Modern American Writers

The following stories all contained dreams and disillusionments. In the story written by Dick Gregory, "Shame" a poor black child has a dream to be accepted in his society and is penalized for doing so. Furthermore, in the story "Harrison Bergeron" written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. depicts a story of a 14 year old boy living in a futuristic "equal" society, wanting a change in the way he lived and was killed for doing so. The last story, "The Kugelmass Episode" written by Woody Allen is about Kugelmass's dream which turns into a terrible situation as he is stuck in an old Spanish textbook running for his life. Each of the authors portrayed how the main characters' vision consequentially put many hardships upon their lives.…