While watching “Maid in America” I really began to wonder about the so called “American Dream”. The main reason why people come from other countries is for the purpose of creating a better life for themselves and their family. They come here with the hope that they will be able to live happily in better conditions. However, in coming to America and reaching a better lifestyle they do not realize that they could easily loose sight of what is most important.
When watching Judith go back to Guatemala to see her daughters it really made me wonder why she ever left. Sure, everything might not have been as developed as in America but it was where she was happy with her family. I feel like in America we loose that sense of family in the materialistic value and importance we place on money and comfort. We choose work and making money over raising our kids and for what?
The American Dream is just that, it’s a dream. People aren’t satisfied with what they have so they seek something better for the future, but in the process their losing the present. In the following article it analyzes a story about Nola Kambanda, who is an immigrant seeking to live the American Dream. He instead ends up fighting for what little he can to help him feel happy but it’s not even a shadow of what he came looking for. He ends up alone and instead of rising with the hope he had placed in America he is overcome with just the need to survive in this country.
