Douglass proves the American Dream

The American Dream is the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity, and a life of personal happiness and material comfort, traditionally held to be available for every American. Everyone’s American Dream is different. There is not one dream for all Americans. Everyone chooses their own destiny in life and that is what they should set forth to achieve. Nevertheless, the American Dream was taken from slaves. They were basically brainwashed that they could not live out any dreams. Frederick Douglass is a prime example that anyone can live out their American Dream. He was determined to achieve his American Dream by struggling to survive, fighting for his freedom and equal rights and opportunity. Many of these issues established the American Constitution.

Douglass endured many struggles. For Douglass, living was a struggle. The painful declarations of ignorance of his birth date, and even the identity of his father was a struggle. When he collapsed and was ill from sunstroke his master Covey kicked and lashed him to get up. Recouping was a struggle. When he was stripped of his pride, faith, and hope, and was completely bewildered, it was a struggle to continue. He also f

Douglass’s long journey toward freedom is a reminder that freedom cannot be granted; it must be wrestled and won. It was self-determination. Douglass was forbidden to read, that ban became a remarkable and life-long process of self-education. Douglass was beaten which caused him to eventually fight back- self-emancipation. We may all fail before we succeed. Douglass’s journey taught American’s never to give up. All the “hard knocks” will eventually open a door. Douglass put everything he possible could in his life and got everything he possible could out of his life.

A struggle can be described as being locked inside a dark box and trying to escape. What can a person in this circumstance do? He is going to kick, scream, move around, push, search for an object to poke it with and continue trying different things until finally a crack is in the box. They’ve progressed, continuing to target this crack until it opens wider and wider. They’re continuing to progress until they finally succeed in getting out. This illustration is a metaphor for Douglass’s life. He was confident in becoming a free man and with this attitude; he finally escaped slavery, and then bought his freedom later.

Blacks were free, but there is a difference in equality and freedom.

“he is whipped oftenest, who is whipped easiest; and the slave who has the courage to stand up for himself against the overseer, although he may have many hard stripes at the first, becomes, in the end, a freeman, even though he sustains the formal relation of a slave.” (Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, p. 95).

ought an inner struggle: man vs. self. He had to decide whether to stand up for himself or obey every order. He eventually fought Covey back and realized that,

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