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The American Dream In Fear And Loathing In Lass-Vegas

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Today in 21st centuries, world becoming smaller and smaller. It has been trending to move one country to another for opportunity and successes. The American Dream is one of the best examples in the case of migration. It had been flowing in 1960 and 1970 that people came to America for hope of successes. Thomas’s “Fear and Loathing in Lass-Vegas” has a story of himself and his Attorney whose went to the city of sun-shine to achieve their goal of the American Dreams. Lass-Vegas the city of sun-shine which has been always known for excessive and luxury culture. Excesses amount of drugs and alcohols was a most important part of the journey. He spent almost all money behind the drugs, alcohols and casino to feel the American Dream. As a result of …show more content…

America knows for the land of opportunity for the ages. People came to America for goal of success. America has a trend that people achieved the happy successive lifestyle on the base of their efforts. Thomson and his attorney made the journey to Vegas to find their American Dream. Thomson chooses to Lass Vegas for his Journey as a symbol of excessive lifestyle and luxury. American Dream in Vegas was clearly explained the dream of luxury, richness, gambling, and excess life style. Writer Russell explains in “A savage Place”, “ Fear and Loathing in las Vegas simultaneously function as an example of one writer’s attempt to create perfect prose as well as an explication at lass Vegas as a materialistic, artificial American Dreams” (Russell,43). Thomson felt the American Dream with his Attorney, who was immigrant, on the way of Vegas. Full of car trunk with drugs and alcohol was define their journey to American Dreams in Vegas. He mentions in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, “We had two bags of grass, seventy five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high- Powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…… and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls” (Thompson, 4). They thought they could find an American Dream in expensive …show more content…

People define the American Dream on the base of their necessity and wisdom. Thomson and his attorney made the journey of Vegas to find their American Dream. Furthermore, during the journey, they felt how American counter culture distracted common people’s American Dream. Thomson describes that the excessive use of drugs and alcohol, which made easily distract to immigrant from their real goal of American Dream. He spent all his money behind hotel, transportation, drugs, restaurant, and on the bar which are normally the symbol of excessive life style while it was completely opposite of the normal people’s American Dream. Writer Novoa explains in “Fear and Loathing on the Buffalo Trail”, “As a believer in America as the land of opportunity and tolerance, his bitterness about the distortion the dream has suffered, about what the term has come to signify, is extreme”(Novoa, 39). Thomson thought they found only materialistic American Dream in Vegas. He felt that there are no rules is only one rule in Vegas. Everybody broke the rules, while the other side America is known for its legal structure and legal action of the crime. He says, “We had sampled almost everything else and now-yes it was time for a long shot of ether. And then do the next hundred miles in horrible, slobbering sort of spatic stupor” (Thompson, 4). Taking drugs and alcohol and driving a car is a

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