The american dream- The Jungle

As I mentioned previously in my other little blogs, The American Dream has been a reoccuring theme in a lot of these books. While reading the Jungle I slowly learned that this book also has what these other books see as the american dream. For example, I believe in my second most recent blog, I wrote about the day of the locust, mainly the American dream because I thought that was a very important concept in that book. Faye Greener, one of the main characters in the novel a day in the locust, only wants to be a star in hollywood which in the time and in the novel was pretty much every young person’s dream. She would even wear clothes that made her look like these young hollywood studs even though she wasn’t really one. Another example is Of Mice and Men. In, of Mice and Men the american dream is that if you work hard you get a lot money and retire in a nice place and I would say this American Dream is really similar to my book the Jungle. In, The Jungle, the main purpose Jurgis moves is to pursue the American Dream, the belief that if he works very hard he will acquire all these riches and become extremely wealthy. Also when he moves he expects to find a land full of equality, acceptance, opportunity, and last but most importantly, freedom. Basically the reason I felt this was important to blog about is because this has been a theme in now three books and I think that’s interesting that all these american novels include the American Dream.