The Theme Of Pride In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun
There are things in life that shape a person into what they're, and influence every single decision they ever make. The play "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry is set in a small apartment in south side Chicago that follows the life of the Younger family who live there, as they go through their own problems in life and try to keep being a family they can take pride in. Pride is not something that breaks you, it is something that shapes everything and person around you.
In the play it can be almost seen immediately that the Younger's all have lives that are filled with dreams of being able to do something they can take pride in. The first example is near the beginning when Ruth tries to serve eggs while he's talking about how he …show more content…
Beneatha deeply expresses, " That that was what one person could do for another, fix him up—sew up the problem, make him all right again. That was the most marvelous thing in the world . . . I that. I always thought it was the one concrete thing in the world that a human being could do. Fix up the sick, you know —and make them whole again (563-564)". The quote shows how deeply the way she is and the life decisions she makes. Her pride in who she is as an individual influences almost all of her major life choices, which is soon seen when Asagai asked her to go to Nigeria with him. The next and final example is occurs when Walter asks Mr. Lindner to come over to their home, and tells him what they're going to do with the house. Walter says, "And we have decided to move into our house because my father - my father - he earned it for us brick by brick.. We don't want your money (575)". The theme "Pride is not something that breaks you, it is something that shapes everything and person around you" can be seen in the example by the way Walters pride shapes the way he talks to Mr. Lindner, and the decision he made in moving into a home that seems to have more cons than pros. Showing how their pride of each other and family is so strong that it is able to convince them to move out of a home that they have lived in for almost all of their life. The theme "Pride is not something that breaks you, it is something that shapes everything and person around you" is fully developed by the way Beneatha and Walter express their
In the play it can be almost seen immediately that the Younger's all have lives that are filled with dreams of being able to do something they can take pride in. The first example is near the beginning when Ruth tries to serve eggs while he's talking about how he …show more content…
Beneatha deeply expresses, " That that was what one person could do for another, fix him up—sew up the problem, make him all right again. That was the most marvelous thing in the world . . . I that. I always thought it was the one concrete thing in the world that a human being could do. Fix up the sick, you know —and make them whole again (563-564)". The quote shows how deeply the way she is and the life decisions she makes. Her pride in who she is as an individual influences almost all of her major life choices, which is soon seen when Asagai asked her to go to Nigeria with him. The next and final example is occurs when Walter asks Mr. Lindner to come over to their home, and tells him what they're going to do with the house. Walter says, "And we have decided to move into our house because my father - my father - he earned it for us brick by brick.. We don't want your money (575)". The theme "Pride is not something that breaks you, it is something that shapes everything and person around you" can be seen in the example by the way Walters pride shapes the way he talks to Mr. Lindner, and the decision he made in moving into a home that seems to have more cons than pros. Showing how their pride of each other and family is so strong that it is able to convince them to move out of a home that they have lived in for almost all of their life. The theme "Pride is not something that breaks you, it is something that shapes everything and person around you" is fully developed by the way Beneatha and Walter express their