America has been restored to a realm of independence and freedom, and with this triumph, Andrew Durant has completed his life's work. However, Andrew Durant's life is not over; instead, it has been reset, not from a standpoint of time, but from one of opportunity. Andrew Durant and his fellow Americans are free to be Americans again, they are free to do as they please. They are no longer subservient to a tyrannic government and they no longer have to dissimulate their thoughts in fear of reprogramming. The only question that remains for Andrew Durant is what he will do next.
The omnipresent narrator voices this sentiment by saying, "The future was uncertain...It would be hard to begin again" (Caldwell, 341). Durant has been consumed by his cover identity, he has been doing what he believes he has to do, not what he necessarily wants to do. This notion resonates with my high school experience. In terms of academics, I have taken classes because I have felt like I had to take them in order to do something else, for me that was the opportunity to attend and study at a renowned university. Durant had to revive America's independence so that he could live in a country predicated on freedom with his family. But now that we have both reached our initial goals, we can begin to pursue our forgotten goals, and we can become who we want to be.
Without the burden of our preemptory goals, Andrew Durant and I will be faced with decisions that are based on our own intuition, not an ultimatum. The narrator alludes this when stating, "To make one's own decisions would require much courage, and much remembrance" (Caldwell, 341). I will soon be free to make my own decisions and it will be of paramount importance that I make these decisions with conviction, and discretion, for the impetus of these decisions will be of my own free choice. If something goes wrong I will not be able to divert the blame to some other cause, I must accept it. Courage will be needed for these decisions because they will not be able to be forgotten, regardless of where they take me.
The omnipresent narrator voices this sentiment by saying, "The future was uncertain...It would be hard to begin again" (Caldwell, 341). Durant has been consumed by his cover identity, he has been doing what he believes he has to do, not what he necessarily wants to do. This notion resonates with my high school experience. In terms of academics, I have taken classes because I have felt like I had to take them in order to do something else, for me that was the opportunity to attend and study at a renowned university. Durant had to revive America's independence so that he could live in a country predicated on freedom with his family. But now that we have both reached our initial goals, we can begin to pursue our forgotten goals, and we can become who we want to be.
Without the burden of our preemptory goals, Andrew Durant and I will be faced with decisions that are based on our own intuition, not an ultimatum. The narrator alludes this when stating, "To make one's own decisions would require much courage, and much remembrance" (Caldwell, 341). I will soon be free to make my own decisions and it will be of paramount importance that I make these decisions with conviction, and discretion, for the impetus of these decisions will be of my own free choice. If something goes wrong I will not be able to divert the blame to some other cause, I must accept it. Courage will be needed for these decisions because they will not be able to be forgotten, regardless of where they take me.