change who he is‚ but he can prepare for it f he faces reality. (Context) In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Mama Younger‚ an open-minded‚ ambitious‚ tough‚ strong hearted‚ head of the Younger family‚ in her early sixties‚ helps take care of everyone‚ and as a mother and grandmother will do anything to make her family be happy and successful. (Concluding sentence) Mama Younger‚ an old woman in her early sixties‚ lives in a cramped appartment with her family. She helps Ruth‚
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married due to the Mexican traditions that pass from generation to generation. In this novel‚ Like Water For Chocolate‚ by Laura Esquivel‚ Mama Elena‚ Tita’s mother‚ and had to choose between running away with the love of her life or staying with the family because the tradition did not let Mexicans and Mulatos‚ a breed of African American and Mexican get married. Mama Elena is most affected by tradition and her personal desire of love as she must cover up her secret love of Jose Trevino‚ a Mulatto‚ to
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their own thoughts about the meaning of heritage. The mother is referred as Mama and she waits outside in the yard with her younger daughter Maggie for Dee’s arrival. Mama struggles to get Dee to understand the importance of their family’s legacy. On the other hand‚ Maggie lives with Mama and is described with personality traits such as a shy young girl. When Dee arrives back home to her family Mama notices that everything
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who are now facing the consequences and putting on a brave face to get by. The play Ruined focuses more on the topic of woman. Those women are view as how of “ruined” by society. These women turn out to be prostitutes for the soldier’s who come to Mama house. These women are victims who are shunned by their own villages and become undesirable to their husbands. My interest in this play is because is a writing that exposes a
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respect of family. In The Glass Menagerie‚ Amanda‚ the caring but overbearing and over protective mother‚ wants to be taken care of‚ but in A Raisin in the Sun‚ Mama‚ as she is known‚ is more or less‚ the overseer of the family. The prospective of the plays identify that we have family members‚ like Amanda‚ as overprotective‚ or like Mama‚ as overseers. I am going to give a contrast of the mothers in the plays. In The Glass Menagerie‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ we embark on the task of seeing a
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The symbolism of the plant in A Raisin in the Sun One might ask how the scientific facts of the functional purpose of a plant would connect to a literary piece‚ especially the well-known play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ written by Lorraine Hansberry. The plant in the text symbolizes the foundation for the family‚ honest hope‚ and Mama’s dreams. Symbolism is not a definition of an item‚ but represents something specific other than itself. Much like Mama’s plant‚ it represents many meaningful ideas with
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new home. Walter’s dream is to open up a liquor store and make money for his family to have a “better” life. Early on in the story‚ readers find out that Mama has a large check coming from her late husband’s life insurance. This excitement starts to create a large uproar of arguments in the family. The arguments ranged from Walter and Ruth to Mama and Walter to
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scene one Mama says “ Lord‚ if this little old plant don’t get more sun than it’s been getting it ain’t never going to see spring again.( Hansberry‚ 40)” In the beginning that the plants needs sun because its in a room with a little window and Mama worries that it will not spring so it shows that even thought it does not have enough sun and it is still surviving so it wants to holding because it knows it will be in a better place and become stronger in the future. In act one scene one Mama says “They
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was more then what they expect. Summary Twelve year old Lanesha lives in tight-knit community in New Orleans Ninth Ward. She doesn’t have a fancy house. She live with mama Ya-Ya. She can see ghost and is very special. Mama Ya-Ya saw Katrina in her dreams. So Lanesha and she prepared for the hurricane like everyone else. Sadly‚ Mama Ya-Ya die during the hurricane and Lanesha‚ her Neighbor and dog spot survived. Text-To-Text Ninth Ward Compares to Noah and the Ark. When God flooded the earth and
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past on the present. Mama Johnson and her daughter Maggie await the arrival of the older daughter‚ Dee. Mama Johnson recalls the various allowances she provided for Dee. Dee receives a formal education and the finer clothes she prefers to wear‚ unlike Mama Johnson and Maggie. Dee has two fundamental issues. Her family embarrasses her‚ and she is accustomed to getting her way‚ although Dee is never satisfied. She has high ideals‚ while Mama Johnson and Maggie are simpler people. Mama Johnson recalls a
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