*What does freedom mean to you? Freedom can mean different things depending on the situation. Freedom is an important theme on Frederick Douglass's "Narrative Life" as well as my chosen books "Worst Case" by James Patterson and "The Diary of Anne Frank" by Anne Frank. All these books illustrate the theme of freedom in different ways, but all follow a theme of personal freedom. Freedom is not easily achieved for any of the characters in these three books.
* Michael Benette is the main character in "Worst Case". He is the lead detective on an on going serial killer case. Emily Parker is New York cities FBI abduction specialist, also Benettes partner. The case that they were given involves a serial killer who abducts innocent children of extremely wealthy families in New York city. It's their job to make sure that the children come back safe and hopefully alive.
* Benette and Parker relate to Douglass because they all had been robbed of their freedom. Benette and Parker had becomes slaves to the serial killer. This killer would leave no clues or ransoms. It was up to them to jump start the case. They worked day and night to make sure that the kids were free from the killer. All their time is taken away by the investigation. This puts a hold on their personal time, work became life for them, and the serial killer didn't make it easier for anyone.
*Work took over Douglass's life as well. He was never given a chance to have a personal life. It was taken away from him when he was born into slavery. He grew up on several plantations and worked in ship yards. He knew his mother was a slave and his father was a salve owner. Throughout this story about his life he informs the readers about all the hardships he had faced and all the horrible things he had seen. He would witness beatings and sometimes murder of a slave. He never learned to read and write till he was sent to a family to work, and Mrs. Auld had given him lessons till her husband forbid her to do so. Mr. Auld didn't think it was right for a slave to learn these things, their only job was to provide for the owners. After Douglass had left this family he had moved to another one, he slowly began to feel as if he had some sort of freedom. He was able to teach sunday school, and taught all the other slaves what he had learned. He then was not able to do this anymore and was sent back to his old owner. Here Douglass worked for a shipyard. He was able to save up money and escape to New York. The plantation owners were similar to the serial killer because they robbed freedom and lives as well. Douglass got lucky and escaped, unlike some of the children.
* The children were from wealthy families and they had no way to escape the killer. He had taken them away because he felt as though they didn't have a place in the world because they were born into wealth. So what he did was asked them all a series of questions and if they had answered them correctly then they were set free but if not they were killed. These questions were beyond impossible to answer. This was unfair and cruel to penalize someone because of what they were born into like Douglass and Anne Frank.
* Anne Frank has a remarkable story. This is about how she had been forced to hide from the Nazi's for two years because she was jewish. She like Douglass and the children were all penalized because of what they had been born into. She was given the chance to escape and finally was able to achieve the freedom she had deserved.
* Freedom is different for everyone. It allows you to be who you want. Douglass was given the chance to escape slavery and live his life, Anne Franks story is similar to Douglasses because she had been able to escape from the nazis and had gotten her chance to live a normal life. As for Parker and Benette they escaped the serial killer by catching him and saving the innocent lives of the children and saved their own as well by gaining their personal freedom back. They all had been stripped of their personal freedom and it was a long journey for them all to achieve being free, but just having their freedom changed their life's forever.