In recent discussions of freedom, a frequent question asked is this, “what is the meaning of freedom?” It can be said that freedom is defined by different people as different . That being said, depending on a person's situation, their own meaning for freedom will change accordingly. The individual in search of freedom must realize what the definition of freedom means to himself , and make sacrifices correspondingly. In order to understand why one’s goal of personal freedom is one thing, several things must be taken into account. Depicted in “A Wall of Fire Rising,”by Edwidge Danticat and “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Flannery O’Connor, the readers have been provided with all of the answers when asked the question, “what does
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Guy and his family live with the constant struggle of survival because of where they live, which is a small shack in a poor countryside of Haiti. By reading between the lines, it is able to infer that freedom to a lower class Haitian family is linked to the want for basic human rights. A real life situation which is similarly to Guy’s situation are those lives of innocent muslims and other minority religions living in Iraq. Like Guy, currently, Iraq’s own people are being executed, displaced from their own homes, and struggling to survive harsh conditions while they are in their own country. Freedom to these people is just surviving the day and hoping for tomorrow just because like Guy, they live in a place and time where they do not know if they will survive the night.Differently from this is the setting that Connie is placed in depicted in “Where are you going, Where have you been.” Connie is a young teen who’s freedom can be assumed by looking to the temporal and spatial setting of the story. Hints have been placed in the throughout the story and from these it is possible to draw some sort of conclusion about what personal freedom means to her. By reading in between the lines and also doing background research on the story, what is clear is that the temporal setting is about the late 1950’s- early 1960’se and the spatial setting is the United …show more content…
A clean cut difference between Guy and Connie is their age difference. It can be agreed by almost anyone that the younger a person is, the less experience they have had with the life and the less situations they have come into contact with. Connie is a teenage girl, just like any other teen girl, she is focused more on her outer appearance and trying to impress boys, than the problems of the real world. It is not because she is self centered, but because she is not old enough to have been faced with the situations an older person might have been through. She is just being who she is, a child who is not aware of the worries that come with life and becoming an adult. While Guy is an older man who has gone through more years and has the responsibilities of an adult and knows how scary life can be because he has had time to see it happen. This being said, while a younger person such as Connie might view freedom as being able to go to the movies with her friends, the older people with more years of experiencing life like Guy has greater responsibilities that have come with his age, and their idea of freedom might be not having to worry about putting food on the table for his family, or keeping them
Guy and his family live with the constant struggle of survival because of where they live, which is a small shack in a poor countryside of Haiti. By reading between the lines, it is able to infer that freedom to a lower class Haitian family is linked to the want for basic human rights. A real life situation which is similarly to Guy’s situation are those lives of innocent muslims and other minority religions living in Iraq. Like Guy, currently, Iraq’s own people are being executed, displaced from their own homes, and struggling to survive harsh conditions while they are in their own country. Freedom to these people is just surviving the day and hoping for tomorrow just because like Guy, they live in a place and time where they do not know if they will survive the night.Differently from this is the setting that Connie is placed in depicted in “Where are you going, Where have you been.” Connie is a young teen who’s freedom can be assumed by looking to the temporal and spatial setting of the story. Hints have been placed in the throughout the story and from these it is possible to draw some sort of conclusion about what personal freedom means to her. By reading in between the lines and also doing background research on the story, what is clear is that the temporal setting is about the late 1950’s- early 1960’se and the spatial setting is the United …show more content…
A clean cut difference between Guy and Connie is their age difference. It can be agreed by almost anyone that the younger a person is, the less experience they have had with the life and the less situations they have come into contact with. Connie is a teenage girl, just like any other teen girl, she is focused more on her outer appearance and trying to impress boys, than the problems of the real world. It is not because she is self centered, but because she is not old enough to have been faced with the situations an older person might have been through. She is just being who she is, a child who is not aware of the worries that come with life and becoming an adult. While Guy is an older man who has gone through more years and has the responsibilities of an adult and knows how scary life can be because he has had time to see it happen. This being said, while a younger person such as Connie might view freedom as being able to go to the movies with her friends, the older people with more years of experiencing life like Guy has greater responsibilities that have come with his age, and their idea of freedom might be not having to worry about putting food on the table for his family, or keeping them