Clybourne Park spokesman Karl Lindner‚ who offers to pay off the Youngers to stop them from moving in the neighborhood. Hansberry highlights the different values of a black and white culture by attempting to alienate the Youngers from the affluent white community. The attributes of pride and prejudice are assigned to Walter and Karl‚ respectively to define their stereotypical society’s assumptions. The play opens with Mama Younger awaiting the coming of a $10‚000 insurance check from the death
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A Raisin in the Sun Script Analysis In the play “A Raisin in the Sun‚” we explore the different themes of pursuing ones dreams‚ racial equality‚ and the significance of loved ones. We meet Walter Younger‚ our main character‚ who is a man defeated in his attempt to achieve material and financial wealth in an effort to support his family and better his life. To get to these means of wealth‚ he tried many “get rich quick” schemes‚ of which none prevailed. His failures lead to a life
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-people have to express themselves one way or another.” Beneatha is a college student who provides a young‚ independent‚ feminist perspective‚ and her desire to become a doctor demonstrates her great ambition. Throughout the A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ she searches for her identity. She is also faced with many struggles that allow her to find what she is truly looking for by the end of the book‚ which is her identity. Beneatha is constantly trying to find her identity even though
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Throughout A Raisin in the Sun‚ Hansberry shows how her characters speak the unconventional South Side Chicago non-standard English. The play centres on the “Younger family” and shows how Big Walter‚ the father has left behind a $10‚000 life insurance cheque for his family. In 1959‚ $10‚000 was a large sum of money‚ considering that the average house in Chicago was sold for $ 7‚500 and a public school teacher’s salary was about $ 3‚000. During such difficult times‚ Big Walter had worked himself to
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reality‚ which includes family‚ friends‚ and work. Everything in their current life is put in jeopardy‚ just to attain a fictional life that they have dreamt. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the characters Walter Younger and Beneatha Younger come from a poor community and both have dreams. This can lead to success and wealth that will give them an
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Lorraine Hansberry along with her own personal life experiences to write this play. There are five family members living in a small‚ cramped space and share a bathroom with two other families across the hall. The Youngers do not have the easiest life due to their lack of income‚ but every Younger family member is hardworking‚ and determined to accomplish their goals in order to have the life that they desire. One of the main characters is Mama. She is a strong‚ determined‚ and humble woman who would
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complaining. Walter and Ruth get into conflicts all of the time‚ and then there is Walter and Mama with their struggle for the money. These are just some of the conflicts in this story. The generation gap poses problems between Mama‚ Walter‚ and Beneatha. Mama has stuck to her same values ever since she was a child. She is the oldest women in the apartment‚ and is the wisest. She controls the household at the beginning of the play but then hands her control down to Walter by giving him the rest
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brought African American into the theater and onto the stage 3. The play reflected a historical and cultural reality previously ignored by dramatists‚ and the things happened in the play were like many ordinary African American people’s life. 4. The younger family seem so realistic because their situation closely resembled other African Americans --- Great Migration: African American moved from rural south (bad place‚ no freedom and good living) to urban north (dream place‚ with hope and can have better
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struggling trying to fulfill their dreams with financial problems. During the Harlem renaissance African Americans were poor and barely making it in America. The main characters in the film “Raisin in the Sun” where Walter lee (the son of Lena)‚ Beneatha (the sister of Walter lee and daughter of Lena) and Lena (the mother). These characters portrays an important role on African Americans during the Harlem
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an African-American living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. The beginning of the play tells us that the Younger family is waiting for the $10000 insurance money that they will get from the death of Mamas’ husband; afterwards the story focuses on how the insurance money will be spent. From this main plot itself‚ we could tell that the play is about the struggle of the Younger family to gain acceptance from different areas of issues they are facing—economic status‚ ‘white’ neighborhood and
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