I am so excited to be in such an amazing play‚ A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. I got the part of Ruth‚ and I couldn’t be anymore ecstatic to play her. The director asked everyone in the play to write a character analysis about the character we are going to play. He asked that we include the following what the writer says about the character‚ what the character says or does‚ and what other characters say or do to your character. The author‚ Lorraine Hansberry‚ tells us about Ruth in
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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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While reading acts one and two in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry the reader was able to determine the difference in the mindsets of the three generations of women in the Younger’s household. The three women in this story were Mama‚ (Beneatha and Walter’s mother) Ruth‚ (Walter’s wife and mother to Travis) and Beneatha (who was single and had no children). These women were all at different stages in their lives as well as being from different generations. Therefore these women completed
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The Difference of Mothers in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun The plays‚ The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun‚ deal with the love‚ honor‚ and 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
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A Raisin in the Sun is the play that we recently finished in English Class and was really interesting in terms of lively and everyone felt passionate with their role in the book. One of the characters I felt that really grew throughout the book was Walter Younger Jr. In the story he is the only son of Walter Younger Sr.‚ who passed away‚ and is the man of the house and also the father of Travis. His wife is Ruth and she is basically the lady at home doing the chores and she also works in other people’s
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I believe that Copper Sun should be taught to future generations because it is an inspirational and informational novel. This novel instructs us about a dark time in our history‚ and how if we want it not to repeat itself‚ we should advice future generations to prevent that from happening again. Copper Sun is an exceptional good read. The book teaches us multiple lessons about how you should always persevere through the difficult times just like the two main characters in the book‚ Polly and Amari
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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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