Essay On Crispin The Cross Of Lead

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The Book,"Crispin the Cross of Lead, by Avi is the first book of the series of Crispin books. It is about a child who's mom died and who doesn't know anything about himself. So he goes on a journey to find his true identity and finds some challenges along the way. He eventually finds a man who helps him find out his identity and a new important choice about freedom. This journey changed the way I thought about liberty and freedom because the boy had freedom of choice, he had the ability to bring freedom and he was a peasant and so know my Perception of freedom changed in the way that I now know that anyone can be a symbol of hope.

Crispin changed my perception in the way that he had the freedom of choice to be bears apprentice and to later become his friend. According to the book "Crispin: The Cross of Lead", Bear states," You
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On page 276, it states,"If you let the two of us- both him and me-leave Great Wexly, we'll not come back. You'll never see me again." This to me means that Crispin had freedom of speech to say that if he let's Crispin and Bear go then Crispin will never become king.

Crispin went through this challenging journey with only bear to help him and through this whole adventure I forgot he was a peasant because he did all this amazing adventure and he was just a peasant. According to page 275, it states,"Your Mother was nothing but a servant." This to me says that Crispins mother is a peasent and if hes parent was a peasant that would mean that Crispin is also a peasant.

In conclusion, to me this book changes the way that I see freedom in more than one way. The ways it changed it was to always have freedom of choice, and to have the freedom to choose to save your best friend, and that even a peasant has freedom. So this book, to me, was mostly about a peasant on his journey to

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