Symbolism In Chains

In the Book Chains, by Laurie Anderson, there is plenty of evidence showing domestic abuse towards Mrs. Lockton. When Isabel found out that Mrs. Lockton had sold Ruth, Isabel was furious, shouting at Mrs. Lockton and scolding her for what she did. The first time when Isabel rose up to yell, Mrs. Lockton replied,

The book that was read in class, Chains, had many ups and downs. There were many exciting parts in Chains, but something that caught my eye was the different lives slaves had and the ways they were treated in different places. This might have caught other people’s eyes as well. The places talked in the book were big plantations, small farms, and cities which there were slaves in every one of those places. Some people might be wondering, how could slaves live different lives, don’t they all have the same things to do. Well that is not the case in the book, Chains. In this three paragraph essay the reader will discover the different lifestyles slaves had in big plantations, small farms, and in cities.

Freedom and Liberty are explained in many ways and in “Chains” by Laurie Halse Anderson it is explained in the American Revolution by different types of people like Patriots, the rebels that are fighting against the king to become independent, the Loyalists that want to stay with the king of Great Britain, and the slaves. The slaves are working for both Patriots and Loyalists and they chose different sides but still have their own opinion like Isabel who is more on the Patriots side but still has here opinion on freedom. They all have their own interpretation of the words, “Freedom and Liberty” but they're all different. In the book Isabel is a slave with her sister Ruth, and is with a kind woman until she dies then she is sold to the

Freedom and liberty in the mind of Isabel are something

A time in this world where African Americans were forced to become a slave was a very rough time. Slaves were people who were owned, forced to work for people even if they didn't want to. They didn't have a choice if they wanted to be a slave or no. Just like Isabel, the main character, she was owned didn't want to become a slave but she was forced to, she wanted to have freedom like many other people had in this time. Isabel from the novel “Chains,” by Laurie Halse Anderson, was a really brave person, who did things she wasn't supposed to do.

The first point of view of “Freedom and Liberty”, are the Patriots. The Patriots had an important part in this book because the came here to land to rule the farmers. One quote from the book Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson, it stated “The British promised freedom to slaves but won't give it to the white rebels," (chapter 26 paragraph 34). This shows that Freedom to the Patriots, that it

Isabel definitely knows those “some.” Mr. Robert Finch and the Pastor, for example. When Isabel tells them that she’s free, Mr. Finch only gets annoyed with her. The pastor sides with him and stands by when she is carted away by Mr. Finch, and even suggests how to get more money for her and her sister. If Isabel was an indentured servant like Jenny, the pastor would have at least pressured Mr. Finch to search out the will and free her. As a black slave, Isabel gets no rights or benefit of the doubt.

Chains are symbolic of Slavery, Bondage, Brotherhood, Remembrance, duty, and the list goes on. its connected to marriage as a bond, its used in Christianity as a symbol of prayer and divine connection with God, and the Hindu's use it as a symbol of the chain of karma. In the film, Mad Max directed by George Miller the main protagonist of the film Max was a former police officer before the post-apocalypse world. Max seemed to always be chained up during the film.

Our world today is filled with unnecessary oppression. Slavery is one common form of human oppression, but there are numerous other forms as well. War, death, hunger, and sadness caused the elders in the society of The Giver to force each citizen to live extremely structured, controlled lives. That structure and control effected each person’s ability to live unique, private, and free lives. The elders in The Giver wanted all the citizens in the community to be undifferentiated for their own safety, so they greatly censored all citizens. Lack of freedom to pursue individual happiness is, indeed, a form of oppression not only faced by fictional book characters, but also by twenty-first century Americans. American society is changing so rapidly that we as independent Americans must decide whether safety, or freedom, is more important.

This undeniable reality of the racial constraints on the concept of equality naturally leads us to question whether the Revolution Era had a “truly revolutionary” effect on anyone except for the white man. When discussing the concept of equality in part with the Revolutionary Era, we should start with identifying the various demographics that were meant to be affected by this concept. Africans are arguably the most affected demographic by the revolutionary era. The most significant changes of where they sit on the societal totem pole happen in the northern colonies, as America a Narrative History states, after achieving independence all the states except Georgia stopped the trafficking of slaves; only for South Carolina to re-open their slave trade in 1803. However, we should also

In Western culture we are born with the right of autonomy. It is believed that this right can never be taken away from us. We are born into this privilege of liberty and are given opportunities to grow and make our own choices without being oppressed or discouraged for them. We are free, or so we think we are. In the book Slave My True Story by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis (2003), Mende a 12 year old girl, is stripped of her happiness, childhood and most of all, her freedom.

However in the novel, The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead, freedom is just a dream every African American character desires. Whether enslaved or free they must navigate the impossible choice between slavery or racism. The stigma of colored people create this idea that Ridgeway believes "If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now." (Whitehead) Similarly, any white person who feels sympathy for the enslaved is confronted with the fact that if they choose to assist enslaved people, they will likely be killed along with their families.

The United States is a immigrant country, which faces varieties of problems. The African American problem is one of the most serious one. Racial segregation is a deep-rooted social problem, which reflects in every field in the United States. For example, education, labor market and criminal justice system. In the aspect of education, most of black children were not permitted to enter the school, because the white children studied there. In the aspect of labor market, the black people 's average wages were lower than the whites. They did the manual work. In the aspect of criminal justice system, the blacks were easily in jail. Badly, their sentences were also more serious than the whites. In general, the blacks live in the bottom of the American society. Martin Luther King delivered the famous speech I Have a Dream, ' ' I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ' ' (1) However, it was difficult for African American to get the freedom. The 1776 Declaration of Independence announced that everyone are equal and freedom.But black slavery still occurred in the southern states of America. Then the Civil War broke out, African American kept struggling for land and political rights.

Injustice is a prevailing theme in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Tubman, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, Spider Woman 's Web by Susan Hazen-Hammond and Great Speeches by Native Americans by Bob Blaisdell; the diligence of several characters have made it possible for them to preserve and overcome injustices. America has not always been a land of the free for colored people; white settlers destroyed the meaning of freedom when they robbed the land from the indigenous people. Freedom was also destroyed when slaves in America were not treated as full human beings. Despite of many obstacles the oppressed faced, their thirst for freedom and determination helped them in reaching their goals.

And while Isabel wanted some kind of corporeal interaction with her mother, she did not receive it positively. She did not authorize a particular kind of intimacy either: molestation. When Isabel was an infant—vulnerable, unable to fight and protest—her mother violates her with objects. She remembers in a sort of dream sequence, "Beats me, or pinch me. Introduce my genitals which have been so many times deflowered by objects of ordinary household function—why do I scream when I see a wooden spoon? No one