American Dreams

American Dreams Essay #2 The definition of the “American Dream” is obtaining a beautiful house with a white picket fence; kids are playing in the freshly cut green lawn with your yellow lab dog, you holding your young wife while having a new Chevrolet pickup truck and a Lund boat sitting in the driveway. It’s coming home from a long day of work for your kids to come jumping into your arms full excitement while you smile and kiss your spouse. As for many people vision these scenes from things they have seen on television or books they’ve read, it is as though this is the “American Dream.” Well, maybe this is my own personal picture of the American Dream, but this proving that everybody has their own imagination of what an American Dream is. In all reality, there is no one way to define what the American Dream is. It can truly be looked at by anything from finding wealth, love, or just whatever one can consider happiness. The American Dream is full of options, but mainly finding what suits you and what makes you having a life worth living and a life full of happiness. A great example of a book read in class, that helps justify just what an American Dream is, Hurston’s “Their Eyes We’re Watching God.” Main character, Janie, goes through many struggles in her life. She had been told at an early age from her grandma that she was to marry a man that would give her security and protection. Although she wanted love far more than any of those things, she still followed her first marriage with what her grandma had wanted for her. In the end, she found love with a man that was not of any wealth, or high social status, but married him merely for her own personal happiness. “Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships” –Zora Hurston. Something that I take out of this quote is that you can’t decipher someone else’s happiness as to that should be left to them and them only. Janie, through all her struggles, finally found love and happiness in the