The Different Ideals of the American Dream

Journalistic accounts are typically thought of as factual account of what has happened. The accounts are mostly straight forward and easy to understand. They usually don’t include the author’s personal opinions or commentary. The boundaries for this were stretched and even broken by Hunter S. Thompson in, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Joan Didion in, Slouching Towards Bethlehem. They both wrote their pieces from their own perspective and with commentary. The writings hold the writers own representation of a reality that they are trying to get the reader to buy into. The difference is that Thompson finds a way to deny objectivity through his writing, such as being high on drugs, but Didion is very objective and is caught making mistakes that go against her representation. Although the writing styles of these two journalists are similar, their messages are quite different. While Thompson embraces what he believes to be the American Dream, Didion implies that the America...