ld 182). Americans today still believe in the Dream to some extent. They believe that if they work hard and apply all of their effort, they can become a great success in life. However, today there is still a distortion of the American Dream. Everyday there is thousands of marriages. These marriages are to symbolize the true love that two people show for each other. In marriage, one promises to stay faithful and to remain with their partner through all experiences. Nevertheless, to counter the bonds of marriage, there are hundreds of divorces each day. According to the Stepfamily Foundation, “one out of two marriages ends in divorce.” Another distortion of the Dream is peace. The following quote comes from a trivia box in Russell Ash’s book The Top 10 of Everything 1997. “There are countries with worse murder rates than the United States, but nowhere in the world has as many murders each year” (68). In 1997 there were approximately 24,000 murders, giving the United States a murder rate of nine murders per 100,000 people. Still today, many people are under the impression that the American Dream is unattainable. These people are correct. The American Dream has always been unattainable, thus the word dream. If people would create an “American Reality” rather than an American Dream many of their goals could and would be achievable. Americans need to understand that not everyone can become a multi-millionaire overnight or even in their entire life. They need to think realistically and set their mind on practical goals. Hopefully, one day, people will understand that impossible goals are impossible to reach and that is why those goals are called the American Dream. Bibliography Allen, Frederick Lewis. Only Yesterday An Informal History of the 1920s. New York: Harper & Row, 1931: 87. Ash, Russell. The Top 10 Of Everything 1997. New York: DK Publishing Inc., 1996: 68 Douglass, Robert. “For Granted&...
