Pride Of Baghdad Analysis

The quest for freedom is never ending in today’s society. People in the western world regularly strive towards having more individual rights for the people in their communities, however, there are other people in different corners of the world who are denied basic human rights as well as their very own freedom. Although these books portray freedom as desirable, the lure of freedom in both works is counteracted by the threats posed by the outside world.
Pride of Baghdad illustrated the yearning for safe freedom the characters constantly experience and their exploits during a troubled time. To begin with, the author first introduces Noor trying to set up a partnership with the antelopes in order to get their help with escaping their captivity.

Unlike Pride of Baghdad, Pyongyang fails to explicitly show the true feelings of those who are actually being deprived of freedom in their own country. Instead, the author and the western friends he makes are the only ones who are capable to freely express their feelings while the North Korean people depicted in this book fail to show their true feelings about the society they live in. The translators and coworkers of the author and protagonist are silent for most of the time and they appear to be deeply satisfied with their country and their society. For example, Delisle remarks that “they live in a state of constant paradox where truth is anything but constant (Delisle, 75).” Delisle refers to the fact that the citizens of North Korea are essentially quarantined inside their own country as the only ones allowed to travel are family men who are less likely to escape. The citizens appear to accept this rule because of the many lies they are fed by their government about the outside world. In the same page Delisle questions his companion about Paris and he only has negative things to say about a city that is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Furthermore, Delisle is later taken to visit the international friendship exhibition where he observes more of the lies the North Korean people are fed by their government about their fearless leader as well as other countries. Delisle claims that “the purpose of this grandiose display is to convince the masses that the entire planet is in awe of their adored Kim (Delisle, 102).” The whole exhibition is filled with what appear to be fake objects and planted newspaper articles about their leader and while Delisle is clearly amused by how obvious the propaganda is in the exhibit, the North Korean people in the tour are very much taken by the whole