Mama‚ is nurturing and supportive when it comes to raising and maintaining a family. Personally speaking‚ being nurturing means to love‚ care for‚ and show concern over someone. Analyzing Mama ’s relationships with family members can show us her view on parenting and ultimately show us her devotion to her family. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Mama is a nurturing mother who cares for and protects her family in her struggle to keep them unified. Not only does Lena Younger protect
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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 Hansberry‚ the Younger family’s actions teach readers that unfulfilled dreams
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American Dream in Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun The idea of the American Dream still has truth in today’s time‚ even if it is wealth‚ love‚ or fame. The thing that never changes about the American Dream is that everyone deserves something in life and everyone‚ somehow‚ should strive to get it. Everyone in America wants to have some kind of financial success in his or her lives. In A Raisin in the Sun the author shows an African-American family struggling to get out of the poverty
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A Raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry thematically represents the life of the Younger family‚ the conflict of their dreams and their struggle to attain these dreams either for selfishness of the individual or because of family differences. Hughes symbolically represents the idea of dreams deferred in her poem and such is a direct resemblance to the different dreams of the characters‚ Mama‚ Beneatha‚ Walter Lee and Ruth and the effect that their dreams begin to have on the family and them as individuals
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry explores the struggle of the Younger family‚ with aspirations of a better future whilst dealing with poverty‚ racial oppression‚ and tensions within the household. The Youngers finally have a chance to lift these burdens as they receive a ten thousand dollar check‚ and Walter wants to use this money to invest and help his family live a luxurious life. However‚ Walter’s inability to responsibly manage large sums of money causes him to devastate personal relationships
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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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generation did. They began to play around with idea of God and religion. The classes also had a large differences‚ the rich got to explore the world and see other cities while the poor barely had time to things other than work and taking care of the family. Beneatha Younger was the epitome of the change in generations. She would use God’s name in‚ what the older generation would call‚ vain. By simply shrugging and saying how much cleaning can a house need‚ for Christ’s sake‚ she was using God’s name
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In Loraine 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
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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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April 28‚ 2012 A Reaction to A Raisin in the Sun What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? —From “Harlem” by Langston Hughes The film A Raisin in the Sun is about dreams. Based upon the play of the same name‚ the film explores the dreams of the Younger family‚ a black family living in Chicago sometime before the film premiered in 1961. The film’s title comes from Langston Hughes’ poem‚ “Harlem‚” which asks the question‚ “What happens to a dream deferred
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