Part 1--Dave(Jianbo) Zhao--Cunning Lair and American Dream
For me American dream is an unfair opportunity that the cunning lair is easier to achieve success than the hard-working people who spent their life working like a horse.
The reason that the American dream makes me feel this way is all start with a news story about the fake heiress in New York city called Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey. This young girl using her lies building up a fake identity which allows her access to so many resources which eventually lead her to success. Just like many normal people in the world, Anna was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her father is a truck driver and her mother is a cashier at a food store, and both are very typical working class in the society. Compared to blue collar workers, their starting point is basically the same. Ironically, Anna didn’t work at all like other blue-collar workers, but eventually she is more successful than any other workers. According to the Forbes the top paid blue-collar worker has an average salary of $32.67 per hour, and they will only have $23,000 annually left over after they paid for the basic life spent. 
The value of the left over is extremely insignificant to Anna’s total asset. Her weekly cost of the trip to Morocco is approximately three times bigger than the blue-collar worker annually leftover which is $60,000. As a 20 years old young lady, she processes so many assets than any other peers, and all the fortune was based on a fake identity. On her hearing she said that “I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything.” She is so realistic that she knew that only with the hardworking and the opportunity won’t be able to give her the life she wants. So, she is looking to find a shortcut that she can have everything with a lie.
Therefore, my point is that the lies can be even more powerful than the spirit of hard-working on the way to pursue the great American dream which is an illusion filled with unfair opportunity.
The reason that the American dream makes me feel this way is all start with a news story about the fake heiress in New York city called Anna Sorokin, aka Anna Delvey. This young girl using her lies building up a fake identity which allows her access to so many resources which eventually lead her to success. Just like many normal people in the world, Anna was not born with a silver spoon in her mouth. Her father is a truck driver and her mother is a cashier at a food store, and both are very typical working class in the society. Compared to blue collar workers, their starting point is basically the same. Ironically, Anna didn’t work at all like other blue-collar workers, but eventually she is more successful than any other workers. According to the Forbes the top paid blue-collar worker has an average salary of $32.67 per hour, and they will only have $23,000 annually left over after they paid for the basic life spent. The value of the left over is extremely insignificant to Anna’s total asset. Her weekly cost of the trip to Morocco is approximately three times bigger than the blue-collar worker annually leftover which is $60,000. As a 20 years old young lady, she processes so many assets than any other peers, and all the fortune was based on a fake identity. On her hearing she said that “I’d be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything.” She is so realistic that she knew that only with the hardworking and the opportunity won’t be able to give her the life she wants. So, she is looking to find a shortcut that she can have everything with a lie.
Therefore, my point is that the lies can be even more powerful than the spirit of hard-working on the way to pursue the great American dream which is an illusion filled with unfair opportunity.
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