There are secrets and cover ups that happen right in front of millions of people, but no one sees them because many times people are too afraid to speak out. Why are people afraid to speak out? They do not want to hurt people that are close to them and are afraid of what the reaction will be. Secrets affect many people not just those close to the secret, they affect a vast amount of people, have strange or unexpected beginnings, have consequential results, are rarely resolved to satisfaction and have a lot of power. Secrets affect many people that have nothing to do with the secret in many different ways. Secrets are very harmful and have a butterfly effect. The lies just get bigger and bigger and affect a vast amount of people. Secrets …show more content…
We do not expect secrets to come from the places they start. Secrets occur in places no is looking for scandals to happen and often go unnoticed or unchanged for a long time due to the insignificance of the place it is occurring. In New Zeland there was a political scandal and, “New Zeland can tend to be on the bland side compared with other countries” (Hume 1). The political scandal went unnoticed and has not had any consequences because of the ‘blandness’ of New Zeland. If this sort of thing were to occur in for example the United States of America, there would be a full investigation and harsh consequences. There were “ Allegations that secret information had been declassified and passed to Slater for political purposes” (Hume 1). No one did anything about this scandal, and there were no consequences, due to the fact the New Zeland is seemingly unimportant. The one accused of committing the crime or in this case ‘not committing a crime’ did not get punished because the country considered it small and not big enough to investigate. In The Scarlett Letter, many people sin and break the rules of their community, but no one investigates or does anything about it. Only when something big happens does the whole town react with such emotion, even though they themselves have committed many sins themselves. People hide their scandals and secrets for as long as possible, but eventually the secret will come out and some one, if not many people, will go down when it is revealed. This is especially true when the secret is hidden for a very long period of time. For example “Sandusky hid his actions over many years”, when this scandal finally came into light there was a huge reaction from millions of people in the country. This is partly due to the fact that one would not expect this type of thing to happen at the place that it occurred. Sandusky was supposed to be a college level athletic personel at one of the most