Examples Of Racism In A Raisin In The Sun
Rayan Apelian
Racism
“A Raisin in the Sun” is about a family, The Youngers, that lives in the south side of Chicago. Lena Younger (Mama) is the oldest in the family. She has a son named Walter and a daughter named Beneatha. Walter has a wife and son. The Youngers are a poor family. This is easily realized because five people are living in a small one bedroom apartment. The hopes of the family gets a boost when they get a 10,000$ check from life insurance of Lena’s husband. Lena wants to buy a big house. Walter wants to open a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to pay for her medical school. Knowing all these dreams, Lena just decides to put a down payment on a house which is located in a white neighborhood. Later, the rest of the money got stolen. At the midst of all this, Ms. Lindner, the representative of the white neighborhood offers to give them money if they leave that neighborhood.
In the play racism is seen in the entire play. The entire family works for rich white people. Lena’s boss always overreacts when she is late to work and calls the agency as soon as she can asking for replacement. This just shows that how easy they can just replace her with …show more content…
One night Reyna and his girlfriend Della drove to Sleepy Lagoon where all the young people hangout and socialize. When they got there, Reyna hears some noises coming off from the William’s Ranch. Earlier that night, the Williams were attacked by the Downey’s Gang, Reyna’s gang rivals. When Reyna and Della went to check for the noises, they were attacked by the Williams because they thought they were a member of the Downey Gang. One of the members of the Williams passed away earlier that night. Reyna and his group got arrested for being charged as murdering Jose Williams. Even though there were a lot of evidence proving that they were innocent, they were still sentenced with the
Racism
“A Raisin in the Sun” is about a family, The Youngers, that lives in the south side of Chicago. Lena Younger (Mama) is the oldest in the family. She has a son named Walter and a daughter named Beneatha. Walter has a wife and son. The Youngers are a poor family. This is easily realized because five people are living in a small one bedroom apartment. The hopes of the family gets a boost when they get a 10,000$ check from life insurance of Lena’s husband. Lena wants to buy a big house. Walter wants to open a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to pay for her medical school. Knowing all these dreams, Lena just decides to put a down payment on a house which is located in a white neighborhood. Later, the rest of the money got stolen. At the midst of all this, Ms. Lindner, the representative of the white neighborhood offers to give them money if they leave that neighborhood.
In the play racism is seen in the entire play. The entire family works for rich white people. Lena’s boss always overreacts when she is late to work and calls the agency as soon as she can asking for replacement. This just shows that how easy they can just replace her with …show more content…
One night Reyna and his girlfriend Della drove to Sleepy Lagoon where all the young people hangout and socialize. When they got there, Reyna hears some noises coming off from the William’s Ranch. Earlier that night, the Williams were attacked by the Downey’s Gang, Reyna’s gang rivals. When Reyna and Della went to check for the noises, they were attacked by the Williams because they thought they were a member of the Downey Gang. One of the members of the Williams passed away earlier that night. Reyna and his group got arrested for being charged as murdering Jose Williams. Even though there were a lot of evidence proving that they were innocent, they were still sentenced with the