Sacrifice In The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Money is an important aspect of the American Dream because it is often associated with achieving your dream and for many people, it is a big part of their dream. Money is also what paves the way for people to achieve their American Dream. Money helps inspire the American Dream because it provides the necessary resources, opportunity, and security to pursue your dream. In The Great Gatsby, Jay can’t pursue his dream of marrying and creating a life with Daisy until he has built a life where he has money to support his dream. We see money inspire in another way in Behold the Dreamers, money is part of what Jende wants as his dream, and that is what helps motivate him to work hard to be able to provide a good life for his children. Adversely, we …show more content…

We also see money destroy the dream in the “Let America Be America Again”, this destroys the dream because it mentions how the people who did the hard work and built the country never achieved their dream while the people who didn’t work and just relied on money often get many of their dreams. The next key element of the American Dream is what you are willing to sacrifice. What you are willing to sacrifice plays a major role in the American Dream, because everything we want has a cost, and you must be willing to pay the price of your dreams. In the Pixar short “Alike” there is a man and a child, and the child experiences joy, but the man is unable to because he is doing what everyone else is doing. When he does like the child and sacrifices fitting in and being accepted and the same as everyone else, he feels joy too. The sacrifice he made is like the sacrifice everyone has to make to achieve their …show more content…

Sacrifice can destroy your dream because it is hard to give up something to get something else and this can deter people from following their dreams. Another important part of the American Dream is opportunity. Without opportunity, nothing can happen. Opportunity inspires the American Dream. Because if you can take your opportunities and circumstances and make the best out of them, they can help lead you to great things. We see this in Gatsby when Jay takes the opportunity of meeting Dan Cody, and this leads him to many things that help him to achieve his wealth and work towards his dream with Daisy. We can also see how some opportunities destroy the American Dream. We see opportunities destroy the American Dream because opportunities aren’t always fair, and this can lead some to not be able to achieve their dreams. In Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo, Mbue Jende seizes his opportunity and works hard with everything he has but is still unable to get his dream. The final element of the American Dream is how hard you work to achieve your

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