California Pursuit Of Life

Around the world, there are many countries, states, cities, and communities that live in poverty and cannot do much based on their surroundings and resources. Many people travel over to California in order to seek positive opportunities that will allow them to build a new life and succeed in their future. In the book California Dreams and Realities by Jack Solomon and Sonia Maasik, there are different selections which describe reasons on why people look to California as “the pursuit of life” such as jobs, land, and luxury. However, there are deeper reasons and symbols that give California the image of a great place. Freedom, wealth, and experience make California the start of great opportunities and live up to the ideal “dream life” that it
The slogan “The Pursuit of Life” basically refers to a quest of living and a search of someone’s well being. Many migrants came to California in search for wealth and property, for example, “The Spanish settlers of the eighteenth century, as well as the American infiltrators and gold rushers of the mid-nineteenth century, identified California with risk, danger, excitement, and the chance for acquiring fortune” (Spooner 45). The fact that California was known to have gold made it an opportunity for many settlers to come over to California to create a new life and search for as much wealth as they could find. People would go above and beyond limits in order to take care of family and to be somewhat content with their life. In the selection Proofs, Rodriguez shows that “People went back and forth. People came up for work. People went back home, to mama or wife or village. The poor had mobility” (69). California had enough opportunities to where people would travel back and forth in search for wealth to take home to their families to make sure they are living well