The Impossibility

I Alondra think the American Dream isn't just one simple and everyone's same dream, it's where we all have our own dream that we feel with hard work we will achieve or reach our dreams but in reality we won't. It's not that it's 'impossible' but it's not easy and very few are able to reach or achieve it or even are able to have it become reality. I concluded to this idea because hearing my classmates and my teacher what they feel about the American Dream I too started thinking it's about wealth or "fitting in" or having it stay the same, not liking any change. But when we read Kenny I felt that it was about believing in others, believing there's good, honesty, and loyalty in everybody as long as we show the same. Even in the text it states,"He still believes in his heart that people are honest and good." This was his dream and he was so loyal to his company but he was wrong not everybody has honesty and good in them. His company mistreated, took advantaged of him, technically even abused him! After all his hard work and loyalty his dream was never proved true. Then I read Gatsby and one of the sentences said how he always seen the light from Daisy's house -the dock more specifically- then how,"that light had now vanished forever." He liked Daisy and the fact the light helped him know he was close to her and it now had vanished made it seem like they weren't even in the same place. Then there's those who were able to reach there dreams. So is it not impossible? No not exactly it's just we may have to sacrifice so much or we may reach it but it won't be what we wanted or isn't really reality. In the text 'Invisible Man' there's this black man who was a lawyer. He graduated from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, made a lot of money but for some reason just because he was black he was downgraded. He just wanted to understand,"why were people so set on excluding people like me." Here he is this very successful man and he worked in a club and wasn't treated right or equal, was always treated differently. He never knew why it was like this all he knew was no matter what he will never be able to actually live like he's a successful person and is like everybody else. He will always treated differently. And in the Chasing Red, White, and Blue this mans dream came true but he had to make a very big sacrifice and still wasn't able to get all he wanted. He was a professional boxer and he lost his eye from,"one too many fights." And it wasn't even in the city he wanted it in. He lost his eye, something I feel we all need and is very important and couldn't even get it in the place he lived and wanted. Was it really worth it? For myself I do not need to challenge this or investigate it because I've already seen this. What I want is to understand why we are like this? Why we have came top the point we can't live our dream? Succeed in it? Something I'm wondering from others is I know we all have different opinions and I may not have explained very well or be 100% accurate but don't you feel this is partially true?

American Dream

We have read multiple texts trying not exactly to find the answer to,'What is the American Dream?', but to pursue in the idea of what it is. Text after text I've had many ideas of what the 'American Dream' was but after my classmates said their ideas and after reading different texts, I always had a new idea of it. From race to race and class to money to fitting in. Now my idea of the 'American Dream' is that we feel if we work hard we will eventually get what we wanted to achieve but just one little thing can bring us down or our hard work isn't enough. I've researched articles instead of listing my evidence from the texts. And I've found a few articles all stating the fact that more than 50% Americans do not believe the 'American Dream' does exist or it never did. 'Is the American Dream dead?' also states that 59pc of Americans believe the 'American Dream' is impossible to achieve and two-thirds of respondents don't believe children would be better off than their parents generation. Is this where we came to? The fact that we work hard but for some reason doesn't pay off and many Americans know it and lose hope in their generation and the next generation.