The American Dream: The Death Of The American Dream

The American Dream can have many different variations; Some people believe you have to have millions of dollars and a huge mansion to achieve the american dream but that is not the case. In my opinion the American Dream is when a family can live comfortable without many worries, own a house and be able to support their family. Or for someone who is not family oriented, they could achieve the dream by being financially stable and being able to travel or have their dream job or whatever makes them happy. Overall the american dream is whatever is making the person happy and comfortable in their life situation. Now for the naysayers who have no hope and do not believe the american dream can be achieved in this day and age, I am going to be proving

Almost my entire family have personal stories on how they came from “Rags to Riches” so to speak. There is one story that I will never forget, and it is my father's story. He was born in Terceira, Azores, my dad has three other siblings along with his parents. My grandpa has been a dairymen his entire life and has constantly worked hard, because as they say, cows never take a day off therefore neither does the milkers and feeders. My grandmother would stay home and take care of her four children, there was two boys and two girls. The girls would stay home and clean the house, cook, garden, etc. While the boys would have to go to work at the dairy with their dad. My dad explained to me how many times he would leave school early starting at around 12 years of age because he had to go out and milk cows or farm. There were little luxuries that nowadays people take advantage of but my father never had. For example for many years my dad only had one pair of shoes and those were his church shoes, so every other day of the week he would have to walk around barefoot. His family also had rabbits and chickens but they were not allowed to eat the eggs or rabbits when they were butchered because they had to sell the eggs and rabbit meat to be able to buy necessities like floor and rice; in general anything they could not grow in their own garden. It’s surreal to think he went through all of that as a child until they moved to the United States in search of a better life or as some would call it “The American Dream” and they were able to achieve it. Now my dad owns his own dairy, owns a house with twenty acres that he farms, owns a boat, owns multiple vehicles, owns a trailer, and best of all, is able to support his wife and two children and is able to live