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    chapter 5‚ It is explaining Walter’s summer of 1947. Walter’s Uncle Lee came back into Walter’s life‚ when Uncle Lee came he talked out the side of his mouth because he had been in jail so long. Walter and a couple of his friends knew a kid named Richard Aisles who hurt his eyes over that summer so then they decided to try to hang Richard. Then when they was about to hang Richard Reverend Abbott walked in the basement of the church and he was shocked because what he saw . Mrs. Conway called Walter

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    Lorraine Hansberry’s realistic play A Raisin in the Sun portrays prejudice through the many complications of the Younger family. Walter Lee Younger‚ for example‚ is jealous of “them white boys sitting back and talking ‘bout things… sitting there turning deals worth millions of dollars” while he himself is a chauffeur for a rich white man. He is the biggest prejudice of all‚ as he is dissatisfied with himself‚ and his life. Walter Younger is unable to provide for his family in spite of his growing

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    A Dream Within Reality People have dreams that they pursue‚ but sometimes the pursuit of their goals can take a dangerous precedence over what is truly important to them. Depending on the goals of these dreams‚ people will change themselves and their lives in order to live up to the standards of that dream. The changes one does to make their dream come true can affect their reality‚ which includes family‚ friends‚ and work. Everything in their current life is put in jeopardy‚ just to attain a fictional

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    Although the three poems‚ “Let America Be America Again”‚ “I‚ Too‚ Sing America”‚and “A Dream Deferred” are written by the same poet‚ Langston Hughes‚ they portray different themes and moods. All three are written from the general perspective of African Americans who have lived through the time period of slavery and racial segregation. However‚ as the American society continued to evolve‚ the thoughts and feelings of African Americans began to evolve as well. “Let America Be Great Again”‚ written

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    Walter Lee: frustrated‚ angry‚ quixotic. Do you have a dream or an idea that you think would work but no one else understands? If you do‚ then you would get along with Walter Lee Younger wonderfully. Set entirely in the Younger living room‚ this play takes place in a run-down apartment in the South side of Chicago during the middle of the twentieth century. Three generations of the family live in this crowded space. Walter Lee Younger is a chauffeur and Lena’s son. He is a slim‚ intense‚ thirty-five

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    African-American stereotypes have evolved during the last 400 years‚ beginning with slave trade around the mid-fifteenth century. Slave traders targeted and captured blacks because they believed they were creatures without souls intended for hard labor and intense physical work. It was common for white colonists‚ settlers and slave traders to spread myths and misconceptions to induce even more fear and hatred amongst them.  During slavery‚ images‚ myths and stereotypes of blacks continued to hinder

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    Family struggles have been present since before time. Every family has there own challenges that they are forced to face. Two plays show how a family can deal and compensate with their daily battles. A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play set in Chicago‚ before the civil rights movement‚ about the Youngers. The Youngers lived in a crammed apartment‚ with just enough space for the five of them‚ and are expecting another child. They are depending on their father’s life insurance check

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    A Raisin in the Sun & The Glass Menagerie Compare & Contrast Paper . In these two stories‚ the relationship between mothers and their sons are very important and key to the story. These two relationships are very similar and different at the same time. In both stories‚ the father figure is missing in the family. The mothers expect their male child to step up and take charge like a father figure would. In The Glass Menagerie‚ Amanda‚ the mother‚ wants Tom to step

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    The character that I choose for “Raisin in the Sun” is Walter Lee Younger. The play shows that Walter Lee Younger is a black African American male that is depending on a $10‚000 life insurance check to get him and his family out of their struggles. Walter Younger can be really hard to get along with. He picks fights with his sister‚ Beneatha. He says all kinds of mean and hurtful things to Ruth‚ his wife‚ and is even short with his mother‚ Lena. I will be analyzing who Walter Lee is‚ what he want

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    A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry takes place in the Chicago Southside between World War II and the 1950s. The Younger family is living in a house that is falling apart‚ just like their family is‚ due to the struggles that African Americans faced during this time period. The two characters that have the biggest influence on this plot are Mama and her son‚ Walter. Walter has a big influence on this plot because he is the most upset about the news on the house and adds a lot of tension at

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