By Harmon Leon
For a few, the yank Dream is a pre-fab condominium within the suburbs with 2.5 teenagers and a two-week holiday on the finish of the 12 months. To others, it really is operating a push fruit cart in Oakland with the intention to positioned foodstuff at the family’s desk in Oaxaca. within the American Dream Harmon Leon attracts upon his reports of adopting personas and disguises to infiltrate a number of the associations of way of life, dwelling between a various diversity of subcultures and studying first hand how they see their imaginative and prescient and utopia. His incursions contain operating as a marijuana farmer in a hippie commune in Northern California; changing into a carnie in rural Indiana; traveling a vacationer allure in Mexico (that permits humans to simulate illegally crossing the border); venturing to Hollywood whereas attempting to climb the ranks within the star-making computer; and dealing within the strawberries fields of California with newly arrived immigrants. the yankee Dream is a humorous, satirical, and eventually poignant tackle what it potential to be an American this day.
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My plan is to work really hard the first day so the carnies will warm to my presence (and stop thinking I’m an undercover cop). At least my disguise is so good the other carnies think I’m actually from Princeton, Indiana! Then the interrogation begins. ” Skittles asks, eyeballing me with suspicion. “Oh, yeah, all over,” I reply with a grunt, wincing in pain with the final heave of my body upward, onto the roof. ) “Them. ” Skittles shoots me a funny look. ” “I’m good at talking the talk,” I stutter.
But it’s not, and she merely runs the carnival with Monty and Miss Phyllis, the ones who work directly beneath her in the hierarchy. Without my bandana, my San Francisco dreadlocks are now fully exposed. That’s why Monty is yelling at me and my hair. “Don’t mess with Monty,” Sheila advises, as he drives off in his golf cart. ” I enthusiastically ask, sooooo wanting him to pull it out and start waving it around near the corndog stand. “No one wants to find out,” she replies as AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long,” blares from the midway.
Soon the sun will go down on us workers out here in the field, and it will be the end of another day in the United States of America, and the day after will be another day as well for everyone here, on the farm living the American Dream. ” 1568583525-Leon:Layout 1 7/16/08 2:04 PM Page 35 CHAPTER TWO CARNY AMERICAN DREAM THE AMERICAN DREAM: IN THEIR OWN WORDS Tom Hoey, American carny 1992–2002 Being a carny and electing to travel year-round, which many do, is very different than living in one place, as I do now.