HLM16.3 Castrejon, Maria Second Semester Porfolio tie it up. | Page 25

And now, it’s gone. Our freedom has been replaced by silence, and our passions have been muted by fear. What I used to call an incoherent and unjust social hierarchy has returned favoring less that sixteen percent of the population. I fought for rights, for justice! How can this been forgotten? How can it all be lost?

My people are scared, they are afraid of asking questions the tyrants don’t want to answer. They are afraid to fight for freedom of press, for knowledge. They are afraid to ask for what they deserve. They are afraid of being silenced, even though they already don’t have a voice.