Why they all so excited about that insurance money? Since Big Walter passed‚ we’d all known that cheque would come someday. Ten thousand dollars…in my hands. Just a slip of paper in my own bare hands‚ with four zeros written on it‚ clear as clear can be. This money‚ this cheque‚ this one slip of paper‚ could rise this family up‚ or tear it down‚ into pieces‚ pieces and pieces. I don’t know about this money alright‚ it sure will change my family‚ but will it change us for the worse or the better
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The Difference of Mothers in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun The plays‚ The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun‚ deal with the love‚ honor‚ and respect of family. In The Glass Menagerie‚ Amanda‚ the caring but overbearing and over protective mother‚ wants to be taken care of‚ but in A Raisin in the Sun‚ Mama‚ as she is known‚ is more or less‚ the overseer of the family. The prospective of the plays identify that we have family members‚ like Amanda‚ as overprotective‚ or like Mama
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themselves out to achieve. Unfulfilled dreams may not always lead straight to the end result of happiness‚ but those unfulfilled dreams are what keep people alive. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ A play about the Younger family‚ a black struggling to create a better life for them‚ some characters dreams are not met the way they intended them to. Although the characters unfulfilled dreams do not lead to the best thing right away‚ it is the unfulfilled dreams that keep them alive. In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine
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The character Asagai portrayed in A Raisin in the Sun as a student from Nigerian with a desire to marry Beneatha and return to his country. They both met on a college campus with Beneatha making a statement of finding her identity. Of course‚ the author’s thoughts during this time imply that the only way an African American can find their existence is a native African. Asagai first encounter with Beneatha‚ he brings a native robe from his sister collection as a gift. In fact‚ being a Nigerian promotes
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and thought through a visual effect. The key elements of the nature of drama are essential to understanding and interpreting a play or any type of drama. The dramatic art within “Time Flies” by David Ives and “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry are perfect examples of the main points of the nature of drama. To understand the elements of soliloquy and asides‚ the dramatical difference in stories and plays‚ and the effect of the audience against the actors is to understand how drama can be
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A Raisin in the Sun: Act One Journal Aaron Garfinkle 12 August 2014 English 9 In act one of Raisin in the Sun‚ we learn many of the dreams that the characters in the play have‚ that all have one thing in common‚ the need of money. These dreams combined with the fact that the family has recently come into possession of ten-thousand dollars provides a fantastic opportunity for author Lorraine Hansberry to foreshadow that greed will tear this family apart. Each character is vastly different from
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A raisin in the sun (2008) Textual Analysis Task:- The film ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (2008) is the hybridity genre of comedy and a realist drama. Its setting is a small apartment in Chicago‚ in the 1950s at times of racism segregation and also segregation towards women. The situation is that the protagonist is the film wants to be rich. The target audience for this film would be from the age of 18+ as I feel it is directed more to the older people in society although the film is a PG. Its demographic
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enough to fulfill one’s base desire with bread and beer. One needs a dream‚ a desire‚ a goal that can be achieved‚ and in the “Raisin the Sun” This is the American Dream‚ the desire to succeed and move up in the class system. Each of the characters has a dream to achieve. Walter dreams of making it big‚ Beneatha dreams of becoming a doctor‚ and Ruth’s dream is to move out of their old house into a nice home. The obstacles they face have much to do with their lower class status and naivety. It is in
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The author of A Raisin in the Sun is known as‚ “...the youngest American‚ fifth woman and first black to win the award (New York Drama Critics Circle Award)‚” (Chicago Public Library). Not only did the author make the play a universal drama‚ “A Raisin in the Sun marked the turning point for black artists in professional theater‚” (Chicago Public Library). Lorraine Hansberry is an epitome to African American girls with dreams everywhere. She created a world that many minorities in 1950 experienced;
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pearls in this world? I tell you I am a man- and I think my wife should wear some pearls in this world” (Hansberry 143). Walter Lee‚ the poor soul and victim of the society in the 1950s Chicago‚ just wanted…. The Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry focuses on an oppressed black family‚ the Youngers‚ as they tackle destruction of dreams‚ racism‚ and discrimination. Walter Lee the ambitious‚ proud protagonist faces many challenges brought upon him by the antagonist‚ society. In the beginning of
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