In Bringing Down the House, my favorite thing was how even though it was a true story, it read like fiction. It made it really easy for me to enjoy the literature. Also, just the main idea of the book was really intriguing, especially that these students were able to do such a difficult thing and get away with it for a while. I loved the different people that the students had to become and how they created different personalities for each of them. I thought that was super creative.
I think that there is a huge underlying theme of the American Dream in this book. Many times throughout the book, Kevin questioned whether or not a life of cheating casinos out of their money was what he wanted or not. He had all this money that he spent on partying and women, but he wasn't always happy. It was not a job, and it was not something he was going to do forever. Because he felt this way, he ended up getting another job to make him happier. I don't think that he ever achieved full happiness though, because he wasn't able to tell as many people as he wanted to. It shows that the American Dream is an empty illusion.
I know that the author of the true story, interviewed the people in it to get more reliable information. I wonder though, if any of the people he interviewed were weird about it. Some of them might not have wanted others to know what they did/were doing for fear of getting caught. Also, he said that he played a round of Black Jack himself, as a gorilla. I want to know if he ever got more into card counting and continued pursuing that.
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