John Green is a well known writer for books. His books are very famous. One of those famous books being "Let It Snow". Green makes a statement about America from an excerpt in that book. Initially, the quote comes off as sarcastic and not serious however there is message. The author makes the general assumption that the American Dream is just a myth or as it is, a dream. A dream however that Americans try to live up to. The American Dream being going to school, graduating from school, white picket and all that jazz.
In the eyes of John Green, this dream is absurd, ridiculous, foolish. Green delivers this message through rhetorical devices satire and verbal irony. Both devices are expressed strongly in this text, "When my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their back...they had a dream...a dream that one day...their son would lose his virginity to a cheerleader in the woman's bathroom..." Surely no one wants their son to lose his version this way hence the verbal irony. Humor is present in the text which proves the text's satire. Furthermore, Green asserts that the American Dream, though many people try to live it, is just a dream.
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