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This perfectly parallels the empty corridors that connect the ostentatious attractions of the American Dream. In “The American Dream,” the character Young Man discusses his profound emptiness and inability to feel emotions. This vacancy is present throughout both the mall and the play. This may seem like a dreamlike fantasy, but Hess chose to describe the American Dream as “vulgar.” While recounting her awe and nostalgia while skiing at Big Snow, Hess also confronts the emptiness of stepping on a ski lift and realizing that she is skiing in a vacant metal warehouse. This 3-million-square-foot mall has dedicated over half its area to entertainment, with the Big Snow ski resort, a Nickelodeon theme park, a DreamWorks water park, and much more. But everything clicked when I read Amanda Hess’s article, “Welcome to the Era of the Post-Shopping Mall,” discussing the opening of “The American Dream” shopping mall. At first, this play was hard to comprehend and even harder to connect to my everyday life, mostly due to Albee’s absurdist style of writing. Through the characters’ shallow dialogue, it is evident that they lack both meaningful personal relations and excitement from life that doesn’t come from an exchange of money. The characters are fully engaged in a capitalistic society and therefore exclusively focused on their jobs, purchases and status.
This year, we read “The American Dream,” a satirical play by Edward Albee that explores the materialism and superficiality of American society. Teva Alon, Bergen County Academies, Cresskill, N.J.: “The American Dream” by Edward Albee and “ Welcome to the Era of the Post-Shopping Mall”
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In alphabetical order, you can read the full essays of our 10 winners excerpts from each of our 12 runners-up and a list of the two texts our 34 honorable mentions compared. Still, they gave us something new to think about, and we hope you’ll feel the same way.īelow, our 56 favorite ideas. Often we found that while we loved the creativity a student showed in putting two disparate ideas together, sometimes those two ideas were so broad they were hard to successfully link in just 450 words. But those were also sometimes the trickiest essays to evaluate. Now that we have run this contest for three years in a row, we judges found that it was the new ideas, the connections we’ve never considered before, that interested us most. Students wrote about orbital velocity and the French Revolution, the Röttgen Pietà, and “The Grapes of Wrath” - and connected these and other academic topics to Times reporting on everything from malls to microchips, Pinterest to protests in Hong Kong. Nearly 1,600 students took us up on our third annual December challenge to “connect what you’re learning in school with the world today,” and, as was true in both 20, what we liked best was seeing your thinking in action.
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