Shepard says that living the American dream is an “impossible dream” and I think that he is wrong because the American dream is all about freedom which includes the opportunity for prosperity, success and social mobility received through hard work. The American Dream in the story Bread Givers is totally being unitized through Sara Smolinsky because she fought her way to become someone for herself by not giving up and not letting her father control her life. Sara struggles to achieve her American culture by leaving her family, putting herself through college alone. Sara always had faith in herself and she would not quit until she achieves what she wants. Yes you can say the American dream was “impossible” for some people, who did not care enough to find a way from their old culture and follow a new
Their dreams may sound alike, but they are very different. Walter, Ruth, and Beneatha Younger all lived under the same roof, but their dreams were all different. The dreams of Walter, Ruth, and Beneatha show us that despite great obstacles, the American Dream is still possible. One of the characters with a dream is Walter Lee Younger. Walters dream is to invest in a liquor store with the money his mother is acquiring from the insurance company.
After they find their husbands they get married, have kids and then stay home to take care of the kids while their husbands went out to work. This was a normal thing to do back then, as men were seen as the breadwinner of the family, the only one who should be bringing in money to the family. Eugenia Phelan was different, she went to university and got a degree and decided to do something with it. It was hard for her at first to get the book published because of the controversial topic: the lives of black maids. She eventually gets the booked published and shares her royalties with the maids that contributed to the book, and is offered a job at a publication company in New
Abigail Adams believed women should be educated and be recognized for their intellectual capabilities, so they could guide and influence the lives of their children and husband instead of being companions. Three reasons why men shouldn’t be given unlimited power are because women and men should have equal powers, education and property rights. Would you want to live a life where the husband treats you as a slave and he’s the master? Or where women are ignored and do not have any property rights? While John Adams was attending the Continental Congress to support American independence, Abigail Adam asked her husband to “remember the ladies” (pg.
Della Mae Justice took in her niece and nephew who were in foster care. She didn't grow up to immediately become middle-class. What Justice did was work so hard to climb out of the working-class to become middle-class so that her niece and nephew could have more than what she was offered when she was their age. Aware of the financial situations, Justice is compared to others in the upper and working class, she struggles with the different cultures each has. Lewin quotes Justice when she says, "'My stomach's always in knots getting ready to go to a party, wondering if I'm wearing the right thing, if I'll know what to do..." (70) This happens because of the different cultures the middle-class, which Justice is now in, presents, compared to the lower class she used to be in.
When he asks his siblings about his race or his background, they tease, lie, or dismiss him. When he asks his mother about herself, she avoids the question or answers curtly. James attempts to negotiate these conflicting loyalties. He feels protective toward his mother, but at the same time, he lives in a mostly black neighborhood where the political atmosphere moves him to embrace the revolution. Ruth's description of her childhood in Suffolk enables both James and the reader to understand how she decided to live her own life.
At least two generations of Jews immigrated to America at the turn of the century: parents and their children. Not surprisingly, the ease of their entry into American society varied greatly. Dora, while immensely proud when her daughter Lucy started school, was determined to not be left behind. “People will beggar themselves to send their children to college, only to be treated as fools and greenhorns by them. I call that terrible.
Taste this.” He tasted it and said: “Just delicious. You the best, Momma. The best.” He let her resume cooking and put his dad in a head lock. He held him in, until his father punched him in the side. “Oww dad.
The movement helped bring about major changes in the lives for women as a whole, and also in everyday life of others in the United States. Before the women begin to act out about the treatment they received for society, their expected roles was to sit home, bear children, clean the house, clean the clothes and cook. Tired, stressed and frustrated women had many demands that the societal expectations of them change, from being servile house-bound creatures expected to save themselves for one man in marriage, after and during this movement women were able to get professional and blue-collar jobs that were available only for men. Women were treated as though they were second class citizens and not as an equal to man. It put the demands for women’s equality, religion, sports, marriage and child bearing on a higher scale.
However, his shipmates think the wind god has secretly given him gold and silver. They rip open the bag and release all the winds they need to complete their journey home. This shows temptation for the imaginary gold, and folly. They return to Aeolus, but he refusing to help someone so cursed by the Gods. Next they row to the land of the Laestrygonians, they seem kind and willing to help, but instead eat some of the men for dinner and sink many of their ships.