The American Dream
In the early 1950s, the American dream was a dream shared by the entire nation. The stereotypical family included a mother, father, two children and a pet, all living in suburbia, USA. Every day the father would leave for work in the morning, and mother stayed home, cooked, and cared for the kids. Each family included a boy and a girl. The boy would have his hair neatly parted down the middle, and the girl in pigtails. At night, everyone would sit around the dinner table and discuss what had happened in the day gone by. But during the last fifty years, Americans realised that their dream of a perfect life was completely different. Comic entertainment, such as The and American Beauty depicts how such a vision has turned into a laughing matter.The Simpsons was the first cartoon series to send up this so called ‘American Dream’. The family consists of Homer, a husband, father, safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, bowler, beer drinker, astronaut, small business owner and dreamer, and makes it all look easy. Marge, a happy homemaker and mother of three. Bart, a misunderstood. Wrongly pegged as an underachiever and troublemaker. Lisa, who is only 8 and already reads at a 14th grade level, and has written a number
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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