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Analysis Of Stealing Freedom By Elisa Carbone

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Does one's happiness depend on being with friends and family? This question is answered in the novel titled Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone through the main character, Ann, who is a slave. She was living happily with her family in a town called Unity. However, perhaps she is not completely happy, she is still treated as a slave. Then her Uncle and Aunt ran away to Canada, and the rest of her family are sold away. Ann moves to Rockville with her Master, Charles, and has to steal her freedom since her master refuses to sell her. The theme the amount of friends and family someone is with, makes them happier and more successful is developed over the course of the novel.
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After Ann moves to Rockville and is taken away from her family, “Ann moved through her days as if she were dragging a sack of rocks with each step. There was no rhythm now, nothing to ‘look out, look out, look out’ for. All the worst had happened” (Carbone 81). Ann goes through her days with no purpose after she moves to Rockville, which is described as the worst thing that could have happened. This shows she has no happiness because sad people are sluggish and people who think the worst has happened to them are usually sad or depressed. Since Ann has no happiness when she moves to Rockville, it shows she has no happiness without friends and family, because in Rockville Ann is without her friends and family. As previously stated, Ann moves to Rockville and has no friends or family, except for Hannah and David (her cousins). To bring her joy, she goes to a graveyard and she “lowered herself to the ground and stretched out on her back with the top of her head against the tombstone” (Carbone 85). In other words, Ann goes to a graveyard and lies down on top of a grave. Since Ann lays down on top of a grave to bring her joy, it shows she wishes to be dead. Because Ann wants to die after she moves to Rockville and is isolated from her friends and family, it shows she has no happiness and is depressed. Therefore supporting the claim when she is completely isolated from her friends and family, it takes away all of her happiness and she falls into

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