Escape

In the videos Escape and Going Down In History, we see many different ways one can escape what they are dealing with and going through in life. In Philadelphia, we meet troubled teens who are able to get away and escape to a horse stable where they can pick a horse and ride freely through the city and get away from daily problems. One boy described it as, "Instead of him watching people, people see him on the horse and watch him." Then we meet Mike, who has been disabled his whole life and had always been taken care of by his mother. He had finally had enough and set out for an assistant to get away from his mom. Although he wasn't able to physically get up and get away from his mother, he found other ways of escaping that. He painted his nails, wore black and even got a girlfriend which took up more time away from his mother. In other stories, we saw two inmates physically escape out of jail. Although it wasn't a figurative way of escaping, they did so creatively. The two wound together a 3 mile long ladder out of dental floss in hopes of getting out of jail successfully. From the video, we also saw a man who created war scenes, based on how he felt about the situation. He had been through many hardships in his life but took it out on creating scenes where he got the revenge.
I believe these videos about escaping have to do with writing by it being another way of escaping. Like we saw in the videos, there are many ways to escape. People use writing as an outlet to escape the real life problems and to get out what they are really feeling.