What defines an American? An American is someone who is free to go on their own path and strive for what they want, knowing that they can accomplish their goal.
One of the great things about America is the freedom to choose your own path and live your life to your standards. To be free of the restriction and oppression of the former land.
Many immigrants from this land were people with dreams and hopes of a future to be free of what they had left behind. in the poem “The New Colossus” when the author says “give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”she saw the statue of liberty she saw freedom and opportunity to start living the life she wants. An example of of this would Goerge from Of Mice and Men. The author quotes that george's dream is to “Have a little house and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs.” He believes in his dream…show more content… Being an American gives you diversity and experience. It gives a huge sense of culture as America is a place full of immigrants that give out their morals, life experiences, and differences like Anzia Yezierska. She comes to she is confident in what she will bring as she says, “What my father and mother never had a chance to give out in Russia I would give out to America.” In that quote she shows that she will help give out structure to America helping it stand.
It also gives new sense of direction as in many of the essays it tells of how America is a place that doesn't confine does not restrict like what J Hector St. de Crevecoeur says he says that America has “Tended to regenerate for itself new laws, a new mode of living a new social system. Here they have become men. In Europe they were so many useless plants, wanting vegetative mould and refreshing showers.” He felt that, here, he could now find his way to where he could always see what was ahead of him rather than sitting and waiting for something to happen.
