solitary and original. Everyone has their own story and in this case, this is her story being told.