Indledning
If you believe in the American Dream, then you are convinced that you can change your life for the better, as long as your work ethic reflects your goals.
The American Dream is not restricted by social status, but only the determination of the individuals seeking it.
Many people claim to be living the American Dream but it is, in reality, a very fictive term, as “the American Dream” can mean various things, depending on what is desired by the certain individual.
In the past, the typical American Dream was to own a house in the suburbs with a white-picket fence and space for the whole family – but this seems to be changing.
In this paper I will attempt, through my analysis of the three given texts, to highlight what the mainstream American Dream is today, and how the expression has changed with the generations.
With this, I will try to distinguish the cause of the various changes, and relate them to today’s society.
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Uddrag
The text is sectioned in paragraphs, each with an argument of proof that people are beginning to prefer living in the bigger cities, which contradicts the old preference of a life in suburbia –
“Census statistics released last Wednesday show that fewer people are buying single-family homes, too: the seasonally adjusted annual rate of single-family house sales in March was 384,000, 13.3 percent lower than the same month last year.”
The data gives the reader a sense of dependability, and this makes it easy to trust what the author is saying. Many of the figures have to do with past and future plans for the construction industry,
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