American history is glorifed. Our founding fathers are portrayed almost to the stauts of hte parthenon of Greek Gods. Their faults, mistakes, and shortcomings faded from memory."And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of the thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners."- A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn (10)
A People's History of the United States began with a shocking account of the murder of the Arawaks, and how the first American settlers treated the Native Americans. As mean, or closeminded as the Puritans may have been, they cannot compare to the absolute genocide that was orchestrated by Columbus.
I'm unsure of my feelings on the reading thus far. The only conclusion I can draw at this point is that "The American Dream" can be a destructive force as well.
Paige, You are on your way! Now you have a question to ask again and again: When is the American Dream a constructive force and when a destructive one? Or, for whom was it each? LDL
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