The Censors Martin Luther King Jr Analysis

Freedom Collection 2 The idea of freedom can be seen in Collection 2 of our textbook. Freedom can be seen in the speech, “I Have A Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr, when he was speaking out to everyone about his dream to have the same rights as white men. A lack of freedom can be seen throughout the short story, “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela, when Juan discusses about how every letter is carefully read, which is an invasion of privacy. “Reading Lolita In Tehran” by Azar Nafisi also showed a lack of freedom, when the author discusses the lack of rights that women had to put up with.
In King’s speech, “I have A Dream,” the main topic is freedom. In paragraph 16 of his speech, he was saying that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King Jr. was saying that all men were created equal, no
matter what skin color, race, gender or religion. This is true, because black men did not have the rights that white men had, just because their skin pigment looked different. He also was saying to let freedom ring in paragraph 20. When he was saying to let freedom ring, he probably means to spread freedom around. It is important, because he wants freedom to spread to other areas, where there is a lack of freedom, or no freedom at all. The short story, “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela’s main topic is a lack of freedom.
In the second paragraph, the author states, “... all this time the freedom, maybe even the life, of both sender and receiver is in jeopardy.” If Juan writes something in the letter to Mariana that looks like some kind of murder code to the government, both the receiver and sender could either end up in prison, or execution. This is true, because if someone puts something that sounds threatening to the government, in that letter, both the receiver and sender could get into really big trouble. Another evidence of a lack of freedom in paragraph 2, it says, “He knows that all letters pass from hand to hand and go through all sorts of tests in the huge censorship offices and that, in the end, very few continue on their way.” Juan fears that, if he puts something in his letter that can be in there or is missing something in the letter he had wrote to Mariana, his letter might not ever get to her, and he wouldn’t know. It is important, because if someone writes or puts something in a letter that they shouldn’t have wrote or put, their letter will never get to the person they wanted to send it
to.
“Reading Lolita In Tehran” by Azar Nafisi is the second example of a memoir discussing about a lack of freedom. On paragraph 2, the author was discussing about the militia, who patrol the streets and are known as the Blood of God, “They patrol the streets to make sure that women like Sanaz wear their veils properly, do not wear makeup, do not walk in public with men who are not their fathers, brothers or husbands.” In Iran, women are forced to wear veils everyday and had to sit in the back of a bus, segregated from the men. This is important, because it shows that women have very little rights and freedom. On paragraph 5, the author was discussing about punishment for those who had disobeyed the rules, “In the course of nearly two decades, the streets have been turned into a war zone, where young women who disobey the rules are hurled into patrol cars, taken to jail, flogged, fined, forced to wash the toilets and humiliated, and as soon as they leave, they go back and do the same thing.” The militia probably do this to protect women from men, but how are they protecting them, if they are just hurting them and making the look like fools, whenever they disobey the rules? This is important, because it also shows that women don’t get to have the same respect and treatment that men got.