Symbols In The Quiet Kill

To be free means you have freedom and certain rights without anyone interfering with you. You can also do things at your own will. However, during Reconstruction African Americans were not free because whites abused the fact that they had rights and would overpower them. One example is the Ku Klux Klan.

“I am self-propelled; fueled from within. I appreciate people’s opinions, but I am not attached to them. I learned a long time ago that if I give them the power to feed me, I also give them the power to starve me.” -Dr. Steve Maraboli. When I read this quote I thought he was describing that no one can hold him back and he is going to be free. My question is what does it mean to be free? Does it mean not caring what others think about you? Or is it being free to accomplish your dreams with no regrets and nothing holding you back? Being free means different things to different people. In the poem “Caged Bird,” by Maya Angelou, she talks about two types of people one being caged and one being free. In his poem “Mother to Son,” Langston Hughes talks about there will bumps in the road of life, but you have to forge your path to be free. In the poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost discusses the two roads a person can take, either you can be free and not care about other's opinions, or you can be trapped by everyone’s thoughts about you. You can be free by not caring about others opinion’s on you, but by making your own path. So will you choose to be free or will you choose to be dragged down by other’s opinions about you?

Freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. There are different forms of freedom, two of which are physical and mental freedom. People advocate the rights of both physical and mental freedom of others who can not. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Malala Yousafzai fought for physical freedom whereas John F. Kennedy fought for mental freedom. In order to be completely free, someone must posses both physical and mental freedom.

Being free is a sense of when nothing in the world can define you except for yourself. Your choices and beliefs are shaped by your own interpretations of what you perceive or think. Referring to the book, it states, “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers” (Rand 101). When Equality 7-2521 lived in the city, he wasn’t allowed to speculate his own thoughts and keep information to himself. However, in the Uncharted Forest, he realized he was allowed to do anything he wanted. Therefore, what you want to be or do should be based on your own feelings, nobody else’s. People don’t have a right to make you feel ashamed of your dissimilarities

I think there's something to what your saying, but you have to remember that to be free there also has to be a slave as well. The story goes that man starts out as an animal, as another object in nature that obliterates other objects. But man wants to be assured that the he is not just another object, but something more. He needs recognition from an outside source for this, because he could be mistaken. Everything he encounters he consumes, in other words he transforms to suit his ends. He eats food to fill his hunger, he burns wood to satisfy his desire for warmth, but there is nothing that remains that can fill that recognition for what he is, or rather what he wants to be.

The power or right to act, speak or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. A word created by man to escape the bonds of tyranny to express the idea of what it means to persist one's own ambitions. Freedom. Freedom is not the absence of confinement but the will to achieve freedom when imprisoned. After carefully concluding the reading done over this semester one is able to clearly understand the confinement these early Americans felt and their decision to achieve a form of freedom. Freedom has always existed but it is the history of this nation that will define what actions freedom takes.

Therefore humans can be as free as their unlimited cognizance. It is in this self-consciousness that determines their highest power of thought and contradiction. We determine our own essential nature within. How free do we want to be? The chose is yours.

Freedom is not actually free because if it were free we could do what we want. We could also control our own lives. The food we eat would most likely be free. We wouldn't have to go to school. Nothing is free because even if you are your own boss you have to follow the laws or you will be even more unfree.

Freedom, the concept of not being held back from someone else’s needs, a world of not being held back by an outsider telling you that what you do is not allowed. The general idea of being free can be summarized within 3 points. Being able to say what you want without fear that someone will come after you for your words. Being able to live your life as abnormal as it is as long as it doesn’t harm someone else’s life. Being able to go out and be comfortable in your own skin no matter the abnormalities or differences between physical appearance.

Free-dom (free-dem) n. 1. The state or quality of being free; a) exemption or liberation from the control of some other person or arbitrary power; liberty; independence b) being able to act, move, use etc. without hindrance or restraint, confinement or repression. Freedom. A word that many people take for granted, but don’t realize how lucky we truly are. Freedom is a gift that is endowed upon us, whereas not everyone else in this world is presented with that same gift. Along with the idea of fighting for rights and freedom, many individuals have worked hard toward achieving the goal of ending slavery once and for all. America was affected both negatively and positively by the words and actions of many people. Through

The word freedom is often associated with the idea of an unfettered liberty to select from a range of alternatives coupled with a sense that our actions will not affect our natural state.

Freedom is being free from rules and ability to speak for your self. Bryon and Mark had been in fights and going places like to a bar, different towns, and hippie places. Mark and Bryon one time went out of town for two weeks. They have freedom to do all that because; Bryon’s mother was in the hospital. Mark and Bryon were either stealing or selling things to pay off Bryon’s mother hospital bill. Their freedom is not truly free because, of jobs and the hustling, and helping out their friends. Mark, Bryon, and Cathy went to a dance. Bryon and Cathy were on a date and found Mark there also. (Hinton, p54). When Mark got into a fight with some random guy their age, Mark got hit with a bottle and had to go to the hospital. (Hinton, p57). Their freedom

There are many definitions of the term "freedom." Some will say that to be free one must be allowed to do as one pleases in terms of one's physical body, while others will say that one must only be able to think to be truly free. Yet another group will argue that both aspects must be present for true freedom to exist.

     I think that there is no good definition for the word freedom for the simple fact nobody’s free

Freedom means living life as one wants, everything else is a form of slavery. If a person is not allowed to make his or hers decisions, if he or she is not free to live life as he/she wants than he/she doesn’t have power over his or her existence. If freedom was not essential for every human being than no one would have found so fiercely for it. If it was not important than today we would not be still fighting to keep and extend our freedom.