Dream? More Like a Nightmare.
Bernie Sanders once said “For many, the American dream has become a nightmare”. The past notions that America is country in which people have freedom and the ability to better their lives has died within the last several decades. However, some are still under the belief that the dream lives. This has done nothing but make their lives and the lives of their dependents worse as their identity has become convoluted. The fact the American Dream is nothing but a dream as shown in A Raisin in the Sun, “Refugee Ship”, and “A Supermarket in California”. In all three works, the actions and dialogue of the main characters or speaker reveal how their identity has led to a nightmare rather than a dream.
In Lorraine …show more content…
However, her bitterness is more of the cultural differences in her identity. Cervantes depicts her loneliness that her mother caused because of her quest for the American Dream; “Mama raised me without language./I’m orphaned from my Spanish name./The words are foreign, stumbling/on my tongue…” (343 Ln 5-8). Cervantes’s mother’s drive to assimilate her daughter into her adopted culture detaches Cervantes from her lineal cultural affiliation. This in turn provokes Cervantes to feel trapped in the life she has been given. She is a captive- in her own words- aboard a refugee ship that can be determined to symbolize her mother’s freedom from the country she left to chase the American …show more content…
He specifically states “Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we’ll both be lonely” (345 Ln 10-11). He shares his loneliness with Walt Whitman, a poet Ginsberg’s poem focuses on. The reason Ginsberg is lonely in a supermarket full of other people is evident in the analysis given by an author of The Misfits Closet blog. She stated “It can be interpreted that those of the homosexual persuasion are also packaged separately from the whole families” (Misfits Par. 4). Ginsberg feels isolated in his identity because of the fact he is homosexual and homosexuality was frowned upon- and still is- in society. He found the American Dream of equality and freedom for all to be a lie as freedom is only for a select
Bernie Sanders once said “For many, the American dream has become a nightmare”. The past notions that America is country in which people have freedom and the ability to better their lives has died within the last several decades. However, some are still under the belief that the dream lives. This has done nothing but make their lives and the lives of their dependents worse as their identity has become convoluted. The fact the American Dream is nothing but a dream as shown in A Raisin in the Sun, “Refugee Ship”, and “A Supermarket in California”. In all three works, the actions and dialogue of the main characters or speaker reveal how their identity has led to a nightmare rather than a dream.
In Lorraine …show more content…
However, her bitterness is more of the cultural differences in her identity. Cervantes depicts her loneliness that her mother caused because of her quest for the American Dream; “Mama raised me without language./I’m orphaned from my Spanish name./The words are foreign, stumbling/on my tongue…” (343 Ln 5-8). Cervantes’s mother’s drive to assimilate her daughter into her adopted culture detaches Cervantes from her lineal cultural affiliation. This in turn provokes Cervantes to feel trapped in the life she has been given. She is a captive- in her own words- aboard a refugee ship that can be determined to symbolize her mother’s freedom from the country she left to chase the American …show more content…
He specifically states “Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we’ll both be lonely” (345 Ln 10-11). He shares his loneliness with Walt Whitman, a poet Ginsberg’s poem focuses on. The reason Ginsberg is lonely in a supermarket full of other people is evident in the analysis given by an author of The Misfits Closet blog. She stated “It can be interpreted that those of the homosexual persuasion are also packaged separately from the whole families” (Misfits Par. 4). Ginsberg feels isolated in his identity because of the fact he is homosexual and homosexuality was frowned upon- and still is- in society. He found the American Dream of equality and freedom for all to be a lie as freedom is only for a select