2331 6 January 2013 A Raisin in the Sun ~ sequel by Vasile Garbulet ~ -Well Mr. and Ms. Kelly‚ this is the house. It has three bedrooms‚ a large kitchen‚ a living room with chimney and a beautiful backyard with lots of flowers. -Indeed Mr. Younger‚ this is a beautiful house‚ but tell us more about it. You said you’re the son of its previous owner. And did you live here for the last ten years? -Yes. My grandmother paid ten years ago a down payment towards the house. I was only ten‚ but I still
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A Raisin in the Sun Summary Living in the south side of Chicago a poor African American family had he opportunity to escape poverty. A 10000 life insurance check upon the death of Lena’s husband. Lena has a son named walter. Walter is 35 with a wife and a son. Lena also has a younger daughter named Beneatha. Beneatha Is in college. This money could mean so much for this family and so much more for them individually. So the question in all of this is: what are they gonna do with the money. Walter
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A Raisin in the Sun is written by Lorraine Hansberry. The author wrote this because when she was younger she experienced this. In this play‚ there are struggles that are going on. For example‚ discrimination and segregation. The family is currently living in a small apartment and are not rich but the characters Mama and Walter try to make everyone happy. The setting is in Southside Chicago. The two characters that have influenced the plot so far are Mama and Walter because they have been involved
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A Raisin in the Sun is about a black family that lives in a 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
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A Raisin in the Sun - Money Where money is but an illusion and all it brings are nothing but dreams‚ one family struggles to discover that wealth can be found in other forms. In the play "A Raisin in the Sun‚" Lorraine Hansberry uses the indirect characterization of the Younger family through their acquaintances to reveal that money and materialism alone are worthless. Living in a society where the fulfillment of dreams is based upon material wealth‚ the Younger family strives
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A Raisin in the Sun is a drama‚ a play‚ and a book that can reshape the way you think about people who are important to you. This magnificent story symbolizes how a family can go through a rough patch and at the end of the day continue to love and aid each other despite the circumstances. The Younger’s believe that family is important whether they say it out loud or throughout their actions. In the story Ruth finds out that she is expecting a baby. She contemplates an abortion‚ not because she wants
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Brianna Gervickas February 20‚ 2013 Period 4 Analytical Essay Do you value your pride more than money? In the play‚ A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ An African American family is struggling in a inadequate worn down apartment trying to make a living. Mama‚ the eldest of the family‚ is going to receive a check for 10‚000 and the family is ecstatic for its arrival. Walter Lee
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The Perfect Storm The reoccurring theme of alcohol in A Raisin in the Sun manifests itself in Walter’s mind and he becomes metaphorically drunk‚ resulting in a clouded consciousness and a distorted reality of what his family stands for and what is truly best for them. Along the way he will do anything to achieve his goal and even guilt’s his mother into becoming an enabler to his new found addiction. The progression of this impairment deepens in the same way an alcoholic’s would until Walter hits
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Barrett Bleeden Period 2 Hope for the Future When the curtain falls and Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun comes to an end‚ do the Youngers‚ moving into an all white neighborhood‚ have a glimmer of hope in their future? For many years‚ even before the story begins‚ the Youngers seem to know what their future was going to consist of: working for the white man and cleaning their apartment that is constantly encumbered in filth. This drab thought of this family’s existence
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In the play a Raisin in the Sun‚ the characters have dreams that represent a desire to achieve something‚ to be something‚ and to have something as their own. Dreams represent a subconscious drive‚ which creates the desire to be willing to do whatever it takes to complete that goal. It is a passion that will go unsatisfied without completion‚ that could turn into depression and loss of hope. For Walter Lee Younger‚ dreams are everything. Walter’s character in the play revolves around the hope
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