Jeremy

=**American Dreams**=

Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. -Langston Hughes

**My Kinda Town**



**How Dorothy's Ruby Slippers Came To Be Strung On A Wire**

**electric blue eye**

"I can't go to school no more. And I thought maybe you could help me." "Help you how? Tell me. Don't be frightened" "My eyes." "What about your eyes?" "I want them blue."

Soaphead pursed his lips, and let his tongue stroke a gold inlay. He thought it was at once the most fantastic and most logical petition he had ever received. here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty...A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. -The Bluest Eye, pg. 174 Toni Morrison

When creating this page I wanted to look at not the “American Dream” but American’s dreams. We begin the display looking at a poem by Langston Hughes which shows the barrenness without dreams, and therefore shows their importance. Second is an image of Chicago that represents a kind of tangible dream. At one point a city this beautiful was intangible, but architects visualized a beautiful city and made it a reality. It is the dream that is then made into a reality. The next picture is one of ruby slippers. This deals with the imaginary: the dream that is not so much an aspiration but a fantasy, but we still dream about it anyway. It symbolizes the innocent dreams we have as children. The last picture is one of a blue eye which is a piece transitioning us into the quote from //The Bluest Eye//. This image is a representation of what Pecola wants in //The Bluest Eye.// She is a self loathing little girl who wishes she had blue eyes. It is a juvenile dream that can have no tangible or satisfying outcome making it all the more painful. We all have dreams that we know are intangible but think them anyway. The quote shows a young girls dream to attain the unattainable, and she desires to not be herself so much that she goes to Soaphead, a man she fears, showing her desperation.

American Overindulgence