in each older and one in each younger. Through this four-part matrix we are shown how violence strafes the world of children by removing imagination from it‚ and how it teaches children nothing but to perpetuate the injustice that exists. Violence is a lack of imagination. That much is clear to anyone brave enough to analyze the motives behind it. Mansfield ensures we recognize this through the shallowness of her antagonizing characters. Isabel shuns her younger sisters in order to keep the
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Book report of The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan Author ’s biography and awards‚ Amy Tan was born in Oakland‚ California‚ in 1952‚ and now lives with her husband‚ tax lawyer Louis DeMattei‚ in San Francisco. The Joy Luck Club was her first and perhaps most well known book. It brought her great success and made her name known around the world. The book was made into a movie by director Wayne Wang‚ which Tan produced and wrote the screenplay for. Tan ’s other novels include The Kitchen God ’s Wife‚
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A Raisin in the Sun‚ written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is a dramatic play set in Southside Chicago during the 1950s. The Youngers are a struggling family in the slums of Chicago. A Raisin in the Sun has many characters in it‚ but most of the characters are in the Younger family. The plot of the book focuses on four main characters: Beneatha‚ Walter‚ Lena‚ and Ruth. These characters create the major conflict in the story‚ while the minor characters simply push the story forward. In A Raisin in the Sun
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characters‚ which are the Younger family is finding out the hard way that wealth can be found in other forms than money. In this play the low class Younger family is shown through bad experiences that material things are worthless. One of the main characters Lena Younger also known as Mama‚ lost her husband and is waiting for the arrival of the insurance check of ten thousand dollars. Mama is a retired house made and is the mother of Walter and Beneatha Younger. Beneatha is a student trying
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In the beginning of the play he is mean and negative toward everyone in his family. He has a broken relationship with his wife Ruth‚ his mother Lena‚ and his sister Beneatha. The only person he really gets along with is his son Travis‚ and that’s because Walter gives him whatever he wants. Even if it means undermining his mother to make him seem like the good guy. Walter is so frustrated with the
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success rather try to become a man of value.” A Raisin In the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry in nineteen fifty nine.The play explores the struggles of an African American family to achieve their dreams. In the play Walter Lee Younger Jr. the son of Mama(Lena) evolves throughout the trials and tribulations the family faces in the play. At the opening of the play we see Walter an ambitious man of thirty five years old‚ lacking in the knowledge of what it takes to become a businessman resulting
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planned. This happens to the characters in the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun. The play was written by Lorraine Hansburry‚ and it was the first Broadway play written by an African American woman. In the play‚ the Younger family‚ a family of five‚ live in a small two-bedroom apartment in Chicago. Mama‚ Lena‚ is about to receive an insurance check from her husband’s death in the mail and has to decide what she is going to do with it. The check is seen as a beacon of hope to change their family’s lives and make
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Did you ever think that one of your best friends could steal something from you? The Younger family received a 10‚000 dollar check due to insurance money. Walter Lee Younger’s father had died also know has “Big” Walter. Walter really wanted to use the money on his lifelong dream‚ but what he didn’t know was that his best friend would take something very important to him(his dream). The rest of Walter’s family had dreams too‚ but not many were ever met. Walter has to give up his dream of owning his
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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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In Lauren Oliver’s Requiem‚ Invalid Lena discovers that living in the Wilds is arduous. Lena’s former lover‚ Alex‚ reappears into her life and everything is changing. Hana‚ Lena’s best friend‚ has been cured and begins to think about Lena; even though she is not supposed to. She thinks about Alex too‚ and how she told on them before she was cured. Hana almost feels guilty about it‚ but the cure does not allow her to. Lena’s group of Invalids runs from regulators and scavengers. As a result‚ they
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