Acceptance from Society Is Freedom

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Acceptance from Society is Freedom In order to have freedom, you have to have acceptance from society and the people around you. Not having this acceptance causes someone to feel like an outcast and not having the freedom to do things like everyone else. Ambrose Flack expresses freedom in such a way. In his short story, “The Strangers That Came to Town” Ambrose Flack is showing that true freedom is about being accepted. The Duvitches are a great example of this, but as well as Andy’s family and the town. The Duvitch family was seen as an immigrant family who was never accepted by the people of the town. In order for the family to have their true freedom, they needed to be accepted by society. The town saw this family as strange and “were considered antisocial.” (Flack 4). The young Duvitches were “regarded as born scavengers too, for they spent hours foraging in the town dump, where they often picked up their footgear, some of their pants and shirts and furnishings for the house as well.” (Flack 4).The family never really felt like they had freedom, until the end of the story where they were being accepted by the townspeople and seen has equals. Andy’s family was the first family to fully understand all the things the Duvitches were going through, they were also the first family to truly accept the Duvitches “Father was the only man on Syringa Street who tipped his hat to sixteen-year-old Maria Duvitch, when he met her coming home from her piece-work job in Miller’s Box Factory” (Page 5) Throughout the entire story the Duvitches are always being looked down on, except by Andy’s family. “But Mother, remembering the potted rose tree, always had a friendly word and a smile for the young Duvitches when she saw them and a bone for Kasimar when he found courage to venture across the road” (Page 5). This is truly a great example of being excepted. Lastly,

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