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American Dream/Sacrifice

Reflection:

America is known as “the Land of Opportunity” and the American Dream is a popular one for immigrants coming into this country as well as American-born citizens too. The ‘American Dream’ is best defined by the character Jay Gatsby’s life in the book The Great Gatsby. Going from a poor, or unknown, unglamorous person to a successful, wealthy and popular person is the stereotypical ‘rags to riches’ American Dream story that so many people strive for. The things that people sacrifice to achieve that American Dream are extreme, for immigrants coming to America they are potentially sacrificing their culture, abandoning their country in hopes of achieving the American Dream. The most often used examples of people who have achieved the American Dream are the Tycoons of the Gilded Age like Andrew Carnegie who was a Scottish Immigrant who became a rich philanthropist and built an entire empire in the early 20th

American Dream