The most important character is mama. i believe this because in anyone’s life their mother would and should be the most important. She runs the family‚ what she says goes. whenever her kids seem stressed she can tell like when ever walter was trying to leave and got into a argument with his wife. Mama jumped in and talked to walter because she could tell he was not the same. Shes there to help guide her family now more then to help with anything. She gives advice and a hand when needed. The play
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The Character of Walter Lee Younger Walter Lee wanted to give his family the world. He believed that he and his family deserved more than what they had. As the man of the house‚ Walter fights against the demons of poverty and racial/social injustice that plagued his father and now seem to have a tight grip upon him. His attitude is negative and deceptive through most of the play‚ due to discontentment within. Walter hated being a poor black man‚ from a little apartment in the ghetto
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Cited: Hansberry‚ Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. 1958. New York: Vintage Books.
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Ottawa‚ April 18th‚ 2013 ENG4C By: Eumar Tovar COMPARATIVE REPORT In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and the discourse I have a dream by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. there are many similarities. These texts are strongly related to each other by three important topics such as Dreams‚ Barriers and Family‚ because they per se give the people the courage to face challenges in life. Dreams are represented in both texts as a part of strong desires to achieve personal
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Optimism is the hopefulness and confidence about the future or the successful outcome of something. As life happens‚ there is no way to predict what is going to happen. Optimism is what keeps the hopes of people alive. Even though these two characters seem the same‚ Lennie should actually be considered more optimistic than Walter because of the dream‚ their family‚ and how they are separated because Lennie displays a more optimistic person. Walter‚ being raised through racism and living through civil
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men and how he dreams about a world where people can be in harmony with no division of color. The play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun”‚ relates to this subject in multiple facets centering around dreams. The play and speech take place in the same time period of the mid twentieth century‚ where color was a major divide in society. There are many similarities between the play “A Raisin in the Sun” and the speech “I have a dream”. One example of a similarity is that both center on a dream that they or a
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In James Baldwin’s short story‚ "Sonny’s Blues" and in Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun both address the gist of the "American Dream". The term "dream" for Baldwin and Hansberry means going through the worst to realize the best. In Baldwin’s short story‚ Baldwin goes through the worst in life dealing with many hardships. He takes drugs to ease the tensions he has. He realizes what’s best for him is music. Music is what helps him communicate about everything. In Hansberry’s play‚ each
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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 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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assigned by Mr. Ferry‚ my English instructor‚ was a chance for me to restructure four pieces of writing I did this year. These revisions are supposed to be an improvement from the original draft. The four pieces of writing I decided to fix: A Raisin in the Sun essay‚ Holden’s voice‚ “Girl” story‚ and a blurb to the James Judd performance‚ Madame Riding Crop’s House of Licoline. I chose to correct these assignments because I really enjoyed writing them. There were many ideas of mine that I wanted to
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