Chipotle Free Choice

Your and your friends decide that they want to go out for a girls night out. Watch a movie, shop and go out to eat. As dinner time approaches you are left with the decision of choosing what place would be the best choice for you to eat; Chipotle or Olive Gardens. You weigh your options and contemplate finally deciding to go with Olive Gardens. Although this is a phenomenal choice and is quite appetizing. You still wonder if the decision you made was the right one. However, it was a decision you freely made, or was it ? What if somehow some unknown factor helped to influence the choice you made. Every aspect of your life affects your ability to exercise the free will you were given. Whether it be culture, language, religion, family or friends

Every choice he made was based on things his guards implemented in him from birth. He didn’t freely have the ability to do anything in the camp and the few things he did was still based on survival instincts. However, when Shin began to hear stories of the outside world and the freedom others had to make their own choices, even something as little as choosing their own meals, he began to fantasize of having those privileges as well; Thus motivating him to make his first free choice in his life: escaping. Shin knew the consequences for trying to escape because he witnessed his own mother and brother get executed for the attempt, even being the informant of the matter. However, it is natural for one to use that free will we all possess without always thinking of the after

Truman was adopted since birth by the corporation behind the show, and has lived all his life growing up inside this place he knows as home. All this, under the watchful eye of the show creator Christof and producers .Truman's whole life has been controlled by Christof during this show. The "death" of his father was staged to place a fear of the sea, his "best friend" is a paid actor who gets his lines from Christof through an earpiece, and his marriage to Meryl was arranged since college. However, Truman does in fact show many examples of his ability to have free will as he breaks away from the life which has been outlined for him. Even Christof acknowledges Truman’s ability to choose his destiny stating "If his was more than just a vague ambition, if he was absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him" (Truman Show). One example of Truman exercising free will is him falling in love with an extra during college, instead of Meryl. Even though she was fired from the show, and Truman ends up marrying Meryl, he still values Sylvia's memory and makes many efforts to find out where she