American Dream
This is the belief that anyone can achieve success through hard work.
What is the American Dream?
This phrase in the Declaration of Independence connects to the right to seek personal fulfillment.
What is the Pursuit of Happiness?
This term describes someone who works hard to become successful on their own.
What is a self-made man?
This character tells the story of Gatsby.
Who is Nick Carraway?
This famous inventor kept trying even after failing many times before successfully inventing the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This novel shows that money and success don’t always lead to happiness.
What is The Great Gatsby?
Gatsby believes he will find happiness by achieving this.
What is winning Daisy’s love?
Gatsby tries to become a self-made man by doing this.
What is changing his name and bootlegging?
This symbol represents Gatsby’s hope and dream for the future.
What is the green light?
He grew up in Akron, Ohio, faced family struggles, and became one of the greatest basketball players in the NBA.
Who is LeBron James?
This character works hard to become rich but never truly finds happiness or acceptance.
Who is Jay Gatsby?
Esch’s happiness is tied less to wealth and more to these two things.
What are family and survival?
In Salvage the Bones, Esch and her family show that success also depends on this.
What is helping and supporting each other?
Gatsby throws parties to try to achieve this.
What is Daisy's attention?
He grew up in Detroit, suffered severe poverty and bullying, and worked hard to become a world-famous rapper with multiple Grammy Awards.
Who is Eminem?
This novel challenges the idea that anyone can succeed through hard work by showing how poverty and disaster make it harder.
What is Salvage the Bones?
In The Great Gatsby, wealth does not guarantee happiness because of this.
What is the carelessness of rich people?
Gatsby shows that being self-made can be hard because of this.
What is social class and privilege?
These characters’ carelessness lead to Gatsby’s death.
Who are Tom Buchannan and Daisy?
This immigrant moved to the U.S. with nothing. He worked harder than anyone else, becoming immensely successful in bodybuilding and acting in movies like The Terminator, Terminator: Judgement Day, and Predator(1987).
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
The truth of this myth is that ambition, talent, or hard work alone cannot guarantee success in America.
What is the reality of the American Dream
Both novels show that happiness is not guaranteed because of problems outside a person’s control.
What is that life and difficult events can make happiness hard to reach?
Both novels show that working hard is not always enough to succeed because of these factors.
What are luck, family background, and social class?
The novel shows that money and hard work don’t always bring happiness because of this.
What is the unfairness and selfishness of people?
This famous author, who wrote one of the most famous books ever, grew up in severe poverty in England. She struggled with depression after her mother died. She went through a failed marriage and years of unemployment. Instead of finding a job, she wrote a book, and after many many rejections, one publisher decided to print it, and it sold over 600 million copies worldwide.
Who is J.K Rowling?