Freedom - a Stranger Came to Town

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Freedom, we all know what it is but what does it really mean? The dictionary defines freedom as “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint,” Oxford Dictionaries. In his short story, “The Strangers that Came to Town”, Ambrose Flack is showing that true freedom is about being accepted. The reasons I believe that this story is about true freedom means being accepted is because the although they are living in a free country it takes the town accepting them to really flourish, although they are free people and have rights the towns people do not respect those rights, and freedom is having value and the Duvitches were not seen as having value. Being in the free means you can do what you please and should be accepted by all. Unfortunately in this story things did not start that way. The Duvitches came to this town because “For years before coming to America they had been on the move, to escape starvation, separation, possible assassination.” (2), so they were hoping to finally get away from all that. The town however did not accept them or help them in anyway which really made their life harder, but once, at the end of the story, when the town accepted them they flourished in the community and began to live how they wanted to live in a free country. Because of the fact that they could not really flourish in the community until they were accepted, this story really shows that true freedom is acceptance. Coming to a free country from an restricted country, like the Duvitches did, means that they gain many more rights then they did before. The right to speak ones mind, right to feel safe, right to not be harassed, and many more. The town however did not respect these rights at all because they were different. They did things like when the “Syringa Street young, meeting him on the street, sometimes stopped their noses as they

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