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Does freedom exist anywhere in our society?

"The film immediately follows its credit sequence glorifying road travel with a brief dramatic episode emphasizing society's rejection of their alternative values and mobile lifestyle," (Laderman 69). Billy and Captain America go out in search of a freedom and an America that they cannot find in Los Angeles. They think that if they go out on the road they will be able to find the freedom they were lacking, they were sorely mistaken. Billy and Captain America found out that the only way that they could ever truely be free was to not have any contact with the rest of society. They were treated poorly when they were driving through town and ran into a parade, they were treated poorly when they were in the diner being heckled, and they were treated poorly when they were ultimately killed because of their appearance. Billy and Captain America have no idea how truely lucky they really are. They are white males growing up in a white, male-dominated society. They chose to be who they were. They chose to grow out their hair and do things that were not "normal". Women and people of different races could not choose to be outcasts, they were outcasts. They were treated poorly because society deemed them and continues to deem them inferior to their white, male counterparts. This is unfortuante but true and continues to be true to this day.

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