American Dream Essay

All right… 

I'm gonna bring it back.  

New…new director's cut here - James Bowles, and this is my director's cut for my paper regarding "The Bluest Eye" and Breaking Bad.  

I thought this assignment is really cool, because it let me kind of delve into my past pick and show that I really loved, so to answer the question about how I decided on what I was synthesizing more information from "The Bluest Eye" with Breaking Bad has been one of my favorite shows, since I watched it, I've watched a few times at this point. 

And I′ve showed on the character of Walter Wright really, really fascinating and because of how interested I was in the show, I found myself making these comparisons, drawing these comparisons between characters and books that I read, characters that I see all around, and between Walter White, because he was such a big influential character in my life, and I think that was really just important in why I chose the show for masse.  

So, you're gonna see me. I'm doing some general writing, editing, fixing in the background of this, but I really just want to kind of run through these questions and make sure that I have everything answered. So, my initial idea, I think, came a lot from that really pivotal scene in "The Bluest Eye", where Cholly can does this unspeakable act to his daughter, but in some twisted skewed way it is out of love. 

And you see throughout the entirety of the book Cholly as someone that really has wanted to be loved and wanted to exhibit love, but doesn't know how to conduct himself well enough to do so, and, as a result of that, the mannerisms in the way that he tries to exhibit love are just horrible, and they don't really match up with how people that were born into a loving family or taking care from a young age are known to exhibit love, because he really hasn't had that. 

So, I think, that was really interesting and seeing how these two people from very different backgrounds you know. You have Cholly, who was born and abandoned, and then the first time he grew intimate with a woman, he had this whole emasculating experience, and you know Walter White, who has a loving family in the beginning of the show, but they slip away from him, because of the selfishness you can see how it can really happen to anyone, and that's why I thought that a really big part of the American Dream isn't discussed as much these days. 

Is how people really do strive to have a family or have a group of people that they can rely on beginnings of it love to and feel loved by. And so, in terms of how I came to that question, how they came to what my working definition of the American Dream was. It really came as a result of what I think has happened, and what I have seen along, what I think people hold as a value today. 

And also it just felt so fitting for these two totally different characters, because they were their own pitfalls sure, but a really big cracks of both of the stories is that they do want to feel they're just not totally sure how or something from their past gets in the way of them exhibiting love and because of that they have a lot of trouble with it. And so, that's really how I came to this definition, and I think that was a very big, big part of it. 

 And let's see, what else we have to run through…um…my mindmap really helped with my thesis. I think, it painted or not really painted, because they did it digitally, but it gave me a really good representation of everything if I was trying to kind of work through, and so I think, because I had that it was very helpful…um…just in kind of getting my thoughts out there, and being able to work through them better. So, I think that was really, really great to do. I think, that was an interesting part of the project that I hadn't thought about doing before. 

And having that visual representation was really great. I didn't really get a chance to peer at it with anyone, so I can't exactly answer that question which is unfortunate, because I'm sure it would have been very helpful, but at the same time, I think, the fact that I got to just go over this on my own and really delve into it, and do it by myself. I was able to really explore my own ideas and sort of being kind of led to stray or off-task by anyone else's.  

So, I think, well…it was not the best thing that they do get fear, I did, I think, there's also some slight benefit to it if you will in the sense that I′ve got to really focus just on what I was thinking, and not get caught up in or kind of go off task and think about what someone else, who said anything it really talked about my points, which I think though again not the best thing was to some degree beneficial. 

So, now we're really just gonna see some general everything going on fixing things up adding. I have all my quotes fold for the bottom of the page. Then you should come back to…um …really I don't think there's much else to talk about. I like this assignment again. I'm very sorry this is so late and I hope you enjoyed it.  

Thank you.