American Promise Essay

On the other hand, the film American Promise by Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson, introduces one to the struggling life that two boys have to face while attending a mostly white school and how their class differences changes their perspective and their experience at the Dalton School. Idris’s family is on the wealthier side of the middle class and we see the differences that this make on Idris’s life. For starters Idris had his own room and studying space to do his school work which made it easier for him to navigate through school. Additionally, Idris had his mother there to help him with school work and to keep him on tract throughout his years at Dalton because she didn’t need to work since the dad was the provider of the family and it was enough to sustain them. This meant the Idris had more support and more resources to succeed at Dalton then
Both, Radio golf and American promise, are able to show us the differences that money can have on the lives of people. Money means more resources, more connection, but most importantly different morals and goals that we set for one another. However, the fact that these middle-class families were of the same race changes the dynamic of the film and the play because it not only shows the struggle between the classes, but also how it strains the classes as well. For a lower middle class or a lower-class family, it means that they are looked down upon by the wealthier black because they don’t have the same resources that they have. However, for the lower middle class families and lower class families it means that they have remained humbler through their journeys. The play and the film are able to show us that it is not about the money, but that class is more important and that as a race we should be working to bring each other up and help both the lower class and the middle class