THE AMERICAN DREAM IN ELENA AKHTIORSKAYA’S NOVEL "PANIC IN A SUITCASE"
A huge number of Europeans, Asians and other immigrants try to move to the United States, as they are captured by ideas of better life. The phenomenon of the “American dream” was received in different ways, to occupy peoples’ hearts through fiction and nonfiction literature. The phenomena evoke different pictures and meanings to the minds of immigrants that feed their ambitiousness of good life. So, in this article, the binary opposition of “futurism” and “pastism” of the “American dream” is considered as a key plot to Elena’s novel “Panic in a Suitcase.” The immigrant writer depicts the life of the Nasmertov, a Jewish family, who left Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union and moved to the United States of America. The invisible connection between Odessa and Brighton Beach makes readers think about the relationship between two different cultures and generations where the writer draws her own understanding to the dream and presents it thorough different characters and characteristics where hope and experience form immigrants realization of their “American dream.”