VOICE OF FREEDOM

CHAPTER 9

 

PARAGRAPH 1: She doubted that they are Christians since they go against the will of God. A good Christian treats people with kindness and dignity. She was treated as a slave, and her working conditions in the factory were poor.  According to her, they were intimidated into silence by their masters, and they were poorly treated and oppressed.  She questioned the sincerity of the Christian beliefs of the factory owners because they never cared about the well-being and intellects of the people and never did they treat them with kindness. Slaves were forced to work in return to get food to eat (p.167). The factory owners forced the people to work even on the Sabbath day, and if they do not obey the rules they will lose their job.

PARAGRAPH 2:  The roles of women who moved to the west were changed entirely. They were forced by their masters to work the same jobs as a men. During this time, the men suffered together with their women and children (p.171). She complained of living without a house during the winter season. In the story there is a woman who talked about asking to be helped with steamship and her wish was not granted.   She said she could not imagine being a mother of two young children staying in the cold wilderness waiting for transportation that never arrived. They experienced severe situations while in the west, and the women were left behind with severe problems.

PARAGRAPH 3:  She complained about her being frontier because she used to carry her young infants throughout the journey. In the wilderness, she could not sleep because she feared that they might be attacked by wild beasts (p.172). She said that women and children had to deal with killer diseases such as seasickness and the roads were terrible, and they were obligated to wait for several days for a boat. She complained about cooking their meals outside the house since there was no fire in their home and there was great wind which would blow their clothes on fire. Mrs. Noble liked Michigan because it had better location compared to New York.

PARAGRAPH 4: He meant that people feel empty in their lives, and they want to fill it with wealthy and possession forgetting that these things are not the key to success, and they may end up damaging more than they may help.  To him, simple life is the key to happiness. He meant that people have no free time to enjoy lives. Each day people are always working hard like machine in order to get daily bread and expensive things which are unaffordable.  They have no free time to enjoy life, and they lived in fear, and they lacked confidence in them and that they work hard for expensive things they cannot afford. The lives of people are cheapened by the desire to succeed and gain wealthy quickly (p.179).  He stated that meeting the basic needs is easy and simple to get. People are not contented with what they have, and in the pursuit of wanting to become rich they end up being miserable. This will cause depression and self-doubt.  For instance, he spends only $28 to build his house while other fellow men spend $ 800 to build their house (p.182).  According to him, these men will take approximately 15 years to repay the money. 

 

Work Cited

Chapter 9:  voice of freedom N.D. Pp. (165-182)