be trying to pursue the American Dream. While they all have different

ideas of just exactly what the American Dream is, they all know

precisely what they want. For some, the American Dream sounds so

enticing that they have traveled across the world to achieve their

goal. They work hard to fit in and succeed, but, as in the case of Mr.

Shimerda, are not always successful.

One girl who was chasing the American Dream was Lena Lingard,

a small farm girl from a poverty-stricken family. Lena had one thing

on her mind: money. To her the American Dream was wealth. She wanted

freedom from worry about where her next meal would come from, or how

she would pay for a new dress. Lena began her journey to wealth by

becoming one of the many hired girls in the town of Black Hawk. There

she was apprentice to a dressmaker and before long began to show great

potential. She soon began making money with her newfound talent, and

used this money not to help herself, but to benefit her family. Lena

spent her free time buying clothes for them, and paid some of their

bills. She also went to many dances over the summer months. Wi

she asked for the help of Jim Burden, her closest neighbor. Every day

began to do very well in her new surroundings. She helped out with all

any case, dreams are very important to people, whether they be the

American Dream. The Shimerdas came all the way from Bohemia and

different plans. She did not listen to anything that they said about

needed to learn the customs of this new country. With this in mind,

mother she would be and could not wait to be married. When she thought

he had back home. He was lonesome and miserable most of the time, but

nine children, all well behaved. Antonia's American Dream of having

her way of the American Dream. She was determined to reach her goal

did not have one thing in America that pleased him as much as things

travel great distances or change their whole lifestyles to succeed. In

with a baby to care for, but this did not keep her down for long. She

of her beautiful dresses, many of the young men began to notice her as

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Approximate Word count = 836
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)