gk 2009 11 Götzinger

Homework

While I'm away, please prepare (read and understand, look up words) the following text and answer the following questions on the text until Monday, September 28:

Text - "True believers in the American dream wake up to a nightmare"

1. What was the original purpose of the “poem”?
2. What is the “nightmare“ O`Toole refers to?
3. Explain in detail why “The dream, to an increasing extent, has fueled the nightmare” (l. 35)!
4. When and why did the American dream come alive again? In which way has it changed?