Literary Analysis - A Raisin in the Sun In the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the Younger ’s are a poverty stricken‚ African American‚ extended family of five living in a small apartment in Chicago during the 1950 ’s. The mother‚ Lena receives a life insurance check for her deceased husband for ten thousand dollars and wants to use a portion of it to create a better life for her family and buy a home. The play covers the different ideas that each family member has in regards
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In this play A Raisin in the Sun‚ shows a lot of gender difference and by being a female or a male they are to act and do things a certain way. Walter is the only male adult in the house. He is a strong hearted man who believes that everything he wants to do should be supported by his wife‚ sister and mother‚ but the way he acts just makes them not want to support him. For example‚ Walter has this idea of going into business to build up his own liquor store with the money his mother is getting from
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Culture and identity shapes and molds society as we know it today. Culture and Identity includes social class‚ generation‚ religion and nationality. It also gives us an understanding of how other races and organization work. The best way to fully understand one’s culture and identity is to not judge their ways of doing something or how they handle a certain situation. With this being said‚ there are many different things we can learn from culture and identity‚ it opens our mind to new possibilities
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The Joy Luck Club 1/6/03 Ch1 Jing-Mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club In this chapter we are introduced to the Joy Luck Club which originated all the way back in China when Jing-Mei Woo ’s mother Suyuan was in the city of Kweilin. At the Joy Luck Club a group of old Chinese women sit around and eat and after that they sit down in a table to play a friendly game of Mah-Jong. At the Joy Luck Club there are 4 major members‚ Lindo Jong‚ Ying-ying St. Clair‚ An-Mei Hsu‚ and Suyuan Woo. In the beginning of
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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 The Younger family of five struggle
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through. Isolated‚ Aboriginal community. * Walk past an indigenous man carrying a jerry can of petrol. Stereotypical image of addiction. Lena in a thick Australian accent: “Whadda dickhead.” Clear from this dialogue that her values are very different from the norm. * Close up of dead butterfly with crawling ants‚ camera switches to close up of Lena. Connection between the character and the butterfly is made – both are beautiful creatures but neither are able to flourish in such an environment
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Americans because businesses would not hire them. In the play‚ it is clear that Walter Younger is very unhappy as a chauffeur as he states‚ “I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say‚ ‘Yes‚ sir; no‚ sir; very good‚ sir; shall I take the Drive‚ sir:’ Mama‚ that ain’t no kind of job… that ain’t nothing at all” (Hansberry 660). Walter’s wife Ruth and his mother‚ Lena‚ also work for white families‚ taking care of their children and cleaning and cooking for
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his father’s life insurance money and plans to take the bribe from Linder to not move into their new home Beneatha‚ angry at the situation‚ says Walter Lee “is no brother of mine” (Hansberry‚ 499). Daniel Petrie portrays Lena as a very strong woman in this particular scene. Lena‚ though equally disappointed in Walter Lee‚ responds by saying‚ “Child when do you think it is time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things
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In our journey thought life‚ we all have certain expectations of how we would like our lives to be. All of us strive to reach a certain level of acceptance but also suffered in life to obtain what they want. For instance it could be said that all of us live a dream. In the theme of Longston Hughes the great poem “A Dream Deferred “ relates to the theme of Lorraine Hansberrry’s play “A Raisin In The Sun” by explaining basically about what happens to a dream when they are put on hold and when
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Raisin in the Sun portrays the life of the African American working class in the 1950s. The Younger family worked endlessly to achieve the American dream; they thrived off the 10‚000 dollars that their father worked to death for. Each character has a big dream of buying a new house‚ investing in a liquor store‚ or going to medical school along with the Caucasian society. Money is the source of all the Youngers family dreams; however will they‚ will able to handle the wealth? Between Ruth‚ Walter Lee
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