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In the two short stories, The Free Radio and Everything Rises Must Converge, the main characters of each(prenominal) yarn have to make many important decisions/choices. The choices that are do change how new(prenominal) characters see the main character as strong as how they react to them.In the short story, The Free Radio, by Salman Rushdie, mob has many choices to make throughout the story. Ram who could have had anything in the human race he wanted made many poor choices. Ram was the cutest quat in the town he had everything going for him. Then he met the widow woman and her five children, and he also started hanging with the youth armbands, these people antecede to the downf every(prenominal) of Ram. The radio represented a way for Ram to pretermit reality and when Ram didnt get it he had to deal with all the negative choices he made. This is what hurt Ram because he had made so many negative choices in throughout the story. The theme of this story is to be happy in wh atever you do and if your not you can ever move to a new town and start over standardised Ram did.In the short story, Everything That Rises Must Converge, by Flanery OConnor, Julian learns there are more people in this world other than himself. The way he learns this is by taking his over weight fetch every Wednesday night to the Y so she could exercise. Julians catch is scared to go by herself because her town has become segregated. In the story there is an expensive hat that is wore by Julians niggle. The mother was skeptical to wear it because she thought it was funny looking, but she wore it anyway. While on the bus to the Y a colored lady came on with a similar hat as Julians mothers. When Julian precept this he began to make fun of his mother because she had the same hat as a colored person.