Dreaming to Achieve Throughout the pieces of literature we as a class have read such as Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Federick Douglass, dreams become one of the values foreshadowed in these texts. There are three sides to dreaming. The dreaming that gets made into reality, the ones that never got lived through, and the ongoing dreams. In Of Mice and Men and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, we read the two sides to dreaming. The commonality in these two texts is the hopes and dreams of the characters give them the will to live. Dreaming Motivates people to achieve a better life. In the narrative story of Federick Douglass, his whole life is driven by this dream, this hope, that one day he …show more content…
My imagination ran and flowed and being so naive, I was easily influenced. Anything and everything inveigled a new dream, a new life. One month it was to be an actor, next month a singer, next month to be like the older people in my life, and so forth and so forth. Of course, these dreams never came true and were never to come true but being so young, it was okay to think so gullibly. Around the ages of 10-13, my dreams became more realistic and often developed with what was happening in that period of my life. Amid my parent’s divorce, I wished and hoped every night for the reunition of my family. I desired to be like my peers and to have a complete family, to proudly say both my parents were with me just as they did. I am still, even now mature and a young adult, wishing to have that family reunition. However, as I grow up my dreams become hopes that I long to become my reality one day. I want to live a successful life, to be stable in every aspect, and just to proudly say I lived my life to the fullest. My dreams are ongoing, and they do still change, and as I mature and grow older I know so will my