The Role That Hope and Optimism Plays in Of Beetles and Angels The book is called Of Beetles and Angels. It is written by Mawi Asgedom. It was written in 2001. It’s about a family of refugees that came to america for a better life. The main character is Mawi, two big characters are Tewolde and Haileab. Hope and optimism play a big role in this story. First, when the Asgedoms come to America they are very hopeful and optimistic about America and want a much better life. Mawi says, “So it was that my father started talking about a paradise called Amerikha, a distant land where everyone had a future. He told us money grew on trees.” page 11. In other words they think life is amazing in America. They are very hopeful that they too will be rich and have lots money and have a new and better life. Other refugees have also heard about America: “They say that everyone there drives big cars and lives in big houses. Money flows through streets of glimmering gold. And everyone lives long, easy lives.” Page 11. That quote came from a refugee friend talking about how great america is and how they will have a better life there. …show more content…
Second, the boys hope that they will be able to fit in with everyone else and not be bullied.
Some kids said this: “African boodie-scratcher! Black donkey!“ Page 34. Those are some of the things that kids at school said to them. They are very hopeful that it will end and that they can become friends with all the other kids at school. Another instance of him being bullied: “Without slowing, Tewolde leaped up, cocked back his hand, and smashed it against the side of Sam’s head.” Page 36. Mawi was getting bullied and couldn’t fight back and hoped that someone would help him. Tewolde came to help his brother and to teach sam a lesson hoping he would stop picking on
Mawi. Lastly, they’re hopeful that Mawi and his siblings will get a good education and get into a good college. Mawi’s parents say on page 33: “Right now, we are among the poorest in the land. Neither your mother nor I will do good work because we lack schooling. We will have to work backbreaking jobs, we will never fully understand our rights, and others will take advantage of us.” They are talking about how important school is. They need to go to school so they can get a good job and hopefully make a lot of money. Mawi’s dad was sometime skeptical about how much Mawi read but Mawi really wanted to get a good education and learn a lot. After Mawi’s dad told him to go outside this was Mawi’s response: “But I kept reading. I read thousands of pages of week and cleared out whole sections of the wheaton public library.” Page 110. He understands how important school is. He reads as much as possible because he doesn’t want to have to work the same jobs as his parents. Hope and optimism play a big role in Of Beetles and Angels. First, the Asgedoms are very hopeful and optimistic about their new life in America. Second, the boys are hopeful that they will fit in with the other kids at school. Lastly, mawi and his family are hopeful that mawi and his siblings will get a really good education. Next time you are a faced with a tough situation think about Mawi and his family and how hope and optimism helped him go from being a refugee to a Harvard graduate.
The American dream is the belief that anyone, regardless of birthplace, social class, or economic class, can attain success in the American society. Sadly, countless people will never achieve success in this society because they are foreign born. In Warren St. John’s book Outcasts United, St. John sheds light onto the numerous hardships that the tiny American town of Clarkston faces when thousands of refugees attempt to create a brand-new life there. At first Clarkston stood completely divided by original residents and refugees, but it wasn’t until the refugees and old residents saw past their physical differences of language, culture, and past life experiences that Clarkston began to thrive. Although the majority of projects started out helping
In 'Made You Mine, America' Ali Zarrin describes his coming to the USA as a teenager to study and find himself a better future. It was a struggle for him to cope with the differences from his native country in the Middle East: America was to be the country of dreams and possibilities, but he had to realize it had the poor and homeless people as well.
America has always seen as the symbolic ideal country of prosperity and equality. This is the reason why people come to America hoping to become successful, but in matter of fact we all have an equal plan field to be successful is not entirely true. For there are social boundaries that keep use limited based upon our own status. Whether we are born of a low class or of a high class the possibility of economic mobility in a sense are predetermined by two factors of social class and success together they both affecting one’s another opportunity of success. In order to achieve success, we must know that it is made up of two main concepts and they are fortune and position.
Maria de Jesus and Rene did not live in poverty in Mexico but rather had comfortable lives with their grandmother where their mothers would send money and packages. Although the children lived comfortably and had no reason to leave, they missed their mothers and their “American dream” was to reunite with them. The children did have the notion of America being this great, big, beautiful place in which they could have everything they could ever possibly desire, yet the piece that completed this perfect image was to be reunited with their family. However, not all American dreams are similar. As mentioned in Michael Light and Dimeji Togunde’s article “The Mexican Immigration Debate: Assimilation and Public Policy,” there are several factors that could lead to people wanting to migrate, including socio-economical, cultural and demographic reasons. American dreams are a result of what the person feels they lack the
Time and time again, the society has put in force political and social ideals of America greatly affecting the American Dream for many. Every American resident has his or her own definition of “achieving the American Dream”. However, all American Dreams are common, in part, that all believers are drawn to the desire to go above their current social class and improve their way of life. Although many people try to achieve their own American Dream, the society possess ideals that negatively affect the American Dream for both Americans and immigrants.
“Victims of bullies suffer the psychological consequences all the way until, middle age, with higher levels of depression, anxiety, and suicide, new research shows,” claimed Karen Kaplan. Her article can relate to a character named Yoda. “Yoda was lying across the bench on his stomach his wrists tied together with duct tape. His jeans and boxers had been yanked down. His butt cheeks had been taped together too,” quoted from page 69 by Anderson. Anderson wrote that part of the book to show that kids can be mean for no reason. Yoda didn’t deserve to be treated like that and the characters said it was “messing around”. Messing around won’t always be taken lightly. Karen Kaplan also stated “The immediate ill effects of bullying have been well documented with experts increasingly seeing it as a form of child abuse.” We don’t want our children to have mental illness. So encouraging kids to read fiction is school can lower these rates of bullying. Kids are our future and we don’t want our future bitter and
America is the land with the most dreamers. America is the land of opportunity and equality. In America your dreams can be fulfilled if you work hard to achieve your goals. The American dream to most is, to be wealthy and to be able to afford anything. Wealth is a plus in life because you can afford expensive items that do not necessarily have a use, but it does not necessarily matter how hard you try or how much you spend you can not buy happiness. Although being wealthy can make you seem happy on the outside, on the inside you would not be as happy as you seem. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author shows how being wealthy will not make you happy. Many people have voiced their opinions of the America dream.
Since the 19th century, America became a place where millions of people aspire to immigrate intensively. In order to pursuit a better life, freedom, and equality, people have to leave their hometowns and family, deal with uncertainty. Why were so many people willing to leave their family and go to the United States for pursuing their American Dreams? The most important reason that people chose to immigrate to America was they believed that they had opportunities to earn a better life. No matter how hard they tried, their lives are barely improved. Therefore, people were dissatisfied and despaired with their own countries since their efforts did not pay off. However, reality was cruelly destroying the path to the dream, additionally; people
America is often known as the land of opportunity, a place where you can be free. Many Immigrants came to America so that they could have a greater possibility at succeeding in life. Immigrants took a leap of faith when coming to America, for some it worked out well but for others they had a difficult time here. Despite the struggles that the immigrants encountered such as; standing out from others, being separated from their families, and breaking their culture, the immigrants are still grateful to be in America because they were in better conditions than they were in their home land. When viewing interviews or looking at an immigrant’s perspective you get many responses to being in America, some major things that stood out were the amount of freedom the immigrant had, and the age of the immigrant. These two things had a huge impact on the opinion of America from an Immigrants point of view.
Many years ago, people have immigrated to a new world where they can hope for a more beautiful existence, for the wealth, for the freedoms, for the better opportunities and most importantly, for the American Dreams.
America is said to be the land of opportunities, freedom and equality for all. People began migrating to America since over 70 years ago in search of a better life. In earlier times Europeans migrated to the New World/America with the desire of making something better of themselves. Some people migrated to obtain land, and some migrated for an opportunity to live a more prosperous life. In the last ten years immigration to American has been composed of mainly Mexican immigrants. Many people for decades have seen America as a wonderful country that offers everything one needs. Since American is perceived as such utopia those people suffering of poverty, corruption, and/or violence in their country have a desire to move to America and establish a new life here. The United States (USA) today is composed of over 11 million illegal immigrants from all over the world, but mainly Mexico.
Americans take many things for granted. For the majority of the population, life is relatively mild. People are normally not rich, but not poor, not ecstatically happy, but not too depressed either. One might say that the population generally has it easy, as compared to a large percentage of the rest of the world. It is for this reason that a great many people from other countries immigrate here. They are seeking a better life. Often, however, they get mistreated. Like the Mexican immigrants, who arrive here, only to be treated unfairly because of few opportunities, American prejudice, and Americanization. They do not come here to do harm, or to take advantage of Americans, or to do anything but find something better than their current situation. However, their experience here is often not as good as it could be.
The main character Jurgis migrates to America looking to start a new or better life, but in the end faced many hardships, and endures many difficult jobs. Sinclair writes, “So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed. If one could only manage to get the price of passage, he could count his troubles at an end.”(Sinclair 23). This quote from The Jungle displays what the “American Dream” came to be. The overflow of immigrants in the 1900’s left America citizens jobless, homeless and caused a skyrocket in the unemployment rate. If the American government does not properly address the immense number of immigrants fleeing from their home countries, the United States could face something similar to the Great Depression. There are only so many jobs available, and if the amount of immigrants coming into the U.S. annually stays at this growing rate, there is no hope for the failing
People will journey far and wide, traverse the entire continent, suffer all manner of pain and suffering, if they believe that, in the end, they will be rewarded. That is why it comes as no surprise when people from other countries struggle to get to America, believing the ancient tale of "the American Dream", convinced that they will finally make it big in this land of riches. But they find out it is not like that.
The American Dream can obliterate any prospect of satisfaction and does not show its own unfeasibility. The American dream is combine and intensely implanted in every structure of American life. During the previous years, a very significant number of immigrants had crossed the frontier of the United States of America to hunt the most useful thing in life, the dream, which every American human being thinks about the American dream. Many of those immigrants sacrificed their employments, their associations and connections, their educational levels, and their languages at their homelands to start their new life in America and prosper in reaching their dream.