39 Steps is a book that
highlights the danger that runs the lives of researchers and journalists when
they investigate the mafia that is presented in politics and society. Although
I did not like the book, I can emphasize the importance of respecting the
rights of human beings regardless of race or profession, such as the right to
life and freedom of expression.
This book talks about the life
of a character who by chance of life is involved in a problem of the political
mafia for trying to help a friend who was carrying out an investigation against
the Germans and when he is killed his life is in danger what must flee in
search of his safety but continues with the mission that his fallen companion
was carrying out, following the clues that he had written in his notebook and
running the same danger that his companion ran before being killed.
First, the right to free
expression is violated because the characters who have the information about
the Germans must be hidden because they have a threat of death and must flee
leaving everything behind to survive, in society and in journalism is always
violated the right to free expression, as the politicians or the rich people of
each place manage the information in their favor so as not to be arrested or
popularized, they also have the possibility of manipulating, hiring and bribing
many people to keep them quiet let it be the rumors or the truthful information
about the atrocious acts that you have committed.
Second, the right to life is
violated because the investigator is cruelly murdered and his friend must flee
to keep his life safe because he also receives a death threat. Not only have
important information about the influential people of society violates the
right to life, but have a difference in skin color or race, or be from another
country or have another culture, as reflected in the book.
From my point of view, the
book 39 steps can be an invitation to reflect as a society towards the
importance of respecting the differences of race and opinion regardless of who
has money and who does not, in addition each person is free to decide which
profession wants to carry out in your life without having to think if your life
is in danger. For example, in Colombia, the right to free expression and life
is violated every day because independent journalists are threatened or killed
when they investigate situations related to the corruption of the country.