Raisin In The Sun Segregation

A Raisin in the sun talks about the racial and social struggle 1950s and 1960s. The racial segregation is the main topic companying the human conflict centered on the family Younger in Chicago. One could argue that the play was written as a silent, cultural protest against the racial segregation when it comes to rights for living spaces. The play started with family Younger´s life in a small apartment with the following main characters: Walter Younger, his wife Ruth, his son Travis, his sister Beneatha, and his mom Lena live together. Walter works as a limousine driver and make mostly just enough for their family’s life cost. However, his mom received quite a significant amount of life insurance money from her late husband’s death. Tired of
Ruth, his wife, is a woman who had been living too long under poverty and Walter´s disillusioned way of thinking about reaching wealth. As the result, Ruth is emotionally exhausted, but on the other hands also wants to support his husband and family. Walter´s son Travis is a teenage boy who loves his parents and family much. Lena, Walter´s mother, is a God-fearing lady who blindly puts her faith above anything else (proved by her disapproval of Walter´s liquor store idea as it is something ´unchristian´) and is calmer than her children’s more emotional approach to conflicts. Apart from the family members, there are some minor characters, such as George and Joseph, which perfectly represents the duality of identity problem faced by the African-American in general at the time. George, Beneatha´s boyfriend, represents the fully integrated colored member of society, which on the other hand also means that he and his family are to a certain degree unattached from their African roots and even despise it. Joseph, Beneatha´s affair on the other hand, is the complete opposite from
After it is clear that Ruth is pregnant, which raises the questions of more space than the lousy apartment, Lena decides to use part of her insurance payment on buying a new house, which just so happens to be on a predominantly white neighborhood. Although she originally wished on spending some of the money on Beneatha´s education, in the end she decides to support her son´s dream and agreed to give the money for his investment. This raises a conflict as Beneatha´s dream is ultimately crushed, which is why she then decided to accept Joseph´s marriage proposal and move to Nigeria with him to live there. Meanwhile, Karl Lindner propose to offer some compensation for family Younger so that they will not move into the predominantly white neighborhood to avoid interracial tensions, something which fuels more conflict inside the family. Ultimately, the family decided to decline the money from Mr. Lindner and move to the neighborhood anyway since according to them working class family should be allowed to as they earn that right by themselves. The play has a climactic structure as the play took place in quite a short amount of time, has a of climax moment near the end of the story, and has a limited number of characters, scenes, and