![]() ![]() In an effort to reach out to her son, Brian's mother bought him a gift to take with him on his visit to his father. ![]() "Inside there was a hatchet, the kind with a steel handle and a rubber handgrip." (Narrator, Chapter 1, p. All he knows, is this is the cause of his family being torn apart and his world disintegrating in front of him. He doesn't know what to do with it or how to get rid of it. He is carrying this Secret around with him, as if it is a piece of unwanted luggage. His mother did not see him, his father did not know about the other man, and his friend, Terry, did not know Brian's secret either. He saw her alone with another man in the man's station wagon in a mall parking lot. What he knew and had not told anybody, what he knew about his mother that had caused the divorce, what he knew, what he knew- the Secret." (Brian Robeson, Chapter 1, p.3)īrian is thinking about how much his life has changed, because his mother had an affair. "No, not secrets so much as just the Secret. ![]()
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