"The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" carefully and cunningly depicts English rule as a weak, fraudulent, imposing system that cripples individuality. Smith's acts of

Running in effect than is actually an escape for Smith. Smiths' comment on being able to run forever is symbolic, and it drives the point home embodying the notion that running is keeping distance from the law, out running the system so to speak. When Smith runs he is untouchable. He is in his own world away from the suffocating laws of England's juvenile detention policies and the world of imposed law. Smith isn't running from his problems or from his past, but instead he is running towards the answers to the questions that doctrine men's lives, answers on how to become free and independent.

recklessness cannot be seen as crude behavior, but rather as acts of freedom and non-conformity. Throughout the story Smith tries to find himself and grasp a better understanding of life and it's many questions by laughing at the law and running from it's re

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