family+secret

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My family doesnt really have any big secrets that we have to keep. Or any secrets that i know about. I dont really have any secrets from my friends but i guess someone could twist the meaning of secrets to make it seem as though i have them. What i mean is that if they dont ask, i dont really have any reason to bring up the secret. It isnt like i am hiding anything from them, just that i dont find it necessayry to tell them everything. I can only guess what it feels like to have a secret. I think it could be a big burden. I dont really know how i would act if i had a big secret to keep like the one that is in //Middlesex.// When i ask someone to keep a secret, usually someone that i trust, i only tell the amount that they need to know. i find myself to be a somewhat private person so i dont put myself in situations where i tell people my secrets. One the other hand there are a few people that do confide in me with their secrets. I respect their wishes and attempt tokeep the secret. Most of the time my mom or dad are the ones asking me to keep the secret so i make sure i keep it inside. When i have to keep it inside, most of the time the secret doesnt bother me. there are the few occasions that i had to tell someone my secret but there was no one i trusted to listen. In this case i write in a notebook my feelings. there are only three journals, but i think they helped my emotions to stay at equilibruim.

I thought it was interesting to see the differences between Lina and Desdemona. Lina is so much more Americanized compared to Desdemona. Lina only wears her mourning clothes for 40 days and Desdemona says that she should wear them the rest of her life but Lina responds with, 40 days is enough. Then when looking for a job, Lina is the one who has to read the English adds to Desdemona because Desdemona has yet to learn how to read, much less speak English. Desdemona then chooses a job that brings he back to her roots, silk worker. Lina has embraced her new homeland and somewhat forgotten Greece and everything it stands for while Desdemona wants nothing more than to remember her past life in Greece.