The Dreamer

All individuals strive to be successful and achieve their goals. Imbolo Mbue’s novel Behold the Dreamers shows the lives of two different families, from very opposite worlds. The Jongas came from a poor small town in Cameroon. With little to no personal possessions or connections in America, the Jongas had to rebuild their lives from the beginning. On the opposite side of the spectrum were the Edwards, a wealthy family from the Upper East Side. The Edwards were living the American dream and…

Alike the author Junot Diaz in his text ‘The Dreamer,’ there is a woman, who shaped the eighteen years old young woman I am today. She is a black African woman, who comes from a village in Cameroon, a country located in central Africa. She is a single mother of four beautiful black kids, who paved the way for her children and their children children to guarantee them an exceptional future. She is a daughter, who received a minimal education because of the potential her father saw in her. You…

Not a Lucid Dreamer Ever since I was little I knew I was different. There was something about the way I viewed the world that always made me wonder why I saw it that way. I'd see a tree but to me it wouldn't be a tree it'd become a prop in my own live-action play. Everything that existed, existed to me for a completely different reason compared to the initial. A basic household item simply just existing gave me a new story to make up. It was as if I was living in a whole other universe. I felt…

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ourselves and fight for what we want. Nowadays we have the privilege of education which is taken for granted. In the past generations it wasn’t easy to have education and many countries today still have difficulties getting it. In this essay “The Dreamer” by Junot Díaz he writes about how his mother overcame great obstacles and fought against her family's ideals to accomplish her dreams. His mother drank the dirty puddle water so she wouldn’t have the future her mother wanted her to have and the…

“She’s a dreamer. A doer. A thinker. She sees possibility everywhere.” - Anonymous. For the past week I’ve done a lot of thinking about the American dream and what that means to me. This semester in school we read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald which is set in the 1920’s ; the American dream back then was all about money, who could throw the biggest party, have the best clothes, drive the best car rather than morals values such as hope and the pursuit of happiness. Now, almost a century…

Hard dreamer age 25 male a case of frequent disruption to studies & parents under emotional & financial stress. As a kid “he cuts his small toe when he was one years old resulting in an unusual bleed,” (Ramchander, 2009). Then he starts “bleeding frequently from different sites like his gums, nose & ears,” (Ramchander, 2009). Three years later he bleeds from his forehead & hip after a fall, he experiences a major bleed in the urinary tract, & lastly his right knee is swollen making his movements…

“Dreamer” Analysis Throughout the poem, Dorothy Rose talks about her dream, which takes place in the ocean. Rose describes how the ocean is comforting to her and relaxing; however, four simple words can bring the happiness of a stress-free life crashing down. In “Dreamer,” the writer uses similes, personification and tone to indicate that dreams give people the opportunity to revisit their carefree moments in life. Rose uses a simile in her poem to show the reader how free and happy she feels…

acceptance, love, and safety, and generally has ties back to one's family. So in the case of a home beyond home, one of these locations is often a house, whereas the other is the true home. This is the case for the Jonga family in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers, where Jende eventually decides that he will never be able to turn New York City into a home for his family, and returning to Cameroon will be the only way to rekindle this sense of home. In The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda…

1.vThe meaning of the parable in Jesus time is that if younger sibling asked for his part of the inheritance before his father is dead and the younger sibling could do that but it was not a loving thing to do because he wished his father was dead. The father gave the son his part of the inheritance and then the younger son used all of his inheritance he got and then he decided to go back to his father's house. But if the son came back he was considered a slave by his father for coming back to…