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 …showed first 75 words of 584 total…

…showed last 75 words of 584 total…memories. The author also uses her memories of the past when she hears the stories. The author also says in context to the whole essay that she can only tell the stories, but the reader decides what the essay is about. The author throughout the essay is linking fragments to the content that is within.In other words, she is taking her memories and interviewees stories and linking them to the fragments as a whole.