PRISONER THROUGHOUT LIFE

In many ways possible, people can be prisoners of their own life “locked” through the system of oppression by society. Not by choice, but by force. Many people are “Forced” to be locked up by many social factors that contribute to their lives which cannot be avoided such as disadvantages and attributes. Other reasons such as norms created by those who are dominate and powerful in society. There are laws that rule and regulate certain groups of people that deprive them from becoming successful or exceeding further in life, moreover equality and justice. South Africa’s history of Apartheid details many aspects of “in-carceration”, yet Incarcerated through body, mind, and soul as a human being. Black Africans were mainly imprisoned because of racial markers that bleed through the minds of the white colonizers who came to a land and took something that was not theirs and called it their own. Nelson Mandela was “in-carcerated” and taken to Robben Island our tour guide, Thabo lived “in-carcerated” as a former military soldier, and how a nation as a whole country is imprisoned by the effects are examples that exemplifies in-carceration- internally and externally.
These are few examples of how one or a whole can suffer from implications that are placed on the lives of people. This discriminates and humiliates the rights and dignity of people who has done nothing but try to establish relationships among the uncommon groups of people. In this case, the others who came over to the country and violated and forced burdens on the natives “stole” their indigenous land and gained total control over the nation. This symbolizes who is “free” and who is “in-carcerated”. The significance of this representation distinctly shows how South Africa’s history of Apart-heid reflects the present as well as our future. This is shown from many events that has taken place throughout history and still occurs in its peculiar ways. Throughout Nelson Mandela’s life, his humanity and “freedom” has been in-carcerated. His life essentially was forced to be locked up in many ways, but in this aspect with the law physically. Thabo, the former solider suffers mental –incarceration because of the battles that he lived in wars fighting for his humanity, yet now to “recover” events from a different mind frame. There are many ways to experience “in-carceration” meaning that an oppressed individual or a group of people are affected and not only them, but it affects society in general. Particularly that oppressed group of people’s community. The connection through the different experiences relates back to the same crisis because of the commonalities of the struggle.
It is the nation’s creation of injustice and differentiating people that makes the experiences of those who go through difficult situations the lives as the oppressed. The transformation of experiences that the Africans have overcome, shows through varies forms of endurance slightly in particular ways that does not require physical will power always. It also takes the oppressed individual to exert themselves in other ways grasping the notion that the nation is against them. This symbolism of strength is displayed through struggles and tragedies tolerated. Moreover, how it takes strength to “revolutionize” a nation as an “in-carcerated” oppressed person in order to defeat the system of oppression.
The connection of being a prisoner of one’s life “in-carcerated” means the accomplishments that are rewarded in the end. The challenge before the victory and South Africa as a nation as represented the prime example of defeat through strength and tolerance. Especially Black Africans in this situation, along with the other oppressed groups and a meager portion of the support from whites. This created a strong sense of emergency throughout the history of South Africa. Just like in the South Africa, the United States experienced similar events relating to the suffering and in-carceration” through mind, body and soul. It is a process that one cannot endure alone without the cooperation and support of the authority in power.
To be free is better than beyond satisfaction. To practice behavior and ways of thinking about what it means to be free is through body, soul, and mind to freely to as one please without judgment from a society is possible through common goals and understanding to want better from a nation. But the process is the challenge that makes it seem impossible
“We want Robben Island to reflect the triumph of freedom and human dignity over oppression and humiliation”-Ahmed Kathrada: Prisoner 468/34