The Dream Keeper, By Langston Hughes

Society has told us that some dreams aren’t realistic, whether you want to be a professional athlete, a successful musician, or a famous actor. Society, whether it be on television or just through our everyday lives have impacted our dreams in one way shape or form. According to the poem, “The Dream Keeper” by Langston Hughes, it talks about bringing all of your dreams, so that it may be wrapped up in a blue cloud-cloth so they can be away from the rough society of the world. Hughes makes a valid point from this poem, basically it’s saying that you should hold onto your dreams what matter what the circumstance, whether that be the clutches of the world we live in or from doubting your dream yourself. Dreams is what makes me and you unique,

In elementary school in around second grade I wanted to be the President of the United States because I have recently watched the election of the former U.S. president, President Obama. So, I decided to start telling my friends at school about my dream and I got responses around the lines of, “But Jonah, if your President you’ll get shot like John. F. Kennedy” and, “Ha, good luck with that.” I did get some positive comments, but the negative comments stuck with me. Eventually, I started to doubt my dream and I gave it up because I realized there can only be one President and that wouldn’t be me. Who knows, maybe if I didn’t give into the harsh society, I could become President. Looking back at the poem by Hughes, I feel like if I understood the influence that society had on dreams, like I had now, I could have stuck with the

Whether that be our parents wanting his or her child to become a doctor because it’s a good paying job or the influences around us telling us to be an engineer or lawyer because they’re the jobs that make the most money. Even though those jobs are well payed, that doesn’t mean people will actually enjoy doing it. A recent survey suggests that when people are asked “What they plan on being when they're older”, they say either an engineer, lawyer or doctor but then they were asked “What would you be if you could choose any job in the world” and most of the people that were surveyed changed their mind and they said something different. The bottom line is to follow your dreams, and don’t let anything change that. If you let society choose your course, then chances are that you won’t be doing something that you’ll enjoy. I’m certainly going to follow my new dreams or even my old dreams and I won’t let anything get in my way of that. So, will you follow your dreams, or let society take those dreams away from