The Strangers That Came To Town Essay

Freedom is your right to do and say what you wish without fear of prosecution. In his short story, “The Strangers that Came to Town”, Ambrose Flack is showing that true freedom is about being accepted. He shows this through characters in the story, social conditions, Though the actions of the Duvitches.
In “The Strangers that Came to Town”, the true freedom is about being accepted. He shows this through his characters and their interactions. The Duvitches were not accepted, causing the other people in town to not allow them the same freedoms as everyone else, such as not getting extended them same curacies. “The Duvitches however Mrs. kinsella very carefully did not insult. (a form of insult in itself) and never did she extend them credit” (Flack 5). The Duvitches did not get the same courtesies as the people who were accepted in the town. The people around town were rude to the Duvitches making them feel unwanted and not free to integrate themselves into the community. “After school they headed straight home, Never lingering on the playground” (Flack 4). The Duvitch children did not play with …show more content…
He shows this through social conditions. Social conditions such as unwelcome words are used in the story. The Duvitches are often the reciprocate of cruel words and comments from their neighbors. “They were considered unattractive physically. They were so meek!” (Flack 3). The Duvitches heard comments like these all over town making them unaccepted in town. The Duvitches were living in such an up incoming neighborhood the social conditions of it made them outcasts and therefore making them not accepted in the community. “The Duvitches were marked people. They were one struggling family in a prosperous community’’ (Flack 3). The Duvitches were not accepted because it was a social high-class community. He shows through social conditions that the true freedom is about being