A Freewheelin Time Analysis

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A Memoir of two young teenagers exploring what love represents, while entering the life of being a famous singer and musician is definitely a freewheeling time. As I began to read A Freewheelin’ Time, by Suze Rotolo it began to become interesting. These two young teenagers from Greenwich Village went through many hardships due to how much liberty they had and what they wanted to do with their lives. Suze Rotolo was a seventeen year old young lady when she met Bob Dylan, in 1961, at the age of 21. He became Suze Rotolo’s boyfriend in the early sixties; their relationship collapsed as he began to grow in fame.
Suze Rotolo, as a reckless activist, lived in the time of the Civil Rights Movement. Her father was a union man and her mother worked

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