Realizing what is truly important to us is a major step towards achieving personal success. Once a person fully knows who they are, they are able to see limitations and opportunities. Personal success is being able to allow for personal growth. Success can mean having a family, friends, and a mediocre paying job that satisfies. It is important to keep a balance of the important things in one’s life otherwise, weaknesses can be developed that shadows over a person’s natural strength to prioritize.
An "American Dream" is something that many people want to accomplish when they come to America for the first time or just when they live here. Someone that has an American Dream can mean that they want freedom, equal rights, a better life, happiness, or overcome poverty. Ruth from The Color of Water by James McBride and Chino from Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez both had a dream. That dream was to give both of their families a better life and to do something better with their lives. Many people have an American dream but only few people succeed with there dream like Ruth and Chino.
John Proctor was definitely not a man without mistakes, but I believe that he did more good than bad in the end. Some of his actions were bad, but you have to look at the situation he was in. John Proctor was a victim of the Salem Witch Trials. The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts, between February 1692 and May 1693. In the book, The Crucible, a young group of girls are accusing people around the town as being bonded with the devil.
Mouse burdens Easy with the fact that he has committed a senseless murder. Easy decides to leave Houston for good after Mouse confesses to him. Bob Jones and Easy Rawlins have very different backgrounds. Easy Rawlins grew up on a sharecroppers farm in the South and his parents were not very significant in his life (Mosely 15). Bob Jones grew up in the North.
“witch accusations” Many missionaries are working at a mission field where “witchcraft” is involved. And generally missionaries do not know how to deal with witchcraft. Most missionaries ignore it or regard it as satanic power. Aftertimes they are afraid of involving themselves with witchcraft. So I would like to give a workshop for my young missionary colleagues as I have learned in the seminary course I took on “popular religions” where readings and lectures discussed witch accusations.
Throughout the history of America, there have been periods in which our society has questioned its values. Often, this moral questioning has turned into mass hysteria. In 1692, Salem, Massachusetts, was rapidly changing; land ownership was in dispute, the role of religion was deteriorating, and individual freedom was gaining importance. The witchcraft trials can be seen as an attempt by Salem’s leaders to reaffirm the role of religion, and the fear of the Devil. Later, in the 1950s, during McCarthyism or the Red Scare, communist hunts occurred as a means to purify our society from the threat of Communism.
Salem is important in understanding this story because at that time, the town of Salem was ingested in the controversy of the Salem witch trials. Hawthorne purposely places this story in a forest near Salem to toy with the idea of an evil setting. When looking at Goodman brown’s wife Faith, we see that this is a representation of not only of his wife but also his religious faith. Hawthorne leaves little hits saying “ And Faith, as the wife was aptly named” (87) and “My love and my Faith.” (87) to show that it is no coincidence that she is named like this. The unity of YGB and faith versus the separation is one of the biggest struggles in this story.
One reason why the American Dream is not able to be obtained is because for African Americans and other ethnicities is because there is freedom of religion but it is limited you cant worship pray or praise in public places so you can go to jail an not live the dream. Another reason why the American Dream is unattainable is because even though its called freedom of speech it is limited and also you have to pay to talk sometimes plus says thing often get the different ethnic groups arrested or killed. The American Dream can be unattainable because if you don’t have a better life then you cant get a good education then you cant have a good job so you cant have good money and you wont be able to have a nice car or house and you wont be able to start a family
Although many others believe the American Dream has ceased to exist, King feels that “The ideals and values of the American Dream are still very much alive… I would redefine the American Dream today as the potential to work for an honest, secure way of life and save for the future”(King 572-3). The rise of the middle-class lifestyle has caused this transition in the Dream. Because of the high-income gap, along with the Great Recession, more Americans strive for this new goal of economic stability. By taking a look at one of
The American Dream At one time most had the same vision of what the American Dream was all about. But as times have changed throughout the decades, people have changed along the way and the vision has evolved with it. The American Dream for most could be summed up to a better way of life. In other words, one could achieve their goals no matter who they are or where they came from. The feeling of security within one’s life is a basic necessity for that very goal.