Compare And Contrast The Gangster We Are Looking For

In The Gangster We Are Looking For and in the poem “Dandelion”, the characters struggle to achieve their version of the American Dream. Different things can affect people’s version of the American dream. For example, coming from different culture or even the same culture but at different ages, can have a great effect of a person’s version of the American Dream. The narrator in The Gangster We Are Looking For struggles very differently from her parents and the mother from “Dandelion” has a completely different version of the American dream than all three of the characters in The Gangster We Are Looking For. In general, people from different generations and cultures tend to place more value on certain things, so it makes sense that their version of the American dream would differ as well. For example, Ma and Ba from The Gangster We Are Looking For wanted to work and live in a safe environment to raise their family. They also had tried very hard to unite their family, which shows that part of their American Dream was being together as a family. The narrator ran away from home to the east coast, which shows family was not part of her American dream. This might be because the narrator was not only from a different generation, but raised in a different culture as well. …show more content…
This reasoning can be used to explain why the narrator and the narrator’s parents struggles to achieve their American dream in many different ways. When the narrator is outside playing, Ma and Ba had to worry about providing for their family and finding work. I think people struggles differently towards their American dream because when you are at different points of your life, your American Dream