The Idea Of Freedom In David Unger's The Censor

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The idea of freedom can be seen throughout collection 2 in our text book. The short story The Censors by David Unger has a theme of freedom. The idea of freedom can be seen in the graphic novel Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi. The graphic novel The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi also talks about freedom.
The short story The Censors by David Unger shows a theme of freedom. Freedom is shown when Juan was trying to save Mariana. The importance of this is when Juan said something about the government in a letter he had to get a job at a censorship office in order to save himself and Mariana. Juan got so caught up and brainwashed by the government that he got himself killed, because he no longer had a mind of his own just did what

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