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    this play is about American Dream and the interpretation about dream includes memories, confliction, and arguments of Willy Loman. Willy Loman who is the main character in this play has to face difficulty to achieve the America dream like others. However, the reality is often different to the imagination, so that Willy Loman has to exchange his life for the dreams. America is a country of youth, opportunities, and freedom which is a reason to explain “American dream”. People can be successful…

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    Kingsolver analyzes this circumstance in her novel Animal Dreams through her childless and unwed protagonist in the fictional town of Grace. Kingsolver’s works tend to critique the accepted and expected roles of women in society and evaluates the previously endorsed notion that women’s worth lies in their fertility and femininity. Placed in an era in which women’s roles were beginning to come further into question, Kingsolver 's Animal Dreams highlights the life of Cosima “Codi” Noline- a…

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    The explanation of suffering has been long sought, composing itself as an almost futile yearning to understand a pain that has no answer. This search can be linked to the human condition to romanticize the unsightly in order to make it an ideal, but mental illness is unfortunately unyielding to easy explanations. In Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” protagonist Esther Greenwood struggles with her mental illness in many ways, most of all in finding the strength to understand it. While wrestling with…

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    Guatemalan- American with two immigrant parents. The two films that I related to the most would have to be El Norte and Mi Familia/My Family; due to the way they explore the issues of the reality of immigration, difficulty in achieving the American dream, the prevalence of immigrants in U.S. labor market, and cultural identity. When it comes to facing the harsh, raw truth of what it means to immigrate to the United States, El Norte and Mi Familia/My Family does a superb job of portraying that…

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    perspectives and realities. It was here where he began to develop a category of people known as the dreamers. Dreamers were those who did not accept the reality of the world. The dream in his perspective sounds good, but it 's a lie that removes racism from the eyes of those who believe in it. The dream is considered the American dream that everyone works towards, what this society considers the biggest representation of equality and freedom. “...Struggle for the warmth of The Mecca…But do not…

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    The Representation of the Bell Jar As long as suffering exists, so too does the search for its explanation. The human urge to romanticize pain explains this pursuit, but mental illness is unfortunately unyielding to simple justifications. In Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” protagonist Esther Greenwood struggles with her mental illness in many ways, most of all in finding the strength to understand it. While wrestling with her separation from the world, she explores the ways in which to represent…

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    Curley’s wife’s American Dream was to become famous in Hollywood, but she didn’t all because her mother said she was too young. As a result of this, she settled for marrying Curley and living on the ranch feeling isolated for the rest of her short lived life after being accidentally killed by Lennie. Crooks also wants to live the American Dream but that didn’t work out either. Now he has a crooked back and a lives alone in a bunk in…

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    The Coen Brother’s, Inside Llewyn Davis presents a new perspective of the American Nightmare for Llewyn after the death his parter informs his new perspective of his personal American Dream. Through the use of visual techniques the Coen Brothers reveal how Llewyn’s past is corrupting his future. The brothers strove to create an image with limited contrast and a wide palette of gray tones whilst maintaining firm grasp on contrast ratios in interiors and exteriors. Ethan stated that the goal was…

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    My idea of success is when you accomplish something that you’ve tried to complete for a long time. In the text, the author expresses how two different characters have two different ideas on what success is. The two characters are Biff and his father Willy. Towards the end of the text they began to bump heads due to this situation. In the text Willy feels that if you have money that means you’re successful because in his eyes the ultimate goal is to have money. He feels that his brother is a huge…

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    They also seeks and probes the undying will to never give up in such an unforgiving business world. They also examine the concept of the main character’s necessity to be well liked. Success and failure is a significant ideology of the American dream especially within the business world. Both main characters, Willi Loman and Richard Hoover, perpetuate their failures yet strive for success to their highest potential. Richard vitiates his family views and values by his adamant persona and…

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