How can the attitude and behavior influence a future when disaster comes?” Behold of dreams” details the experiences of two New York City families during the 2008 financial Crisis. An immigrant poor family was from Cameroon, the Jonga family, and heir wealthy employers, the Edwards family were Wall-Streeter.
Jende and Neni came to the U. S. to create a better life for their son Liomi. Jende is a driver for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers.
Clark’s first son gave up his degree in Columbia law school to India to seek the truth of life. Mrs. Edwards became furies because she regarded it as a disaster. She came from a poor family with a raped mother and never saw her father. She was fear of poverty but forgot how she worked hard to get a good life. Mr. Edwards thought it was cool.
Clark went to a hotel to seek relaxation from girls during his time to find a new job and his wife saw a scandal of a wall street top elite corrupted for buying sex. She became crazy because she believed her husband betrayed her. She hated Jende to refuse to spy Mr. Edward, because Jende singned a contract of keeping secret.
In spite of Jende’s hard work and loyalty, Mr. Edward fired him to avoid divorce. Without a legal status, Jende couldn’t find a job to support his family. He had to raise Neni who wanted to become a pharmacist with a son and a newborn girl.
How to deal with difficult? Neni went to a church where was good to immigrants. She went to ask help from Mrs. Edwards who once promised to answer for her life-saving action.
Jende found his back almost broken by hard work in restaurants to clean dishes and uncertain of too much pressure of life.
Africa is a poor country but has a lot of friends ,relatives and good resource , while America is a developed country but has no job opportunity for Jende to live.
He decided to go back to his country to build his dreams for his family. After Mrs. Edwards’s suicide, Mr. Edwards realized how important a family to him, and he quit his high salary and long hour’s job in the Wall Street and lived near his family members.
A new life with beloved family members is before the Jonga family and the Edwards family after the economic disaster, both families is happy to their choice.
