separated from whites because they were believed to be inferior and less intelligent. Consequently‚ Jim Crow laws and other mandated societal segregation regulations were established‚ which kept the races apart and whites ignorant of what black culture and life was truly about. This ignorance was clearly present in the entertainment industry; African-Americans were generally portrayed as intellectually‚ economically‚ and culturally inadequate‚ and soliciting or in constant need of assistance from white
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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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What happens to a dream deferred? In “A Raisin in the Sun” the author‚ Lorraine Hansberry‚ both ask and works to answer the often interacted question of Langston Hughes. Throughout the play‚ one witness the trials and tribulations of the Younger family‚ comprised of Mama‚ her two children‚ Walter and Beneatha‚ and Walter’s wife and son‚ Ruth and Travis respectively. Despite him technically being a full grown adult‚ the play is‚ in part‚ a coming-of-age for Walter Younger. A pivotal moment of the
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a story about a family whose continues to struggle while reaching towards the American Dream. The American Dream is described as “the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work‚ determination‚ and initiative.” The Youngers are a hardworking family who all have different interpretations of the American Dream. Mama‚ Walter‚ and Beneatha’s shared powerful dreams that give the a look into
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who she wrote about. The book didn’t say if they solved the conflict‚ but Mary Lou did try to explain to Alex that she wrote it before something but she never finished the sentence. While observing the conflict I didn’t learn many things about a character but I learned some characteristics like how his skin is pink‚ his hair is clean and shiny‚ and can be pig-headed. I would have taken Mary Lou’s side because she did try to talk to Alex and maybe if he stayed around to listen they could have worked
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A Raisin in the Sun an interesting play by Lorraine Hansberry. Showed the importance of family and the value of dreams and hops for each member of the household. This play revolves around a poor African-American family who live on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. The youngers family Lena‚ Beneatha ‚ Walter ‚ Ruth and their son Travis all lived under the same apartment in a dilapidated bedroom . Walter and his wife‚ Ruth share one room while their son sleeps on the sofa‚ on the other hand‚
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wanted to see Blacks as equal or superior to their race. To prevent such thing from happening‚ racist Whites set up obstacles that stand in the way of Blacks ever reaching their full potential. Therefore‚ Blacks must go through White supremacy and stereotypes on a daily basis in order to survive. This is evident in the novels and stories read in our African-American Literature course. First‚ in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the Younger family is denied its rights of freedom when the
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A foil character can be defined as a character who contrasts with another character. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Mama and Beneatha were foil characters‚ Mama who is wise and considers herself the head of the house‚ and Beneatha who is an independent woman who stands up for herself. Hansberry uses the two to compare and contrast the difference in beliefs and values of Mama’s generation and Beneatha’s. Mama’s generation originated in the South but moved to the Southside
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because of the situation the primary speaker (Beneatha) is in. In the poem‚ Beneatha explains what made her want to become a doctor. “ I remember standing there thinking that was end. But the ambulance came‚ and they sewed it all up …. That was the most marvelous thing in the world . . . I wanted to do that.” Later in poem it is seen that Beneatha has given up on her dreams‚ “I wanted to cure. It used to matter. I used to care.” These quotes show a change from Beneath striving for her dream to her giving
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The speaker compares the dream to a raisin‚ a sore‚ rotten meat‚ “It’s an image that helps readers appreciate how hard and difficult it is to swallow the reality of dreams permanently postponed” (Zappia). Each image makes the reader think of the dream that African Americans had postponed‚ and how leaving it ended up with consequences. The very first time imagery is show is when the speaker asks if the dream dries up “like a raisin in the sun"(2.2) A raisin was once a grape‚ it looked pretty and
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