Freedom is a prized value for a man. However, it was a rare gift for poor folks during the era of colonization. A man can be born as a slave but he can prefer to die as a free man. However, it was rarity. The story of Mack seems to be based on the similar lines. Mack and Esther are twins. They live in Huegh, a small village in Scotland. Their parents were slaves in a coal mine; they died of starvation when the coal mine shut down for some valid reasons. Mack and Esther are, too, slaves in a coal mine owned by Sir George Jammisson. Mack wishes to be a free man–he knows writing and reading otherwise miners are illiterate. So, he writes to a lawyer in London and gets a letter that says as per the rule he should be set free on his twenty-first birthday. He reads the letter in open, in a church, and provokes the Sir George Jammisson. Mack is the troublemaker, so Jammissons torture him brutally. However, he is a man of steely determination. One chilly night he swims across the ri...
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