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    Mama In the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ influence and interference plays a role in everyday life. The Younger family occupies a small living space in a boarding house‚ they are always together. Mama is an influence yet interference to the family. The characters that feel this way is Walter‚ Beaneatha‚ and Ruth. Without Mama the Younger family would get nowhere in life. Although Mama did not tell Walter to buy the liquor store‚ she was an influence by giving him money

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    A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play about the Youngers‚ a poor black family living in the south side of Chicago. They all have dreams and aspirations. In some cases‚ their dream is so powerful that it is about to explode and in other cases‚ they let their dream lay dormant‚ but every member of the family does have a dream. In the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ Walter‚ Beneatha and Mama are dreaming about a better life in the future; through the achievement and failure of their dreams

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    Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun‚ the Younger family each have dreams that they want to fulfill but is disrupted because of family selfishness and family issues. Each character had different dreams of their own. Big Walter‚ Walter Lee‚ and Mama Younger and the effects of their dreams on the family’s morale. Hughes uses a metaphor of a raisin to describe neglected hopes and dreams‚ which in turn is reflected in Hansberry’s exanple of the Younger family and their greed to fulfill the American

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    African-American stereotypes have evolved during the last 400 years‚ beginning with slave trade around the mid-fifteenth century. Slave traders targeted and captured blacks because they believed they were creatures without souls intended for hard labor and intense physical work. It was common for white colonists‚ settlers and slave traders to spread myths and misconceptions to induce even more fear and hatred amongst them.  During slavery‚ images‚ myths and stereotypes of blacks continued to hinder

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    someone of a lower class as they were dirty and you could see that they were sewn back up in places. If they were of the richer class they would wear expensive suits and dress. They lived in a small apartment where there son had to sleep on the sofa‚ Beneatha and Lena had to share a room‚ this connotates that the family are struggling and there not enough room for everyone in the small apartment. They had to wake up early in the morning just to have a bath in time for work. All these add up to the fact

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    he is‚ but he can prepare for it f he faces reality. (Context) In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Mama Younger‚ an open-minded‚ ambitious‚ tough‚ strong hearted‚ head of the Younger family‚ in her early sixties‚ helps take care of everyone‚ and as a mother and grandmother will do anything to make her family be happy and successful. (Concluding sentence) Mama Younger‚ an old woman in her early sixties‚ lives in a cramped appartment with her family. She helps Ruth‚

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    southside of Chicago‚ struggling with poverty and maintaining their dignity. Throughout the film Lena Younger‚ Walter Lee‚ Ruth and Beneatha face inner obstacles with themselves‚ conflict with outsidersm and cherished dreams. These dreams reveal the nature of the character’s longing to societal expectations that cannot be destroyed in the end. A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Younger family. The family is an African American family in the 1950s that are struggling‚ striving‚ and

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    The extra scene I added to the play develops a sense of closure for all of the characters. At the ending of the original play‚ the reader doesn’t know what Beneatha is planning to do with her future. Beneatha shares her aspirations with Mama‚ “Mama‚ Asgai asked me to marry him today and go to Africa –“ (149). My added scene reveals that Beneatha decided to follow her dreams and become a doctor in Africa. It still leaves openness on whether or not she married Asgai‚ but I think that

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    Also by taking a look around the Younger home you can see it in the faces of people -- and the furniture?! On the first few pages opening Act I‚ Scene I‚ the text says “Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies and couch covers which have themselves finally come to be more important than the upholstery.” I believe there is some symbolism in those lines as well‚ with the couch being the Younger family and the crocheted

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    hemorrhage. A Raisin in the Sun focuses on a poor black family living in a Southside Chicago ghetto over several weeks in the 1950s. The Younger family consists of Mama (the matriarch); her son Walter; Ruth Walter’s wife; their son Travis and Beneatha (Mama’s daughter and Walter’s sister). The storyline involves a $10‚000 life insurance check from the death of Mr. Younger (Mama’s husband). Everyone has their own thoughts as to how the money should be disbursed resulting in several dramatic clashes over

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