Achieving the American Dream
Sara’s journey is the best example of the American dream. Sara’s a first generation Jewish immigrant with three sisters, a very traditional father, and a compliant mother. She pulls herself up by her bootstraps and gets herself and education. It’s difficult and the path is challenging but she gains knowledge. She uses both these new experiences and her childhood to discover that she can merge the two worlds to create her own success. By merging bits and pieces of the Old World and the New World, Sara ultimately represented the American dream creating and achieving her own goal. Sara grows up with only her father’s perspective. Being a new immigrant, she only knows her family and their traditional Jewish ways …show more content…
In the end, she learns that she can have her American education and her traditional roots. Sara pulls bits and pieces from her experiences to become happy. Ultimately she invites her father back into her life and Hugo, her husband, says that “[their] home will the richer if [her] father come with [them]” (296). Now she has made peace and merged the pieces of her lifestyles. She now has the advantage of being more mature. She has witnessed unacceptance into the hard working immigrant life and the frivolous American society. Sara recognizes that she needs the Old and the New and doesn’t have to choose just one to be happy.
Sara rises up above her sisters and other classmates to achieve the American dream. She’s able to experience and merge parts of the Old and the New World. The American Dream fed to her as a child only lead to false expectations by thinking she had to chose only one world. She creates a new life by pulling from the witnessing the sexism in her childhood, being unable to connect with students at college, and inviting a part of her Old World back into her life. Sara’s humble beginning inspired her to progress beyond poverty which is truly the American
Sara’s journey is the best example of the American dream. Sara’s a first generation Jewish immigrant with three sisters, a very traditional father, and a compliant mother. She pulls herself up by her bootstraps and gets herself and education. It’s difficult and the path is challenging but she gains knowledge. She uses both these new experiences and her childhood to discover that she can merge the two worlds to create her own success. By merging bits and pieces of the Old World and the New World, Sara ultimately represented the American dream creating and achieving her own goal. Sara grows up with only her father’s perspective. Being a new immigrant, she only knows her family and their traditional Jewish ways …show more content…
In the end, she learns that she can have her American education and her traditional roots. Sara pulls bits and pieces from her experiences to become happy. Ultimately she invites her father back into her life and Hugo, her husband, says that “[their] home will the richer if [her] father come with [them]” (296). Now she has made peace and merged the pieces of her lifestyles. She now has the advantage of being more mature. She has witnessed unacceptance into the hard working immigrant life and the frivolous American society. Sara recognizes that she needs the Old and the New and doesn’t have to choose just one to be happy.
Sara rises up above her sisters and other classmates to achieve the American dream. She’s able to experience and merge parts of the Old and the New World. The American Dream fed to her as a child only lead to false expectations by thinking she had to chose only one world. She creates a new life by pulling from the witnessing the sexism in her childhood, being unable to connect with students at college, and inviting a part of her Old World back into her life. Sara’s humble beginning inspired her to progress beyond poverty which is truly the American