Cora Tucker

I think that Cora Tucker is successful. While she may not have as many material possessions as others, she certainly has achieved many of her goals for equality in a difficult community, and is still working toward them today. The common American dream seems not to apply to her; she is satisfied with making a difference in the world, no matter how small or large. This concept of hard work toward one’s own goals is similar to the American dream of individual opportunity, but it is different in that it requires one to designate one’s own goals and beliefs. I think that if your main goals are created by and for someone else, success can never be achieved. If Cora Tucker just wanted to appease others’ views of success, she would never have fought so strongly for her beliefs. If she spent her whole life as a sharecropper, trying to become wealthy, which in my opinion would be an unrealistic goal, she would never have succeeded, and she would not have had such an impact on her community.