The American Dream in Film and Print

             "The American Dream is, part, responsible for a great deal of crime and violence because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living."
             The American Dream is simply a myth. It's not possible for a growing population of six billion people to act in the way that Americans have come to expect. The Earth can't take it. It is impossible for everybody to struggle to get whatever they visualize and the final product is a superior life for everybody. The American Dream is an illusion. Yet, we still believe we can make that dream a reality, so we do whatever it takes to obtain it, creating "a great deal of crime and violence." The movie A Simple Plan, the New York Times article When Money is Everything Except Hers by Dirk Johnson, and the autobiographical essay Daddy Tucked the Blanket by Randall Williams, all exemplify the crime and violence created because people feel that the country owes them not only a living but a good living."
             If the title of the movie A Simple Plan could be changed, I would call it the American Dream in a Gym Bag. Everything about that movie has to do with the American Dream, in other word, money. The movie takes place in the woods of Minnesota, where three men come across a plane that had crashed. Not only did they find a corpse in the plane, they also found a gym bag with over four million dollars in it. They had found the America Dream. Now that dream was not going to come that easy, because the three men didn't agree on what to do with the money. All of them were for keeping it, but only one of them got to keep it. The plan was to keep the money until spring when the snow melted and they found the plane, after that, they would see what happened and then split the money if everything went well, meaning that no one was looking for the money. It may sound like a simple plan but the three men eventually started disagreeing and mistrusting one another. Something that started out so beau...

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