American Dream Without Freedom

No Dream Without Freedom Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Solomon Northup fulfill their American dream by overcoming racial prejudices through their passionate words in American literature. These three authors use the right of freedom of speech in their favor in order to share their beliefs on the injustices of social inequality. By confronting society with the moral realities of slavery, these authors are able to unveil the hardships of those who are not given a fair opportunity at the “American Dream”, sparking a desire in readers to end slavery. Through the lessons taught by Atticus Finch, Harper Lee shows readers the racial injustice in the South. Tom, an innocent black man, is accused of raping a white woman; because of his true innocence, he is seen as one of the “mockingbirds” in the novel, “mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They
Although Northup was a successful, free, African American before being thrown into slavery, he still managed to persevere and turned his experience into a novel which would change American history forever. After escaping slavery, “Northup achieved a remarkable degree of success as an abolitionist indictment against slavery. First published in 1853, three years after the fugitive slave act, Northup’s narrative served as an important cultural symbol of slave life on southern plantations during antebellum America before the civil war” (Lieblich). Northup overcame slavery by literally escaping it. He further went on to writing an influential novel which not only provided exposure to the unethical practice of slavery, but also confronted the government by holding it accountable to its guarantee to the American people and the sever conflict slavery posed against that. This was a challenging, but gratifying achievement in obtaining the American dream for