One of the key tools to achieving success in life are dreams, because they add guidance to one’s life. From small-scale to large-scale, people accomplish things on a daily basis. What sets people’s dreams apart from each other? Ambition. As defined by Oxford Dictionary, ambition is “a strong desire to do or achieve something.” As mentioned before, the complexity of dreams and ambitions can have various difficulty. Cohesively, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun, and American Denial provide examples of dreams from small-scale dreams to large-scale dreams; however, what determines the value of these dreams is not how elaborate they are or outsider’s opinions on their dream, but how important the dreamer’s passion is to them and how they …show more content…
Scout, the dreamer of the Finch family, has obstacles that stand in her way; for example, her father disapproves of her quest and she fears of what her journey will bring. In spite of this, she perseveres through these obstacles, and by the end of the story, her childhood dreams come true in an unexpected turn. For example, “His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears ‘Hey, Boo,’ I said.” (Lee, 29) When Scout finally reaches her lifelong dream of meeting Boo Radley, she becomes emotional with tears in her eyes. After all the crazy events she faced in her life, she finally sees what she's been imagining for so long. She valued her ambition so highly in her life, that she becomes awestruck when she finally sees Boo. While the other members of Maycomb only saw her dream as an adolescent phase, she saw this desire in a different light: Scout had her eyes on the prize and persisted through her setbacks ultimately resulting with …show more content…
Beneatha, an unemployed 20 year-old, has ambitions of pursuing a career as a doctor despite her race, gender, and economic struggles. Choosing a life-long career can have a large burden on someone.However, in the play the fate of beneatha’s career is left unknown. This dream still has value because of the obstacles she potentially faces: her race, gender, and social class all lead her away from her ambition. For example, “Well – I do – all right? – thank everybody! And forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all! (Pursuing him on her knees across the floor) FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME!” (1.1.123) Beneatha’s frustration with her family’s doubt in her abilities builds up and thus leads to her outbreak. She cries out in exasperation a fake apology for her dreams. This quote shows how much grit she has within to achieve. On the other hand, Walter does not believe in her, yet she has not given up yet. She still has the chance to pursue this dream if she digs dip to find the ambition to achieve. Her gender, race, social class, and family doubts have not held her