blog 18

 The reason I say that in the end Memo and Rudy American dreams ends up in dystopia, it is because the see the truth.

 

   Staring of with Memo, a kid in a small town in Mexico working with his father, and tired of the way he is living because he is was poor. Every time Memo would go out with his father to get water so they can water their vegetables and showing Memo, the process of the work and how is done, but for Memo he feels as if is a waist of time especially when him and his brother sees on T.V commercials about coming to America. The commercials that Memo and his brother was watching on T.V shows that if you moved to America you will live the dream everything you ever wanted is in America, and compared to how he was living watching that T.V seem the best for him, but his father was trying to show him that he should focus on what is around him. When Memo’s father got killed. Memo decided to move to America to live the dream, but later Memo realize that the America dream the T.V was showing was far from the truth. His experience as a worker in the cybermaquilas factory open his eyes, people are no longer physically working there. It became robots doing the work so it became disconnected with humans and the job fields. Rudy’s role was a little different, he worked for the military which for him meant a lot because his parents where in the military before. So for Rudy, he felt he was doing the right thing until the day, he had that mission that killed Memo’s father, when he saw his face he stop for a second and realize the disconnect he had, but he had to do his job and killed Memos’ father. Rudy felt in his heart after that kill that war is not a video game it is real life people getting killed, if any human being, is in that position they should take it more seriously and question themselves, am I doing the right thing.

  Memo and Rudy decided to go against the grain and start their own dream no more following orders they don’t believe in. although they were scared they did it, because they felt that if you want to live the American dream you have to chase it and follow it in your heart and if it don’t feel right then let it go.

In conclusion, not everything you see in commercials is the American dream. The dream can start from the heart then to a reality. Although commercial may sparked the idea of a dream, just make sure is that what you really want.