The American Dream is what all Americans are striving for. The book, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert Putnam, is about how the American Dream is getting harder to get a hold of. The American Dream is that if someone works hard, that they can have huge success and live a nice life. The book have chapters that talk about different things. This includes, families, parenting, schooling, and more. In the book, there are different stories of kids that grow up in different places, time periods, and social classes. Robert starts of the book by talking about his classmates, and how life was different from what it is now. Also the book uses some charts to explain something in-depth. Most of the charts compare high school educated people and college educated people. One of the charts demonstrated that college educated people wait until their late 20s and early 30s to have kids. The high school educated would have kids in their late teens and early 20s. There are many techniques and topics that are used in this book, so hopefully more americans can achieve the American Dream.
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This way uses interviews and stories that can bring emotions to the reader. Most of it are the stories that can bring emotions. One example is Elijah’s story. It is like a story and an interview together. Robert talks about how he met Elijah. Elijah didn’t grow up in the right life. “While he was only an infant, both parents became involved with other partners,” (Putnam, Robert D. “Parenting.” Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015, p. 101.) This was only the beginning of his story. As the reader, you don’t understand how bad some people have it until you read it. Reading Elijah’s story should me that there are people that live like him. You hear about these stories and don’t think much about them. This way was used so people that are sensible would get into the stories and get a feeling of the
This way uses interviews and stories that can bring emotions to the reader. Most of it are the stories that can bring emotions. One example is Elijah’s story. It is like a story and an interview together. Robert talks about how he met Elijah. Elijah didn’t grow up in the right life. “While he was only an infant, both parents became involved with other partners,” (Putnam, Robert D. “Parenting.” Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2015, p. 101.) This was only the beginning of his story. As the reader, you don’t understand how bad some people have it until you read it. Reading Elijah’s story should me that there are people that live like him. You hear about these stories and don’t think much about them. This way was used so people that are sensible would get into the stories and get a feeling of the