This is the statue of The Self-made Man. As the picture has shown, a man is using the hammer and chisel shaping himself out of a huge piece of stone. As the picture has shown, this man is using the hammer and the chisel to sculpture himself out of this huge stone. The hard stone can represent the strong power this man has. But this man hasn't finished building yet. So it means during the process of building a strong "person", it takes time. And the position this man has can also symbolises the meaning of attention and belief. Because this man is looking at the point where his chisel is and his another hand raises the hammer up higher than his head. So he believes that he can finally finish the work. And also he puts all this attention on his work. And he is also making himself at the top of a hill or mountain. He's nearly up in the sky. And that's because after his work, he will be upper than the people on the ground. That can represents after finishing the work of self-made, these people will have brighter future.
The American Dream is basically talking about the chances of changes in America. So everyone will have a future they want only if they were hard-working, they had sheer willpower and they were creative. And this statue would show the idea of creative perfectly, because it's hard to think about the idea of making a person out of a hard gaint stone. So it also fit the Chart for characteristics of a Self-Made Man. Like , they both have the difficult beginning that this man was a stone and had nothing and Ray Kroc needed to travel all around the America to sell his milk-shake machine.
5 Identify the crucial characteristics of a Self-Made Man (using the Chart Above), and give examples of men from your list that
exemplify the characteristic.
6. Why is the concept of the Self-Made Man important to the American Dream?
.
The American Dream is basically talking about the chances of changes in America. So everyone will have a future they want only if they were hard-working, they had sheer willpower and they were creative. And this statue would show the idea of creative perfectly, because it's hard to think about the idea of making a person out of a hard gaint stone. So it also fit the Chart for characteristics of a Self-Made Man. Like , they both have the difficult beginning that this man was a stone and had nothing and Ray Kroc needed to travel all around the America to sell his milk-shake machine.
5 Identify the crucial characteristics of a Self-Made Man (using the Chart Above), and give examples of men from your list that
exemplify the characteristic.
6. Why is the concept of the Self-Made Man important to the American Dream?
.