American Dream Catcher In The Rye

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America now providing free dreams to everyone! Are you rich, poor, old, young, advantaged, disadvantaged, energetic, tired, certain, unsure, or even other? Well, America is providing American Dreams, including access and achievement, to everyone and more! False, America never has and never will provide dreams, America itself cannot create dreams. The people in America have to create, provide, and give access to dreams. By creating their own path, working hard to achieve it, and providing and creating opportunities Rather it's for themselves or others, not America, but Americans have to provide access to the American Dream. Therefore, America cannot provide or give access to the American Dream to anyone. The people have to provide access to …show more content…
Such as Thomas P.F. Hoving, New York's former Parks Commissioner and director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was a dropout's dropout. But he dropped in again at the top of his profession. Also another dropout Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the most popular literary hero of the post war period. There is nothing accidental about the grip that this dropout continues to hold on an entire American generation. Nobody else, real or created, has made such an engaging shambles of our "goal-oriented society", so gratified our secret belief that the "phonies" are in power and all the good guys up the creek. Of course, was a dropout. These dropouts show that going your own path will achieve your dream. There is no right path as The Right to Fail by William Zinsser shows "Who is to say, then, if there is any right path to the top, or even to say what the top consist of? Obviously the colleges don't have anymore than a partial answer--otherwise the young would not be so disaffected with an education they consider vapid. Obviously business does not have the answer--otherwise the young would not be so scornful of its call to be an organization man." This quote provides more evidence that there is no 'set way', because nobody has the answer, …show more content…
Such as in Lifelong Dreamer--Vietnam Boat Person by Mary-Beth McLaughlin a refugee from South Vietnam during the war. She had to sail from hiding under sandbags from bombs, to the unknown land of America. Threw a long 15-day boat trip with her family not knowing where she was going. Along the way her young children were getting very sick and her family barely ate enough to survive. When they arrived they picked the fastest place and still didn't know the size of the US or Ohio. She didn't know English, have any money, or a job. Her husband got a job as they finished English classes. She became a student at Ma Chere Hair Style Academy and got a job. She then worked very hard for her dream of becoming an owner of her own shop. She achieved her dream as the shop (Toledo Blade) became very successful. This article shows how, even from extreme circumstances, people can work to achieve their dreams. More examples from They Live The Dream by Dan Rather. Such as Delores Kesler who started with only a loan to start a company to barely get by, and with hard work turned into a retired millionaire. Also Wayne Ward Ford who started in the rough area of Washington D.C., caused a lot of trouble in high school. But he got a football scholarship from a small nearly all-white Minnesota college, and from the racism he faced, he put energy into activism. He later founded the schools black student union. Next he became
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