house. Toys and games are scattered around the yard where Travis is currently playing with his little sister. The splitting image of Travis‚ his younger sister plays with the same excitement he had so many years ago. A used‚ battered car pulls into the driveway. No acknowledges the car‚ but everyone is aware it has pulled up. After a few seconds‚ Beneatha exits the driver’s side‚ lugging a purse and a bag along with her. She is wearing scrubs‚ evident to her new job as a doctor‚ and it becomes quickly
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need to be- It doesn’t even have to be negative. Positive moments can influence a person’s character immensely. Beneatha deals with many circumstances in A Raisin in the Sun. These situations shaped who she is towards the end of the story. She is known to be self-centered and kind of obnoxious towards the beginning‚ only to find out that her character alters closer to the end. Beneatha turns her ways more towards her independence than relying on a guy to show her how things should be. She tries her
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The relationship after the check gets worse; Walter wants the money to invest in a liquor store. At this time‚ Beneatha is afflicted by the wealth considering that she would like it for her education. She claims her mother can do whatever she wants with the money‚ as if she has her mom’s best concern at heart. Explaining to Walter‚ how the money belongs to their mother and she can decide on how it will be used. The family is very dependent on the money‚ they conjured a plan on how they would spend
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generations of women in the Younger household‚ he can see the obvious differences of each of the women. Each of these three women have different perspectives on life. Mama and Ruth share more traditional values while Beneatha‚ because of her age and education‚ has more modern views. There are many subjects where the women contrast: identity‚ marriage‚ roles as women‚ religion‚ and self-expression‚ but there are also some subjects where the women are similar. Mama‚ Ruth‚ and Beneatha all have contrasting
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working-class families‚ and were not wanted in white communities. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ the Younger Family is different‚ they are poor‚ but they are able to overcome that fact and fulfill their dreams‚ despite the prejudice that comes with them. Because the Youngers have a strong sense of pride and loyalty their dreams are achieved by prevailing over their challenges and staying together through the end. Walter Younger plays both the protagonist and antagonist. Walter dreams of being like the rich people
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One aspect of this play is the way in which Hansberry explores the various responses and attitudes amongst the black community to their situation at the time and in particular their identity. The most important character in this regard is Beneatha‚ who is the author ’s main focus when it comes to assimilation. It is she who‚ through the two men in her life (who both represent opposite extremes in the assimilation debate)‚ explores the various options open to blacks at the time. Asagai is the character
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For my character I chose Beneatha. Beneatha’s dream was to become a doctor. Her dream was not achieved in the play because she didn’t have enough money to go to college. In my opinion she would have never achieved her dream. I say this because her family was against her becoming a doctor. They didn’t have any faith in her and would always make jokes about her becoming a doctor. I feel this would have caused Beneatha to not achieve her dream because she would feel nobody was on her and she would soon
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small apartment and is trying to make everything work out. The importance‚ people may think is to show no matter what is just to try and get whatever you aspire to get in life. Beneatha had a dream of being a doctor but it did not come true when the family lost all it’s money. In Lorraine Hansberry’s‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ Beneatha is described as a beautiful woman. (She is about twenty‚ as slim and intense as her brother. She is not as pretty as her sister-in-law‚ but her lean‚ almost intellectual face
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Beneatha Younger is a strong-willed‚ independent‚ young woman who knows exactly what she wants and she’ll keep fighting till she obtains it. She dreams of being an African-American Doctor which is very rare in her day’s time. Conflict arises when her brother‚ Walter Younger‚ loses the money for Beneatha to go to medical school in a investment incident. She thinks very highly of herself and puts herself before others. Acting as a comedic element‚ Beneatha’s name itself is a play on words because she
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Feminism was a topic that kept recurring throughout the story. Feminism was usually showcased to be important to Beneatha‚ she was a young black woman going to college “Listen‚ i’m going to be a doctor. I’m not worried about who i’m going to marry yet if i ever get married”. Beneatha didn’t care what people wanted for her‚ she wanted to do what she wanted like become a doctor‚ even if her older brother didn’t believe in her. Also she wasn’t worried about getting married‚ she wants to finish a career
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