Erin Brockovich

The American dream is the ideology that if we work hard we will do well and be successful in life.

Erin Brockovich brings this idea to life as she works hard to become the successful woman that she

wants to be. This idea is emphasised by the fact that she is a single mother, poor and without much

of an education behind her and so has to defy all the odds to achieve the things she wants. The

idea is also further extended as not only does she work hard to gain success but helps people in the

process, implying that the american dream can help others aswell as ourselves and that our dreams

do not have to help only ourselves. The film Erin Brockovich is not entirely truthful as it promotes the

American dream through the Erin Brockovich story yet only shows the positive side, missing out the

more serious negative sides to the after effects of what actually happened.

The film deals with the concept of the american dream by looking into the many modern day

issues that stood in between the title character and achieving the dream. Erin Brockovich is a single

mother, trying to make enough money to support her children. After a ca

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