Mandela starts this passage off with "I was not born with a hunger to be free" (623 Mandela). He was not meaning the actual feeling of being hungry and wanting to eat. He is saying he was not born wanting freedom because he already thought he had freedom this quote is an example of connotation.

"A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity." (624 Mandela). This is him explaining his understanding of freedom. He wants all to be free, he does not want to become free just to make someone else not free. This is his perspective on the freedom he wants.

Nelson Mandela's purpose for writing this piece was to share his personal experience in the fight against apartheid in South Africa. He wanted to write down the struggle for freedom and equality and needed to inspire others to continue fighting with him for justice and natural human rights.

"There is clearly still racial division in schools," says Nowicki. She adds that schools with large proportions of Hispanic, Black and American Indian/Alaska Native students – minority groups with higher rates of poverty than white and Asian American students – are also increasing. "What that means is you have large portions of minority children not only attending essentially segregated schools, but schools that have less resources available to them." (Jackie Nowicki). Now of course you will not find something as segregated as back then but from this reading, I see that they are less segregated by race but more by poverty levels.