Denise Spooner's A New Perspective On The Dream

The Midwest, a place in the world where communities are closely aligned to one another. These small, rural communities rely on every person in order to create that community. It seems as though that knowing everyone around the small communities was what made a person successful in life. Additionally, these communities valued hard-work and honesty when it came with almost everything they did in their lives; whether it was working in the farmlands or spreading information throughout the communities about certain people to look out for, it was hard to be anonymous inside the city. Unfortunately, there are sometimes citizens that do not look forward to that kind of lifestyle. Consequently, these rural communities take them out of their society …show more content…
Specifically in the Midwestern community, this group was compiled with a multitude of farmers that valued hard-working and honest people. Additionally, the Midwesterners were also subjective to those who were a certain ethnicity, religion, and social class. In Denise Spooner’s essay “ A New Perspective on the Dream”, she analyzes the Midwestern community’s accustomed consensuality of religion, race, and social norms. Many possible benefits and risks of having a community such as the Midwest would show up. First of all. strengths of having a community like the Midwest would include an internal drive for all of its community members to succeed and thrive around themselves and a greater connection or a sense of place to where they will feel at ease. However, some consequences of having a close, small community like the Midwest would include a sense of indifference inside the community which would eventually drive people insane if every citizen were to general agreement with one another; some people would be want to seclude themselves out of their communities if they did not approve of the concurrence of the Midwest