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Reaching the American Dream
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” - Jack Kerouac

We are all dreaming about something, searching for something, but do we all want the same thing?

Some of us may be materialistic and search solely for objects. "You buy furniture. You tell yourself this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you." -Chuck Palahniuk.



“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” -Jack Kerouac



We are seen as people that can only help themselves..

"Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock....his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him." Shayna's reflection on the American character

Shayna's next wall about the American character