The American Dream

What is the American Dream? It is usually describe as the belief in freedom that allows all citizens and residents of America to achieve their goals in life through hard work. However, today in the USA the American dream is seen as someone who is wealth and gained that wealth themselves through hard work, even though the definition of the American Dream has changed throughout American History. The Dream was seen as an opportunity for people to achieve wealth and then some that they wouldn't achieve in there home country or for others the Dream was a place for their children to grow up have a good education and career opportunities that would make them wealth. For others the American Dream is a way to leave their respected countries from war, racism and for a new start or life. In the novels The Great Gatsby and A Raisin in the Sun the reader is showed before and after the American dream, in respect to each book, how life is between the two, and struggles that are encountered with the two. This clip is from the novel turned movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream an autobiographical by Hunter S. Thompson. The novel shows a drug filled romp through Las Vegas in 1970,showing the dark underbelly of "The American Dream". The speech that is being said is known as The "wave speech".