American Aspirations

I do not believe that Ivans family would have regretted letting him escape the hard life. I believe that they would have been proud of him for liveing a better life and getting an education, because parents whant to see their children succeed. I think that they would be proud of him knowing that he will be making money and leading a life with out the hardships of working on a ranch. I think that the American Dream effected the Doig family like almost every other settler family. The doig father and mother worked hard to make sure their child grew up stong and got a good education, even though the parents themselves were going through hard times. This is true about almost all of the peole living in the depression and after the depression.

American Dream

I do not think that Ivans family would have regretted pushing him to succeed. I think that Ivans grandmother and father were verry proud that Ivan went to college and escaped the hard life of homesteading, because most parents want to see their children have a better life than they had. The American dream caused the doig family to move west and try to start a better life. Though they might have enjoyed the life on the raches better than in the city it was harder and challenging, and they didnt do so well. what happened to the Doig family relates to most homesteader families because most of the time the parents had trouble getting started or starting their new life, but their children did better than they did.