What exactly does it mean to be an American? This question has thousands of possible answers, all depending on the person. It is difficult to answer though, according to separate pieces of literature when one's own opinion might differ. However, according to many novels and plays, to be an American, especially an American Hero, is to work an entire lifetime to reach the American Dream, then fall just short, all the wasted tears and effort …showed first 75 words of 724 total…

…showed last 75 words of 724 total…short, all the wasted tears and effort in vain. Living the last of one's life in the third stage, chaos also. That is what the literature read this year says. We as Americans believe ourselves to be hard working, dedicated, honest, over all good people with plenty or morals and values. That is what we believe, yet, there must be honor in dying for a good cause, dying for one's country, for the American Dream.