The Theme Of Freedom In John Webster's 'The Promise Land'

According to Webster, freedom is the quality or state of being free. Webster also defines freedom as a political right. If freedom really is a political right, then why is freedom taken away from millions of people. Freedom isn’t a right. People earn their own sense of freedom. After reading multiple sections in Connections I have come to realize that freedom isn’t free. I can define freedom as having a family that there until the end, having a God to praise and get us through all of our hardships, being strong, feeling safe wherever you are, being able to get an education, and never giving up hope. In “The Promise Land” the author mentions how her living in America is better than her previous country, Russia. She talks about how they now have better homes, better furniture, the skies are a beautiful blue, there are many friendly people, and how everything in America are free (Lights, Music, and Education). This author did not just get to America and have all these things handed to her, her father worked hard for his family is have this taste of freedom. Since freedom is not free what did they sacrifice for their freedom? They sacrifice their names and their looks, their European costumes because they were not accepted into America as immigrants they stood out from everyone else. If …show more content…
To sum up what the author says he is saying that us, Americans take everything for granted. We aren’t emotionally attached to each other besides our family. We don’t have good relationships and we can’t trust each other. All these immigrants come to America to be accepted but how can we accept them if we can’t accept each other. We need to make a change in America we need to accept everyone for who they are and not make them changed. If this could happen then and only then would everyone truly be