Marie Keefer English 105 Robert DeFelice A Raisin in the Sun Essay Questions 1. I’ve always had love/ hate relationship with money ever since I was old enough to have my own. My first experience receiving a large amount of cash was when I celebrated my First Holy Communion. Through cards filled with twenty dollar bills to checks and gifts I received a total of approximately three hundred and fifty dollars and I felt like a millionaire. At this time I was seven years old and had my very own money
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In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Walter Lee Younger displays irresponsibility continuously throughout the play. The play is set during a time when racism was still occurring‚ making life for black families such as the Youngers hard. The lack of money seems to be the main cause of arguments and problems in the Younger household. Walter Lee is a man working a job of driving a man in a limousine‚ barely earning enough to support the family. Walter Lee complains to Mama about his job. “A
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Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ the characters’ have a dream of their own‚ which get in the way of the other characters’ dreams. These dreams divide the characters’‚ which create problems between them. The root of each of their dreams is through a ten-thousand dollar check. The dreams of three characters’‚ Walter‚ Beneatha‚ and Mama Younger‚ create conflict with one another that make their dreams hard to achieve. Mama Younger‚ the mother of Walter and Beneatha Younger‚ devoted her life to
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The Influences and Interference of Mama In the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ influence and interference plays a role in everyday life. The Younger family occupies a small living space in a boarding house‚ they are always together. Mama is an influence yet interference to the family. The characters that feel this way is Walter‚ Beaneatha‚ and Ruth. Without Mama the Younger family would get nowhere in life. Although Mama did not tell Walter to buy the liquor store
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Walter Lee younger Character Analysis “You name it son… and I hand you the world” said Walter (678). This was Walter Younger’s way of sharing his dreams with his son‚ Travis. In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” a constant theme of hoping for better and a new life kept coming into play. Throughout the play‚ it is quite obvious that most characters would like to have a little more in life‚ but I think this theme is best shown through Walter. Walter Lee Younger is a middle-aged‚ African-American
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In the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ an African American family living during the 1950’s in a small apartment deal with many struggles and differences that cause each member of the family to have different dreams. The family is given an insurance check from the father’s death that opens many doors for the family. Although this check opens many doors‚ the family’s thoughts of what they should do‚ do not line up‚ and it is uncertain which door the family‚ as a whole should take
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The American Dream in “A Raisin In The Sun” A Raisin in the Sun is a play that focuses on the “American Dream” and one’s conception of a “better life”. Each character in the play has their own view on what that dream is and what they perceive a better life to be. Hansberry focuses on the importance of achieving one’s dreams regardless of the various harsh struggles in life. Mama has dreams of providing her family with a better life she and her husband ever had. Mama said‚ “Lord if this little
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Akram Mohamed Professor Michael Zeugin English 102 9 April 2015 A Raisin in the Sun Each individual possesses a unique idea and mental image of their future. Victor Hugo once said‚ “There is nothing like dream to create the future”. Langston Hughes quotes in his poem‚ “What happens to a dream deferred”‚ “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun … or does it explode?” Lorraine Hansberry derives the title of her play from this poem. Dreams are vital regardless of the various oppressive struggles one
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Brittney Torres 12 March 2011 Roser 8 Raisin in the sun essay Pursuing dreams People have dreams to be successful in life but they are not aware of the hard work. Chris Gardner‚ from the movie‚ “The Pursuit of Happyness” and Walter Younger in the novel‚ The Raisin in The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry struggle with this problem in pursuing their dreams. “The Pursuit of Happyness” set in San Francisco in the 1980’s‚ focused on Chris Gardner‚ a man without money‚ who was pursing his
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In the story “A Raisin in the Sun‚” Beneatha Younger shows us her quite unique character through conversations. She is ambitious‚ educated and a feminist. As an African American woman at that time‚ she is going to college and she wants to be a doctor. She is such an ambitious girl who has a strong personality. “What do you want from me‚ Brother----that I quit school or just drop dead‚ which!” (36). she learns guitar: “I just want to‚ that’s all” (47) Mama uses the word flit to describe her. “I don’t
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