explain freedom from oppression as it applies to the book: I Am David.

David's journey, from beginning to end, is a manifestation and/or enacting of his desire to be free from anything that keeps him from being everything he is, everything he can be, and everything he wants to be. He leaves the camp because he doesn't want to be oppressed by the people who run it, by their rules, or the cruelty-defined ideology behind those rules. He leaves the towns where he begins to become comfortable as soon as he begins to feel oppressed by what he believes to be the similar attitudes of people he had thought or hoped were friends and allies. He makes a point of fighting against oppression-by-preconception as shown by the attitudes of the female American tourist, and the oppression-by-suspicion shown by Maria's mother, Elsa. He is also suspicious of the oppression represented, for him, by Elsa and Giovanni's house, eventually equating Elsa's suspicions with that oppression and fleeing for what he believes to be the open freeness of Denmark. Finally, he finds an ally in the struggle against the oppression of the farmer in King the dog, who also gives his life so that David does not have to return to the life of oppression threatened by the possible encounter with "them." David's struggle to obtain freedom and then to remain free from all these oppressions is fueled by his determination to live by a pair of basic tenets taught to him in the concentration camp by Johannes, both of which serve as secondary themes.