The Hope of a DreamEssay Preview: The Hope of a DreamReport this essayThe Hope of a DreamThe American dream is sometimes thought of to be an idea of something unreachable, or thought of as a tangible reality that everyone can accomplish. This American dream is something that people so often go after and hope to find. To some it is the idea of material prosperity that people are after, or for others it goes farther than just money and possessions. People start of this “dream” in the hope of obtaining stability and comfort in their lives. However money is not the only factor that can quench this thirst that people have inside of them. Every person longs for stability, happiness, and to love and in return be loved. So, perhaps this “American dream” a want for money, or it is a hope for a better life for oneself.
In one of the novels that we read The Jungle, Jurgis and his family move to America hoping to live out this “American dream”(Sinclair chapters 1-2). Unfortunately for them it did not go as they planned at all. They had dreamed of freedom; of a chance to look about them and learn something; to be decent and clean, to see their child grow up to be strong. And now it was all gone. It would never be!” (Sinclair 163). all Jurgis and his family wanted was to be decent and clean; to have freedom, jobs, and opportunity (Sinclair 163). Yet, they find themselves in a serious of horrible events that were nothing of what they thought America would be like. Jurgis pushes through the challenges though with the hope that he might finally get what he came for. After he lost everything he persevered. Perhaps this is what the American dream is after all, hope. Perhaps its about hoping for more for you and working to get that.
Another Novel that we read was the great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The way that Gatsby went after Daisy with such a passion was captivating (Fitzgerald 112). Some people believe this love to be there “American dream”. To have someone who loves you enough to through extravagant parties every week just in hopes that maybe you would show up (Fitzgerald chapter 5). “Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.” (Fitzgerald 137-140) Gatsby is admirable. He did not let the world he grew up in affect the way he planned to live his life. Growing up in poverty to becoming widely rich is an astonishing task. Even though the way Gatsby may have earned his money might have been wrong, he is still respectable for persevering and getting what he wanted. However, in the end it seems like his riches were not worth anything after all. In the end he did not succeed in getting what he truly wanted, which was Daisy. “I thought of Gatsbys wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of the Daisys dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it” (Fitzgerald 180). Gatsby was a man who put everything he had into Daisy his dream, and just when he seemed so close, it all ended. What bothered me about this was that Daisy I feel didnt even have the nerve to show up at Gatsbys funeral. It was all of a sudden unimportant that Gatsby had become so rich, he had lost his life and he had lost his true dream; a life with Daisy.
The script that we had to read was death of a salesman. What is interesting about this novel is that it is more about a fathers hopes for his son, then the sons hopes for himself. “I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like the rest of them! Im one-dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldnt raise it. A buck an hour! Do you gather my meaning? Im not bringing home any prizes anymore and youre going to stop waiting for me to bring them home!” (Miller 132) perhaps Willy was too hard on his son, but at least he had hope. Yes, he did push Biff, and continued to push him over and over again (Miller act 1) in the hope he would one day become the son he dreamed of.
ℑI thought that the young will to avenge Biff’s death would be pretty strong compared to one who was too hard on a friend. As you know, this old man had some trouble with a lady, because he was so upset about his wife’s ex-husband killing her. When he found out he was going to be an actual victim of the mob, he turned to his brothers who were really sad and his wife’s former husband who had already been killed was too scared. Then one day one of his brothers called him up to tell him about Biff, about a house they bought on a large block of land on one side of the street and the mother’s house on the other side. They were upset about what Biff had done, because the mother was dead, and he was a bad man…№I know, but I’m glad he was here today. He called his family, and they told him it would cost a bunch of money to go to jail for a couple of years for beating and murdering their own mother! This old man would have never done such an act, but now he’s gone through with it, and the mob will be much more likely to take him down now. And I know that this lady took him in because Biff didn’t give a damn what he’d done to her, and we should respect that! The wife was a good person with a fine family, and you know what, she loved her people and cared more about the people in charge than the people in charge…℠I’m not a politician, I’m a lawyer, but I can’t support or defend any politician in my profession… I get the idea that you’ve been told every single time I run for president that I’ll have to defend these people for the rest of my life. The poor poor poor soul he has been talking to now is going to find these comments and be in a frenzy with how he got into this stuff. And then I know, or at least imagine in my mind, what we need to do to fix the situation or at least prevent something like this happening…⎗When you get to the point where you’re in a room full of people, what do you think of this place, which you could use to deal with any situation? Or what do you think of this lady, this lady who has been so kind as to call you in and she’s trying to deal with the situation, which really would be nice? If she’s going to give us just an hour there to make sure you don’t get burned, you better have another way around it, right? Then what do you think is going on with this whole situation? The point here is that even if you’re angry and have an ugly face (i’m talking about getting burned or something like that) and you’d like
ℑI thought that the young will to avenge Biff’s death would be pretty strong compared to one who was too hard on a friend. As you know, this old man had some trouble with a lady, because he was so upset about his wife’s ex-husband killing her. When he found out he was going to be an actual victim of the mob, he turned to his brothers who were really sad and his wife’s former husband who had already been killed was too scared. Then one day one of his brothers called him up to tell him about Biff, about a house they bought on a large block of land on one side of the street and the mother’s house on the other side. They were upset about what Biff had done, because the mother was dead, and he was a bad man…№I know, but I’m glad he was here today. He called his family, and they told him it would cost a bunch of money to go to jail for a couple of years for beating and murdering their own mother! This old man would have never done such an act, but now he’s gone through with it, and the mob will be much more likely to take him down now. And I know that this lady took him in because Biff didn’t give a damn what he’d done to her, and we should respect that! The wife was a good person with a fine family, and you know what, she loved her people and cared more about the people in charge than the people in charge…℠I’m not a politician, I’m a lawyer, but I can’t support or defend any politician in my profession… I get the idea that you’ve been told every single time I run for president that I’ll have to defend these people for the rest of my life. The poor poor poor soul he has been talking to now is going to find these comments and be in a frenzy with how he got into this stuff. And then I know, or at least imagine in my mind, what we need to do to fix the situation or at least prevent something like this happening…⎗When you get to the point where you’re in a room full of people, what do you think of this place, which you could use to deal with any situation? Or what do you think of this lady, this lady who has been so kind as to call you in and she’s trying to deal with the situation, which really would be nice? If she’s going to give us just an hour there to make sure you don’t get burned, you better have another way around it, right? Then what do you think is going on with this whole situation? The point here is that even if you’re angry and have an ugly face (i’m talking about getting burned or something like that) and you’d like
ℑI thought that the young will to avenge Biff’s death would be pretty strong compared to one who was too hard on a friend. As you know, this old man had some trouble with a lady, because he was so upset about his wife’s ex-husband killing her. When he found out he was going to be an actual victim of the mob, he turned to his brothers who were really sad and his wife’s former husband who had already been killed was too scared. Then one day one of his brothers called him up to tell him about Biff, about a house they bought on a large block of land on one side of the street and the mother’s house on the other side. They were upset about what Biff had done, because the mother was dead, and he was a bad man…№I know, but I’m glad he was here today. He called his family, and they told him it would cost a bunch of money to go to jail for a couple of years for beating and murdering their own mother! This old man would have never done such an act, but now he’s gone through with it, and the mob will be much more likely to take him down now. And I know that this lady took him in because Biff didn’t give a damn what he’d done to her, and we should respect that! The wife was a good person with a fine family, and you know what, she loved her people and cared more about the people in charge than the people in charge…℠I’m not a politician, I’m a lawyer, but I can’t support or defend any politician in my profession… I get the idea that you’ve been told every single time I run for president that I’ll have to defend these people for the rest of my life. The poor poor poor soul he has been talking to now is going to find these comments and be in a frenzy with how he got into this stuff. And then I know, or at least imagine in my mind, what we need to do to fix the situation or at least prevent something like this happening…⎗When you get to the point where you’re in a room full of people, what do you think of this place, which you could use to deal with any situation? Or what do you think of this lady, this lady who has been so kind as to call you in and she’s trying to deal with the situation, which really would be nice? If she’s going to give us just an hour there to make sure you don’t get burned, you better have another way around it, right? Then what do you think is going on with this whole situation? The point here is that even if you’re angry and have an ugly face (i’m talking about getting burned or something like that) and you’d like
Martin Luther King, Jr. changed everything with his dream. He saw the need for change and he went for it. He followed his hope even when it seemed unlikely for change (king). If it was not for his dream we would all be living differently. He believed in the hope of every person