Bridget Keehan's Short Story: Sorry For The Loss

From the book “The Giver”, I have noticed an important message that the author wanted to tell us – The importance of freedom.

There are many writings, speeches, and songs about freedom. Many are about becoming free and wanting the taste of not being ruled or having restrictions. Maya Angelou’s “Caged Bird” and Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech are both on freedom. They are similar because in each writing, they long for the taste of freedom. Similarly, they are different because their visuals stand for different topics.

Have you ever thought about what it would be like not to be free? What would it be like not to be able to make choices? What would it be like not to be able to do what you want? It's scary to think about not being free, but even in the world today some people don't even have basic human freedoms. Lois Lowry shows us in her books The Giver and Gathering Blue what it would be like not to have freedom and how important it is that we have it.

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion,” is a quote written by Albert Camus, which displays the complexity of defining the term freedom. Jean-Paul Sartre’s play “The Flies,” defines the concept of freedom as the accountability of one’s own guilt, which allows individuals to recognize their own freedom. Furthermore, an individual that accepts accountability for one’s own guilt and responsibility for the city, or complete isolation, is living in freedom. Likewise, Zora Neal Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God explores the notion of being or becoming absolutely free, finding her voice,

In The Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King researches freedom using various frameworks. Freedom was symbolized in the book as pin-ups, rock figures, and Jake. Andy never lost hope that he will be free again. Andy as we know was different from everyone else in prison, that’s what made him stand out. His personality is what made his escape succeed. He didn’t rush for his freedom he was wise to be patient about it. Freedom is your decision, however you must strive to get it. You need to acknowledge what your principle point in life is, if it’s to find genuine freedom, you must give all that you got. In any case, first you have to understand that you are living in a jail. You have to get a look of what's conceivable. When you encounter what genuine freedom poses a flavor like, there is no doing a reversal, paradise is conceivable in this life

Thucydides, an Athenian historian and general, once said, “The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.” Freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. Throughout history, reformers have rallied against leaders and fought for what they believed in. To live a quality life, certain freedoms are necessary. In a Eulogy for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.F by Robert F. Kennedy, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, and Animal Farm by George Orwell, different types of people are represented through different ideas of struggling for freedom: a man leading others to receive the freedom they want, a man going against society’s rules to read literature, and animals overtaking humans in hopes of being treated fairly.

Freedom is defined as being at liberty rather than in confinement or under physical restraint; furthermore, to be released from an external force or control (dictionary). “Harrison Bergeron” is a short story that is in a society where the government is trying to make everyone equal, using handicaps to decrease certain individuals traits or qualities that are above average. In the novella Anthem, the people and society went back to the past when they are far into the future. The people are living in caves and have seemed to have lost or forgotten what people before them have discovered and believed. “Harrison Bergeron” and Anthem are very different but also have many similarities, especially referring to family and education.

Born free, with the God-given rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, I declare myself independent from the servitude of worry. Worry has robbed me of precious nights that I could have rested. It has reigned over my life like a monarch, unwilling to resign from it position. Worry has caused me not to enjoy life to the fullest. It has left me like a broken-winged eagle,

Have you ever thought about doing something but later getting judged, hated and misunderstood. Do you feel as if you don’t have the freedom you deserve. Like you can’t be you and can't do what you want to do. Like you don't have freedom. Freedom is a common thought, the three authors show the characters just want justice, freedom and peace.

Dracula and The Autobiography of Malcolm X both have different versions of freedom. They speak on how the mind can be controlled. Dr. John "Jack" Seward, a psychologist, talks about his patient. His patient is very well under some sort of imprisonment

Personally, the importance of one’s freedom in life is drawn upon by the lives of my grandparents. Although my maternal grandmother and grandfather are 75 and 77 years of age, respectively, they continue to live fulfilling and productive lives. It is not to be said that they have not suffered from problems related to aging, such as my grandfather suffering from severe arthritis, but they value their freedom to continue living their own lives more than anything. The true worth of their ability to write their own stories is most evident in the fact that they are motivated to continue to write them throughout old age.

Numerous emancipated men and women struggled to be able to define freedom. Often, African Americans were left wondering how free was free. Was freedom merely an illusion to them or was it something deeper; absenteeism of captivity, negotiate for compensation, the right to be educated, or own land.

Freedom is something that people take for granted. They think little of it until it is snatched away from them. That moment is when they realize how precious freedom is. In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” a lottery that has been going on for many years is held and a woman named Tessie Hutchinson “wins” and she is stoned to death. In Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” a summer festival is held and there is happiness everywhere except for one child who is locked away in a basement or cellar. The child is naked, alone, and miserable. In Jackson’s “The Lottery” and Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” they state how the suffering of one lone person is needed to keep the rest of the people happy and free because of tradition, chaos control, assumptions.

This freedom allows him to be able to love her and forge a new life and new

Many thought that it would be like heaven. But, while working as slaves they had no real idea of what freedom would be like. A free person from a less-developed, less-educated background, when captivated, wouldn’t know what freedom meant. However, after gaining