If freedom could speak, what would it say? What advice would it offer to America, this once vibrant envy of the world that has succumbed to spiritual, moral, and political decay to the point that liberty itself now hangs in the balance? In Returning to Egypt , freedom IS given a voice through a character rightly named Freedom who challenges America to question whether history would applaud her NEW direction as a path that leads to prosperity, or warn that it is enticing her .