Obstacle affecting American Dreams
The ideology of American dream was propagated for the first time by James Truslow Adams in the year 1931. He was of the view that the United States of America should be a land of equal opportunity for every citizen. It should be a country which provides people with the livelihood that they deserve. Depending upon a citizen’s capability, United States must offer enough resources in exchange for his talent. This belief is equivalent to the concept of prosperity introduced by Chairman Mao Zedong in the People's Republic of China.
The idea of American Dream has been elaborated in the book ‘Epic of America.' He was of the view that the working middle class should be given integral role in the development of American …show more content…
Some may perceive it as a depiction of happiness and freedom whereas others may see a sad and dark side of human life and nature. Most of the time, there is always a lesson to be learned by looking at a piece of literary work, whether it is in a cheerful sense or a dark and gruesome side of the picture. All-in-all, the focus of literary artwork ranges from many fields of societies and cultures in the world as shown in Two Kinds by Amy Tan in the shape of Jing-Mei (the modern-cum-fashionable representation of American society) and her opposite Jing-Mei's mother (The narrow-minded rigidity of ancient beliefs). Cultural conflicts include spiritual perceptions, cultural creeds, and faiths, sense of fashion and modernity, music, politics, architectural attributes, etc.
A prominent dimension of Amy’s fiction is that most of her work is associated with the idea of the American Dream in one way or the other. Her story Two Kinds is an art of high aesthetic value because it is viewed as a bridge connecting two opposing mindsets as represented by Jing-Mei and her mother. There is always a hidden message in a piece of literary writing. From this particular work of literature, one can imagine the contrast in the way these two characters see the American dream from their unique
The ideology of American dream was propagated for the first time by James Truslow Adams in the year 1931. He was of the view that the United States of America should be a land of equal opportunity for every citizen. It should be a country which provides people with the livelihood that they deserve. Depending upon a citizen’s capability, United States must offer enough resources in exchange for his talent. This belief is equivalent to the concept of prosperity introduced by Chairman Mao Zedong in the People's Republic of China.
The idea of American Dream has been elaborated in the book ‘Epic of America.' He was of the view that the working middle class should be given integral role in the development of American …show more content…
Some may perceive it as a depiction of happiness and freedom whereas others may see a sad and dark side of human life and nature. Most of the time, there is always a lesson to be learned by looking at a piece of literary work, whether it is in a cheerful sense or a dark and gruesome side of the picture. All-in-all, the focus of literary artwork ranges from many fields of societies and cultures in the world as shown in Two Kinds by Amy Tan in the shape of Jing-Mei (the modern-cum-fashionable representation of American society) and her opposite Jing-Mei's mother (The narrow-minded rigidity of ancient beliefs). Cultural conflicts include spiritual perceptions, cultural creeds, and faiths, sense of fashion and modernity, music, politics, architectural attributes, etc.
A prominent dimension of Amy’s fiction is that most of her work is associated with the idea of the American Dream in one way or the other. Her story Two Kinds is an art of high aesthetic value because it is viewed as a bridge connecting two opposing mindsets as represented by Jing-Mei and her mother. There is always a hidden message in a piece of literary writing. From this particular work of literature, one can imagine the contrast in the way these two characters see the American dream from their unique