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American Dream through the Youngers Family
The idea of the American Dream still has truth in today's time, even if it is wealth, love, or
fame. The thing that never changes about the American Dream is that everyone deserves something
in life and everyone, somehow, should strive to get it. Everyone in America wants to have some
kind of financial success in his or her lives. The American dream is said to be that each man have
the right to pursue happiness and strive for the beat. In the play "A Raisin in the Sun", the author
shows an African-American family struggling to get out of the poverty line, which is stopping them
from making financial stability, or the American Dream. Its main focus is on Walter's effort to
make it, or be somebody. She also shows how race, prejudice, and economic problems effect a black
mans role in his family, how he provides, and his identity. It is also said that that the Youngers
family dreams were unreal and they couldn't attain there dreams......

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