Thursday, May 15, 2008

An American dream

What is the American dream? Some believe that this dream is just a way to make people work harder knowing that they wont get anywhere. The American dream is different in every race, in every culture, and in every age difference. But for George and Lennie their American dream was simple, a house on a farm. Where they would eat off the fat of the lands, have a stove and Lennie’s was to tend to the rabbit’s.

Their American dream was to have a farm well my American dream is to have a house with about five rooms and two baths. It’s to live in a place where there isn’t many killing so when I grow up and have kids it will be ok, ok for them to walk down the street. For me to have a job where I get paid a good amount to take care of my family. I would like to do this with someone or without someone. My American dream is different from everyone else’s is different because I am different.

In the book there was a different dream, Curley’s wife’s. Her dream was to become an actress. Her dream was one you had to work for but she never did. She just let men use her for what she had and what they used to get her was her dream. She was so gullible that she would fall for what any guy said. They used her dream to use her for on thing, sex. Her dream wasn’t as simple as everyone’s that you would meet it was a dreamed that people think upon but never do because they thought it was too farfetched.

Some people didn’t have an American dream of their own. Maybe they thought that if they wanted for nothing then if it didn’t happened they wouldn’t be disappointed. Well I don’t know if that’s what Slim thought but he never had a dream, or at least he never talked about it. He was like the leader in the male group, whatever he said goes. If he was like the leader then I guess he did dream something with leadership in it. I think maybe he just never tried to dream maybe he just never thought he could persue it.

In conclusion everyone has an American dream but you may not know what it is. An American dream is a wish, a hope, a thought you could maybe get something out of life. Maybe its something to wake up for each day. Its powerful and it will be the same for everyone because everyone is different, in a American dream.

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