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An 8 page paper which examines how these texts reveal the continuing problems of prejudice in the America of the twentieth century, despite continued assurances that the American Dream can be attained by anyone, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. No additional sources are used.
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so good for everyone, it seemed, that the concept of the American Dream was born. In simplest terms, the American Dream, which has been forever woven into the ideological
tapestry of America, can be translated to mean "the good life" of respectability - a prestigious job, personal wealth, and lofty social status. This dream has no conditions on
it, which implies that it is there for anyones taking. All that is required is determination, hard work, and a desire to succeed. While America has always been
an attractive haven for immigrants who were seeking freedom from some type of oppression, the advancements in travel, most notably by air, made it even more so in the 1920s
and 30s as immigrants relocated to the United States in record numbers. Unfortunately for them, they would discover after their arrival that the American Dream was elusive and was
not attainable by people who werent white Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The worst-case capitalist scenario predicted by Karl Marx came true in America during the twentieth century, and stirred up the
prejudice that had never completely disappeared within its mythological melting pot of people and cultures. It was this capitalist reinforced prejudice that strongly influenced human perceptions, judicial justice and
dictated socioeconomic status. As the texts of Thomas Bells Out of This Furnace, James Goodmans Stories of Scottsboro and David Gutersons Snow Falling from Cedars demonstrate, aggressively pursuing the
American Dream meant abandoning ethnic heritage and compromising ones values in order to assimilate into the mainstream; but even then, the dream may not come true because in the capitalist
world, where everything is a commodity to be bought and sold for the highest price, appearances are everything. In the Pennsylvania steel towns of Thomas Bells semi-autobiographical novel, Out of
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