Christy+Second+Essay+Introduction+Draft

==== Life is made up of many lines, joining one person to another. If you group people around the globe together and make a connection map among them, I am sure that the map must be extremely complicated with lots of intersections. However, what do these connections depend on? We can consider the movie “Cry Freedom” directed by Richard Attenborough in 1987 to see how unexpected that one’s life can be in this connection! It talks about Steve Biko, who is a black anti-racist, supports to overthrow the apartheid system in South Africa. This banned person has done a lot of illegal works to promote his idea in the black community, longing for a fair treatment between the white and the black. Due to the racism issue, how can he make friend with a white journalist Donald Woods? And Woods support and help him all the way against the long-lasting unwritten code? Woods as a journalist needs to search for truth to be posted on his newspaper. It is the power of written language that brings them together. Overall, the true power that links people from different races is language. Language can be expressed in the form of written words, body language as well as conversational one. Even for mute, they have sign language to communicate with each other. Although there are thousands of languages, including dialects, all of them are based on a set of rules to show their meanings. ====