Kiana Cornish
October 9, 2008
The American way of life is looked at in many different ways from different Americans perspectives. Although people look at the awol of life differently, in all definitions, success seems to play a part in it. Personally I believe people view the American Way Of Life as mostly being successful because that's the way it has been portrayed for years. On televisions, in papers, movies, books, there is always a person living the ideal "awol", and that person is always what we would call "successful." while interviewing people It deepened my belief that success is definitely a important aspect of life to Americans. I interviewed a babysitter who was taking care of two little babies, I asked about her perspective on the AWOL and she replied, “Work, work, work, and pay bills. Its very, very hard! Work to make it in this country.” Another person I interviewed was a old couple, they answered “Family, raising kids, basic luxuries, vacations, a little more normal than usual,” and a young man also said “Pursuing whatever your passionate about, its not easy to achieve it.” Overall people had the same perspective on the American Way Of Life. They all believed that you have to work hard in order to get what you want, but then again how its not always easy to achieve something. When asking a random man what he thought American Way Of Life was, he gave an answer that many Americans probably wouldn’t say. “That's a very hard question, life is life u live it accordingly, I haven't been other places to be able to tell the difference, right now I have no complaints I just want to kill my landlord I'm having a problem with him.” This is another reality of the way Americans live, there is always issues that we have to deal with that can affect us in major ways. Whether is the rent, gas prices, or our education, its always going to be an issue in our lives no matter what. “Tolerance,” was a word one women used to describe the AWOL, tolerance for issues in our life if what we all need to have. Overall ones definition of success depends on their views on life, what one may think is successful, another may think is a waste of time.
