people have dreams whether it is to be famous‚ have a nice family or even just to pass high school. Walter Lee Younger’s dream was to make a lot of money. In pursuit of his dream‚ Walter let it get in the way of his family and values. In the Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Walter realizes that his family is more important than his dreams because‚ in the beginning‚ all he cared about was money and he was selfish but‚ in the end‚ he decided his family was more important than money.
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Ambitious‚ independent‚ and hardworking. Beneatha Younger selfish at times believes that she could annihilate her family’s poverty. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry introduces a young strong and very ambitious woman striving to succeed. Beneatha ‚younger sister to Walter Lee and daughter to Lena‚ is a well educated and open minded African American woman who is very ambitious and strives to reach her goal to become a doctor. She will work as hard as possible to overcome her family’s poverty
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Biff from Death of a Salesman and Walter ‚jr‚ from A Raisin in the Sun ‚ both have a common attitude towards dreams and goals in their plans. They both want the end result of success‚ and yet they don’t want to put forth the effort necessary to achieve their goals. Biff’s dream to be a college football player was dependent on him passing math so he could graduate and get the scholarship. Still he failed the class and instead of going to summer school‚ he didn’t do anything about it‚ letting the
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underlying themes in Shakespeare’s play‚ King Lear is the concept of the generation gap. This gap is mainly illustrated between the family. The older generation is Lear himself‚ and the younger generation consists of his daughters Goneril‚ Regan and Cordelia. In the second plot of the play‚ Gloucester represents the older generation‚ and his sons‚ Edmund and Edgar exemplifies the younger generation. Both younger generations can be divided into two distinct groups. Goneril‚ Regan and Edmund are the
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Generational gap refers to the differences between a younger generation and their seniors. Each generation developed in a different period‚ with different ways of living and with different ideals. Although these differences have been present throughout history‚ old generations have to be confronted at the cultural change which affects the actual society‚ particularly with the new generations X and Y. The basic purpose of this paper is to show that the development of medias and new technologies
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In Lorraine Hansberry’s drama‚ A Raisin in the sun‚ Lena Younger‚ or also known as‚ Mama‚ is characterized by a strong noble women. Mama devotes her love and passion to her children‚ her family‚ and God. Mama strived to keep her family strong and unified because material things could never trump the love for family. Before the drama starts Mama’s husband dies and they are waiting to receive a $10‚000 life insurance check. When the check came in‚ and she held it in her hand‚ she felt mournful. That
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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is realistic fiction in which the play’s title and characters represent the play’s themes. The play focused on black Americans struggles to reach the American Dream of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness during the 1950’s and 1960’s. the idea of everyone having a the chance to achieve a better life should exist. Hansberry created her title using a line from Langston Hughes poem “ A Dream Deferred”. The original poem was written in 1951 about Harlem
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for its rights. This was caused by the change in the mentality of the younger generation of the American society. The young generation considered the blacks to hold an equal position to the whites in the society‚ and narrow the racial gap. Flannery O’Connor successfully portrays the generation gap in America during the 1960s in her short story "Everything That Rises Must Converge". Julian represents the young generation of that time‚ trying to make his mother realize the equality between the whites
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The Generation Gap in Romeo and Juliet Many people say that this upcoming generation is the worst anyone has ever seen. So someone might ask‚ in what ways might beliefs and values change because of age. They would not be the first person to explore this topic‚ even in the play Romeo and Juliet the two star crossed lovers defy what their parents want and decide on their own what is best for them. Proving that the difference in the age between grandparents‚ parents‚ and their children‚ each generation’s
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A Raisin in the sun and Death of a salesman are two stories with finance issues and strong bonds through each family. Linda Loman is a character in Death of a Salesman‚ Lena is the main is character in a Raisin in the sun. These two characters both have smart children with high hopes in life.They suffer with poverty‚ as well as disagreements with their children. The meaning of family to them is a strong bond. Some families believe money is everything‚ these two families don’t believe in “money is
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