We are caged-birds, aren’t we?

       When we see a caged bird, what on our mind is a bird with a beautiful chirp, beautiful fur, and high-prices. It generally represents beauty. However, when we see a caged- bird in different perception in the context of our social life. It can represent a poor society in which always being restrained. A bird that can see the beauty of nature but they cannot do anything. They just fly from side to side in a cage. As we live right now, we can see others with their prosperity, while we are still in poverty. It is similar with what happened in Protes by Putu Wijaya, “Burung hidup dalam sangkar, kita hidup dalam tembok.” We cannot live as that bad. A cage is like a big wall. We have to destroy all of those walls in order to build a beautiful castle instead. We have to open our eyes that we can also get our prosperity.

        An opened-eye can drive us into a real freedom. As we have had our independence, 69 years ago but we have not got the essence of that independence. We are still far from freedom; freedom of stupidity and freedom of poverty. Buy opening our eyes; we can reach our real freedom, real happiness. It can be done if we as society unite with the ruler to break that limitation.

      At last, every element, the ruler and the society have to have a similar perception about the concept of a caged-bird in which represents a real beauty.

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Name : Ibnu Aziz                                                   

NIM  : 2211412004

English literature 1

          I want to tell you about a singer who cames from Banjarnegara whose name is Abid Ghoffar Bin Aboe Ja’far or the famous name is Ebiet. G. Ade. He was the youngest of six children whose father is a civil servant. Ebiet’s name he got from the English language course at that time whose teachers were foreigners, may be they said A to be E. After that his friends have been calling him “Ebiet” till now. Ebiet used to often gather with yogyakarta’s young artists that makes him motivated to produce quality works. He likes writing poetry which the theme is about nature and sometimes about religious. Then, he realizes it to be a good song whom I always sing when I was in confusion. I very like listening to Ebiet’s song which the title is “Untuk Kita Renun”. This song tells us that we must always introspection ourselves so that will make us to become a better people.

There are many more Ebiet’s songs that give us morals value about life.

I think that’s all about Ebiet. G. Ade whose works are very wonderful.