characters‚ which are the Younger family is finding out the hard way that wealth can be found in other forms than money. In this play the low class Younger family is shown through bad experiences that material things are worthless. One of the main characters Lena Younger also known as Mama‚ lost her husband and is waiting for the arrival of the insurance check of ten thousand dollars. Mama is a retired house made and is the mother of Walter and Beneatha Younger. Beneatha is a student trying to
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relates to the three generations of women mentioned in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun because the daily dilemmas and altercations in the Younger family may cause Beneatha‚ Ruth‚ and Mama to convoy the same fate though they have diverse expectations for the future. The role of the younger aged woman in the raisin in the sun addressed as Beneatha Younger is the first stage of development of feminism. Her character would be described as hard headed‚ bratty‚ self-centered ‚ most of the time she
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Raisin in the Sun‚ the Younger family strives to reach their own American Dream‚ but struggles to do so as a result of the continuous setbacks they face in society‚ such as racism. Racism creates a seemingly unbreachable wall between the Younger family and their wish to climb up the social ladder. More importantly‚ racism is the driving force that causes the African
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An example of this can be seen in Lorraine Hansberry’s most notable and landmark play A Raisin in the Sun. This groundbreaking play is about the younger family who are a poor black family that lives on the Southside of Chicago. In this play Walter‚ Elaine‚ Beneatha have
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the Sun 1. Main Characters: Ruth Younger‚ Travis Younger‚ Walter Lee Younger‚ Beneath Younger‚ Lena Younger. * Ruth: Ruth is pregnant and she is going to get her unborn child aborted. * Travis: Travis is the only child he loves his grandmother very much so he bought her a garden. * Walter: Walter is married to Ruth he thinks that everything’s against him. He only wants money and doesn’t care about anything else. * Beneatha: Beneatha plans to become a doctor and she has 2 men
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a lot like the Younger family from “ A Raisin in the Sun” had to face. II. Body Discussion: Vivien Thomas’ decision to leave his first year of college to is a lot like the Younger family’s financial situation towards paying for Beneatha’s medical school. “Don’t you get up and go to work in somebody’s kitchen for the last three years to help put clothes on her back?” Walter says this to Ruth to show Beneatha that he and Ruth have been working as servants to help
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dreams come true. These ideas are necessary for each character in the book‚ “A raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun is about the Younger family struggling as African Americans to achieve their dreams in the 1950s. Walter lee younger wants to invest his father’s insurance money in a new liquor store and his sister Beneatha wants to pursue her dream to be a doctor. In the book‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorrain Hansberry the audience learns that dreams you dream alone won’t come
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side chicago. Despite the fact that they live in a caucasian society‚ the character Beneatha is proud of her heritage. Beneatha shows how the ashanti people are worthy of admiration because they made a big contribution to society‚ It is the roots of who they are‚ they’re admirable. The ashanti people made a big contribution to society. In response to George mocking Beneatha she tells him as they leave the Youngers apartment that the shanti people were an advanced society “talking about people who
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that day‚ The moving truck slowly pulls up to 406 Clybourne Street in the ever so famous‚Clybourne Park. As the truck comes to a stop we see first‚ Travis jump out of the car and run around in the big yard. Then slowly Ruth steps out of car as does Beneatha. The two women stand utterly baffled at the beauty of the mansion sized house. They study the white-picket fence‚ the fresh paint on the wooden shingles and the dazzling scene of the multi-story bricked abode. Walter has started helping the moving
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story of the Youngers‚ a lower-class black family living in Chicago that struggles to gain middle-class acceptance. The Youngers struggle to achieve their dreams throughout the play‚ and their happiness and depression is directly related to the failure to achieve all those dreams. In the play‚ the Younger family represents the mindsets of three different generations. Hansberry’s play demonstrates how generation differences in one household result in personal conflicts. Walter and Beneatha‚ who are siblings
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