Comparison Of Crime And The American Dream
Essay Two In the book Crime and the American Dream there are many values that shape our country for the American heros (honest citizens who do honorable deeds for the society) and American villains (criminals who do great harms to the society). “The term American Dream was introduced in the early 1930s by a historian named James Truslow Adams to describe his vision of a society open to individual achievement” (Messner and Rosenfeld, 6). By the introducing this term to the American people it gave them a whole new meaning to the opportunities that they could achieve. By the American Dream “people were socialized to accept the desirability of pursuing the goal of material success, and they are encouraged to believe that the chances of realizing the dream are sufficiently high to justify
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This shows that the real villains are the people who couldn’t succeed in the american dream so in order for them to get by they have to rob from those who have become successful. While being robbed can be life changing experience that frightens you, “being robbed at gunpoint is cause for special concern, because the the robbery is much more likely to end with the victim’s death” (Messner and Rosenfeld, 22). I think that these people are the villains of the american dream because by them needing to get by “by any means necessary” they are destroying the american dream for someone else. The american dream is here for people to move away from their country and to liberate themselves from the clutches of their own country to come to ours for freedom and the ability to restore their life and make it how they have dreamt it to be. For someone to just come and take everything they have would destroy their life and destroy their motivation to become
This shows that the real villains are the people who couldn’t succeed in the american dream so in order for them to get by they have to rob from those who have become successful. While being robbed can be life changing experience that frightens you, “being robbed at gunpoint is cause for special concern, because the the robbery is much more likely to end with the victim’s death” (Messner and Rosenfeld, 22). I think that these people are the villains of the american dream because by them needing to get by “by any means necessary” they are destroying the american dream for someone else. The american dream is here for people to move away from their country and to liberate themselves from the clutches of their own country to come to ours for freedom and the ability to restore their life and make it how they have dreamt it to be. For someone to just come and take everything they have would destroy their life and destroy their motivation to become