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Free people make rules
Scotty 2022-03-23 09:01:56
When I was young, I felt very unfree. I was always under the control of adults. I couldn’t run around. I longed to grow up and get rid of these constraints. There are new rules, but the heart that longs for freedom cannot be locked, and no one thinks those rules are worth obeying, building your own cider house, doing what you love, chasing childhood dreams, feeling that the world is big and nothing impossible. The rules have become waste paper, and life is left to us, to live, to make mistakes, to fall, to win, and to create new life in life.
Extended Reading
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[Homer reads the actual Cider House Rules to the illiterate workers]
Peaches: What do they think, go up to the roof to sleep? They must think we're crazy. They think we're dumb niggers, so we need some dumb rules, is what they think.
Rose Rose: That's it? It don't mean nothin' at all. And all this time I been wonderin' about 'em.
Arthur Rose: They outrageous, them rules. Who live in this cider house? Who grindin' up those apples, pressin' that cider, cleanin' up all this mess? Who just plain live here, just breathin' in that vinegar? Well, someone who don't live here made those rules. Those rules ain't for us. We are supposed to make our own rules. And we do. Every single day.
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Homer Wells: I'm not a doctor. I haven't been to medical school; I haven't even been to high school.