Freedom is a basic right to be enjoyed by all the peoples of the world. Elaborate Nelson Mandela’s thoughts on freedom in all stages of his life.
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Answers
As a boy, Mandela enjoyed many of freedom. He was not restricted to go anywhere. He used to run freely in the fields and to swim in the stream in his village. For him, freedom at this time was restricted to the freedom of his own. As a student, he wanted freedom only for himself. He wanted the freedom to study, stay away at the night and to have the freedom to go anywhere.
The definition of courage for Mandela was to win and attain victory over fear. For him, the absence of fear was not the meaning of being courageous. He considered men to be brave when they had the courage to conquer fear. He does not wanted a condition in the society where the men would be fearless.
Answer:
Three stages of his life:
1. Boyhood
2. Student
3. Young man in Johannesburg
Explanation:
As a boy Nelson Mandela believed that as long as long as he obeyed his father and the customs of the tribe, he was not troubled by the laws of man and God, he was free to run in the field near his mother’s hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through his village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride th broads backs of slow-moving bulls.
This opinion of freedom changed when he learned that his boyhood freedom was an illusion. As a student, he wanted freedom only for himself, the transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what he pleased and go where he chose. Later as a young man he yearned for the basic and honorable freedom of achieving his potential, of earning his keep, of marrying and having a family- the freedom not to be obstructed in a lawful life. He slowly began to realize that the chains on anyone of his people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all his people were the chains on him.