Category: American Dream

In the novel ‘Grapes of Wrath,’ Steinbeck attempts to depict the hard conditions in which ranchers like the Joads needed to endure during the Dust Bowl. All through the novel, he centers around the Joad family and their adventure to California. Steinbeck had blended aims that he is attempting to express, maybe his message in…

The contrast between the new rich and the old rich is a prominent theme in the novel and is reinforced by certain techniques throughout the novel. This theme, discussed in the Great Gatsby essays, takes a central role in the story, showcasing the differences between these two groups. Fitzgerald uses characterization to portray the contrast…

To many people the American Dream is the opportunity to achieve their dreams. For decades, society raise the concept of American Dream and people pass this idea down to the next generations with the effort to accomplish and live the American Dream. The American Dream has slowly drifted away into a dream than a reality…

In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, one topic his writing focuses on is an idyllic perception of the American Dream. The people of Holcomb are stereotypical small-town Americans of the 1950s. When the town is completely upended one night, by the murder of the upstanding Clutter family, it shows that the American…

Money and success are what the American Dream is all about and what people seek to find when coming to the United States. So what does it mean to be part of the upper class or the so-called one percent. According to the 2018 Global Wealth Report from Credit Suisse Research Institute, one needs a…

The American dream gives people something to strive for without knowing if it will prevail or break down. This is evident in the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and the play A raisin in the Sun. The ranchers from the novel and the Younger family from the play are perfect examples of…

The American Dream symbolizes prosperity, happiness, and even hope. However, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents the book and the American Dream from a different point of view. For many people in the book, it is just a fantasy of living in poverty hence the term rags to riches. The main character Gatsby losses cite of the…

The amazing story Of Mice and Men happened during the 1930s. Around that time it was very different from today. The race was a big important thing that gave whether a human had the chance to make cash. The 1930s were a major time where humans started questioning people in the American culture because of…

The Thing Around Your Neck is a short story in which Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the author, presents two characters, Akunna, the main character in the story and Akunnas boyfriend, also known as The boy in the story. Akunna wins the American visa lottery and gets a green card to go live in America. She is…

In Of Mice and Men, there are several plot events that lead to the destruction of people or things. Steinbeck uses this conflict or rising and falling action, to help tell the bigger story of George and Lennie and life as a migrant farmworker in the 1930s and 1940s. Through these plot events, the theme…