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Stephen Calkins Jacob Miller THE AMERICAN DREAM

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Stephen Calkins

Jacob Miller

THE AMERICAN DREAM

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THE AMERICAN DREAM

In the Beginning of the

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THE AMERICAN DREAM

• Began with immigrants moving here for a better life

• Later popularized by writers of the 20th century who were not

happy with the way people had interpreted the Dream

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• Many very successful business men

lived in luxury

• This shows immigrants with very little

trying to find their American Dream

19TH CENTURY

What people had What people could have

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• Material goods, Black Rights, Social

Order

• Barely a job, low wages

20TH CENTURY

What people had What people wanted

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THE AMERICAN DREAM

Main themes of the

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MAIN THEMES• The American Dream has been interpreted many different ways

and is different for everyone

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of

humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a

dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

-Archibald MacLeish

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Edges and disjuncts, shattered, bitter planes,

a wedge of disconsolate memories to echo fame,

fear of the past, a future still to blame--

Multiple heavens, hells, nothing is straight.

You earn your money, then you wait

for so-called life to see that you get paid.

Tilt! Again it's all gone wrong.

This is a heartless, hopeless song.

This is an empty, useless song.

-Robert Creeley

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MAIN THEME

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THE AMERICAN DREAM

Reflecting on society with the

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REFLECTION

• The American Dream is perceived as a struggle for material

goods

• Many people worked from the ground up to gain a materialistic

life

• Writers have disagreed with this for years

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REFLECTION

• The American Dream has changed and many now look for “Get

Rich Quick”

• Work values for many have dramatically shifted

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• “Rags to Riches”

• If you work hard then you will succeed

bringing wealth and God’s grace

• He won on “Who Wants To Be A

Millionaire”, well so can I

• Lottery

REFLECTION

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REFLECTION

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REFLECTION

• The lottery and game shows now target Americans desire for

money

• These lures make large amounts of money feeding off of

people’s naïveeity

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AMERICAN DREAM

What is our

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Stephen

Money

Big House

Car

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Jacob

Babes

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QUESTIONS?