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Comparing The Worlds Reward And Caged Bird

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The text “The Worlds Reward”and“Caged Bird”Both have the theme as spiritual freedom is possible even if the midst of physical enslavement. They believe if they can't have physical freedom then they can believe that they have spiritual freedom.

In both of the text they tell how they want physical freedom,But they can only get spiritual freedom. In the text “Caged Bird”it tells that the bird that is free has freedom ,But the bird in the cage only has spiritual freedom. According to the text of the free bird,”A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky.” This evidence shows that the free bird is free and can do whatever he wants without anyone telling them anything. According to the text of the caged bird,”but a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bar of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.” This evidence shows that if you are being put in something and can't do whatever you want the you can only think about being free or having …show more content…

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