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Morgan Erwin

Erin Day

English 2010

13 May 2020

The Ideal American Dream

The American Dream is something everyone has wanted since the beginning of America.

It is something people in poor economies overseas would dream of. Everyone always talked

about it. Getting out of the troubling situations they were in and starting a fresh, new, perfect life

in America living the American Dream. The American Dream was the “perfect life”. Somewhere

where you could always be happy and never have to worry about being in danger or starving.

Things were to say in the simplest of terms “perfect”. You could live out your dream and, most

of all, be free. The American Dream enhanced your happiness, allowing for a richer, fuller life

and equality involving many amazing opportunities to make your life worth living again.

To begin, people imagined coming to America to achieve this dream of having a richer,

fuller life. The definition of a richer and fuller life is different for everyone because everyone

wants to achieve different things. Some people want all of the fame and money, while others just

want to have food on the table everyday and experience success. Being able to have the ability to

achieve those things and get out of the bad situations they were in before was one of the biggest

parts associated with the American Dream in these peoples minds.

In adherence, another big thing people were looking for was equality. We even still have

equality issues today. But that was a big part of the American Dream in a lot of people's eyes.

Some of the individuals were coming from bad backgrounds. Things such as slavery for black
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people or sexism between the genders or male and female. The idea that everyone could be equal

in America was a huge thing.

Concluding, the American Dream is hard to define and truly different for everyone. Just

having this dream in mind even if it might not be completely true allowed people to be hopeful.

Personally, that was the biggest part of the American Dream. Maybe it was all just a hoax in the

first place. No one knows. But just having that thought in the back of someone’s mind gave them

hope that things could get better. People wanted to come to American to gain this dream and be

able to have a better, richer, fuller life. To be able to maintain equality no matter what race or

gender you were. To have hope that things could get better for you. That is the American Dream.