You Can't Buy Freedom

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78). The author, in this quote, is stating how he managed to keep his hotel open while mass murders were taking place. The quote proves that even with the situations happening in your surroundings, you can stay sane and try to keep on with your regular lifestyle. It is an example that freedom must be fought for. Rusesabagina fought against the genocide and still managed to protect himself and nearly 2,000 others. The author included this quote as a way to give others a wake up call. He is saying to wake up and realize that freedom is like an online 30 day free trial, but without the free part. He is using a strong tone in order for the reader the realize that freedom isn’t free, it’s the exact opposite.

Freedom doesn’t exist in the eyes of the fearful. In the novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini brings together a mix of emotions and shows how a young girl grow to know no freedom. Mariam was just a young lady when she was forced to grow up and never experienced what freedom felt like. Prior to this quote, Mariam had just been told that she is going to be marrying a man three-times her age, Rasheed. She doesn’t want to believe it, but as her father’s three wives are sitting there talking to her all about Rasheed, she feels almost dead. Mariam said, “‘I don’t want to,’ she looked at Jalil, ‘I don’t want this. Don’t make me,” (Hosseini 47) In this quote Mariam is saying to her father that she does not want to marry Rasheed. She is pleading for Jalil to not make her. This quote proves that women in the Middle East struggle to find freedom. They are forced into things, like marriage. Without this freedom, they can’t make decisions or speak their minds. This quote is an example of how freedom is not given, it must be demanded. The author included this quote as a way to show the struggle of freedom for women. He used this quote in order to gain knowledge about the topic. Prior to this quote, Rasheed and Mariam were eating dinner. Rasheed also offers to show Mariam around Kabul the next day. Rasheed said, “These women come uncovered, they talk to me directly, they look me in the eyes without shame… They don’t see that they’re spoiling their own hang and namoos, their honor and pride,” (Hosseini 70). In this quote, Rasheed is telling Mariam women come and talk to him and basically flirt with him. The quote proves that women are treated with a lack of respect due the the lack of freedom. Men feel that they are superior to women. It shows that women don’t have much support with their ideas. The author included this quote as a way to display the mistreatment of women in Middle East. Rasheed is explaining a women’s way of being kind as a way of flirting and cheating on their husband. If women doing simple gestures, such as shaking hands, would be considered flirting? It shows that women had no freedom.

Freedom is not given, it is demanded. People risk their lives and will fight against humanity just to receive freedom. It’s now evident that people who don’t fight for freedom, will be the one’s who end up losing.