Pursuit of Happiness

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Analysis On The Pursuit of Happiness Chris Gardner becomes a successful stock broker from struggling salesman of un-needed overpriced medical bone density scanners. He has a strong will power to succeed in order to support himself and his little son Christopher. He is regarded as a talented, sociable, capable young man. However, none of these can be the essential factors which lead to his success, but his dream and hope, his tenacity and persistence. Chris Gardner has a dream, which is to earn enough money to support his family. He still let himself remain optimistic and lives in life with hope. Dream and hope are fantastic. I always believe in the saying: What is part is stored in our memory. What is present holds our attention. What is to come is contained in our hopes, and expectations. With one certain dream, one has the reason to work hard during the pursuit of success. "The Pursuit of Happiness" -- the title comes from a misspelled schoolhouse mural -- has a lot on its mind but mostly this: If America is about the promise of bettering oneself, why does it have to be so freaking hard? In the movie, Jefferson's Declaration of Independence words about happiness kept recurring to Chris Gardner. Every day, Christ had to work hard from morning till night, but still could hardly make a living. Chris saw a bunch of suits, mostly male, pouring out of the Dean Witter Reynolds brokerage firm in downtown San Francisco. They all looked “happy,” “Why not me? “ Christ wondered. He did have an adorable boy, Christopher, but wife Linda was becoming a scarecrow of overworked anxiety. Finally, his wife left Christ because of life pressure, leaving him and her five-year-old son, Christopher. And naturally, Christ became a single father. With the failure of his business, Christ had no money to pay for the rent, so they were driven away from the flat. They
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