Suzanne Seixas's A Raisin In The Sun

Everybody has dreams. As a child, people may have had the dream of being a rock star or superhero. In middle school, people could’ve dreamed of being a doctor. Then when they reach high school, they have dreams that must be realistic. They must make decisions about their future, and sometimes their judgement is clouded by unrealistic desires. Dreams are wonderful and terrible things all in one. Some people have dreams of spending all their time helping others, and making the world a better place. While other people dream of horrible things that could ruin their lives and others. So today when we look at these three different pieces we will analyze the different types of dreams and the way they affected people. In the play A Raisin in the Sun
They and many other African American families has a dream that one day they would be treated as equals, and that they would be given the same opportunities as the white community. They had to move out of their home and into a new one. That put them in financial ruins, and it was hard for them to make ends meet. Their monthly mortgage went up 34% when they moved, and they didn’t really have the money to pay for it. They were treated so poorly all because they have the dream that one day they will be free of the confinements of being an African American. They hope that one day they will be able to attend the same public schools, go to the same restaurants, and be able to sit where they want on the bus, just like the white community. A quotation that was prominent to their mistreatment because of their dream said, “Breathlessly, Ray Jr. explained that the gang had ambushed them after he challenged one of the “skins” for making fun of a planned rally marking the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday” (Seixas 185) Within that quotation readers can conclude that white Americans were horrible towards African Americans, and they degraded them for everything. The final quotation picked from this article said, “As more blacks moved into Deer Valley, though, racial tensions surfaced at Barry Goldwater High. At least two students proclaimed themselves skinheads” (Seixas 188). This final quotation shows that the increase of the African American population in the high school made the white society mad. They started being even more cruel to them, and they didn’t treat them as equals in