Raisin in the Sun‚ one of the main characters is Beneatha Younger. She is a young African American woman who is studying to be a doctor. She has been seeing two men and they both have a pretty big influence on her and her family. One of them is a better influence than the other. One of the men that Beneatha is seeing is George Murchison. He is a very affluent African American man who is currently in college and is very snooty. He does not treat Beneatha seriously and is very pretentious and does not
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Hansberry’s acclaimed play A Raisin in the Sun‚ tells the story of the Youngers‚ a poor African American family in the 1950s. There are four of them‚ all living in a cramped and tiny apartment. They have a difficult life‚ and although their family is five generations of hard working people‚ they have little to show for it. With every person disagreeing on how they should spend the life insurance money‚ it’s no surprise that the Youngers get into arguments and fights and belittle one another on a regular
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Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the Younger family face many challenges‚ due to being an African American family‚ living in a small apartment‚ shortly after the World War II. These challenges vary from the amount of space in their living quarters‚ to even simply the abundance of racism. As a result of being an African American family during the 1950’s‚ the Younger family must cope with many vigorous challenges. One of the most demanding challenges was the Youngers’ living space. They lived in a crowded
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The setting contributes so much to the overall meaning and theme of the entire play‚ A Raisin in the Sun. The author gives a ton of detail about the apartment the Younger family is living in. In the beginning of the play the author describes the rooms in the apartment: Narrator. Weariness has‚ in fact won in this room (1542). The apartment is livable and it works for them‚ but no family wants to have to settle somewhere that’s “good enough”. Although‚ because the characters had to adapt to this kind
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with further questions that show various interpretations of a “deferred dream” or a dream on hold. These series of questions push the readers to ponder about the outcomes of neglected dreams. As for the play‚ Hansberry provides each character in the Younger family their own individual dreams. Although both works bear the same similarity in words‚ the significance of their commonality lies within the discussion of dreams. In “A Raisin in the Sun‚” dreams open the characters’ minds to the idea of hope
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Keeping It Together What a loving mother! Lena Younger‚ or 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
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The Tensions faced by the Younger family A Raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a book about‚ the Youngers’‚ who are a poor African-American family. They live in a worn down apartment in the South side of Chicago. The family is going to receive a ten thousand dollar check from Mama’s husband’s life insurance. The check is an opportunity for the family to escape from poverty.Hansberry utilizes numerous tensions and conflicts to drive the plot. A Raisin in the sun is a great
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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. For the Younger family ‘bread is not enough’
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lives. As soon as Dee returns Mama and Maggie‚ youngest daughter‚ notice a change in her right away. She was very well dressed and came with a certain surprise‚ an Arab guy named Hakim-a-barber. In a way I see how Dee/ Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo and Beneatha from “A Raisin in the Sun” are similar. Both characters try to force education on their families‚ feeling as if they know more because they went to school. The thing with Dee that has drawn interest to me is that she that she feels like she subjugated
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children of mama have all fallen far from her. she says that life is about being free and having family that cares about you. her kids think it’s all about money. The plot is the same in both. In both walter Lee Younger thinks it‚s a good idea to invest the money in a liquor store. Beneatha Younger wants to invest the money in her education. Mama and rose want to buy a house. The story then tells you how each one wants to use and spends the money. In the play they show everything and in the movie they
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