Andrew Doetsch Post 3

The theme of the story I chose is that freedom is worth risking your life to attain. As we have read, Juan has had countless close encounters with death. He missed being spotted by the Cuban (Russian) gunboat. Unfourtunatly, his friends life was taken. He almost drowned during a hurricane. He was attacked by a ferociuos shark and barely escaped with his life, unlike his companion. He would have died of exposure, had he not been rescued by Alberto. He went through this tourture just to attain freedom, and that is evedence to my theme. As the first paragraph said: "Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven has bestowed upon men; no treasures the earth holds buried or the sea conceales can compare with it: for freedom, as for honor, life may and should be ventured."