I think the American Dream is...

     I think the American Dream is the equality we wish to have, but instead we don't have it. This idea came from five out of the seven texts I've read. In each of the five texts, it links back to equality.

     Privilege mentions how the government and law treats black and rich people differently. While the text is about half and half when it talks about the blacks and rich people, the topic of the rich seems to go more in depth. For example, Ethan Couch, who "drove drunk and killed four people, but was punished only with rehab and probation... Having been raised rich, he didn't know any better- a condition some are calling "affluenza."" This is what they call a "get-out-of-jail-free card" that most people who don't have the money can't use.

     Let America Be... is a seven stanza poem that talks about freedom and the different races. How America is never free, how it's not the dream they thought of. Only a page long, but it has plenty to think about.

     Kenny is about a man and how he gets treated poorly by his work even though he works extremely hard for them and nearly gets killed multiple times. This one time the plant Kenny works at needed to be cleaned, so his boss asked him to come in. "In his street clothes, Kenny began cleaning the place, climbing into tanks and spraying them with a liquid chlorine mix. Chlorine is a hazardous chemical that can be inhaled or absorbed through skin, causing a litany of health problems... Need to wear protective gloves, safety goggles, a self-contained respirator, and full coveralls. Kenny's supervisor gave him a paper dust mask to wear, but it quickly dissolved... Kenny went home and fell ill... His lungs had been burned by the chemicals." As the rest of the story goes on, Kenny gets more and more disabled and eventually gets fired by the company who caused the incidents for him.

     The One to Get Away show how a family has a more complicated life than Missy's, with rumors and stories floating around. Missy has no knowledge of her father and lives with her mother. Luckily, she got a job to help her mother out with the home and eventually got a car. Her mother encourages her to leave town and find a better life.

     The Invisible Man discusses race, sexuality, religion, and gender. Race, however, is the most common one, while the other three are mentioned once or twice through out the text. The main Character, Larry, who is a very successful black male, goes under cover to work at a Country Club after being denied to so many others. Even when he was trying to be hired as a waiter, he was denied because of his color. "The maitre d' at one of the clubs refused to accept my application. Only an hour earlier, she had enthusiastically urged me to come right over for an interview."

     In this day and age, people are still treated unequally. So this idea about the AD is not only my thought, but accurate. In my group of friends, I'm considered equal. But in the whole population of the globe, I would be treated unequal, considering that I'm bisexual. So for myself, this idea is true to me.

     I wonder if other people have the same idea as I do about the AD.