Christy+Essay+Introduction+Draft

====Why are there so many lines joining a person to another in one's life? What do these connections depend on? A life is so complicated that just like there are thousands of lines. They are always around us, like our parents, friends, teachers, neighbors or even the stranger we meet everyday. They grow with us all the way. In the movie "Cry Freedom", directed by Richard Attenborough, we can see how unexpected that one's life can be! Steve Biko is a black anti-racist. He supports to overthrow the apartheid system, longing for a fair treatment between the white and the black. How can he make friend with a white person called Donald Woods? And the white would support and help him all the way against the long-lasting unwritten code? The power that links these persons together is language. No matter Biko is a "nigger" or not, language is the unique tool that can destroy the barrier lying between two strangers.====