barrier of segregated ground‚ FREEDOM! In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the main dynamic protagonist‚ Walter Lee Younger‚ also longed for an escape. He was forced to face an enemy that felt even more extreme than Earth’s inner core. Racial discrimination consumed him like a vacuum. Skepticism besieged from his family‚ destroyed the remnants of his former self. Although Walter encountered these hardships‚ continuously‚ he discovered himself to be his most prominent enemy. Despite his role
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The Unique Contribution of Walter Lee Younger Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family encompassed about in abject poverty. Preceding the civil rights movement. Before the likes of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X. This family‚ The Younger’s have to deal with the inheritance left by the patriarch of the Younger family. The members of the family all have their own ideas of how to properly manage the money‚ however none of them have ever handled
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English 1 CPE: Period 7 February 14‚ 2013 Comparative Essay Martin Luther King Junior’s “I Have a Dream” speech is similar to Walter Lee Younger’s dream in Lorraine Hansberry’s‚ A Raisin in the Sun. Both of the men were faced with poverty. Poverty was a large growing problem in the 1950s that many people had to face. Therefore‚ they did not have enough money to live an enjoyable life. Discrimination was a major problem in the 1950s. For example‚ colored people would have to go to different schools
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money is the only salvation. Stuck in a place where only the rich can enjoy the privileges of life‚ my father‚ and Walter Lee Younger can only dream of one-day striking gold. Not long ago were they dreamers among the masses‚ eager to try something new. Once an oyster‚ now a boulder‚ the world seems to open its doors only for the select few and close them for those who dream. Like Walter‚ my father also witnesses the men downtown‚ "...sitting there turning deals worth millions of dollars… sometimes
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The character Walter Younger in the play A Raisin in the Sun is a man who believe true happiness is only achieved by living the American Dream to the fullest. Walter’s mind is twisted and warped by society into thinking money is the key to become truly happy in life. He is also living in a home where he is trying to live up to his dead father’s footsteps‚ which puts a lot of stress on his shoulders and he has a tough time trying to relieve his own self of this stress. Walter Younger is a perfect
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Walter Lee Younger: Selfish to Selfless Lorraine Hansberry portrays the revolution of black’s consciousness through the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by introducing the Younger family to readers. This play takes place in a poor black neighborhood in Chicago’s Southside in the 1950s where the Younger family struggles with racial discrimination and finding their true dreams and goals. Like most literature‚ this play has a clear protagonist‚ but Hansberry also uses an anti-hero‚ a flawed character who
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pattern of rhymes. (ABCB) Rhythm: musical quality that poets create by repeating sounds‚ words and lines. Stanza: a section or verse of a poem. Drama: writing that is meant to be performed for an audience. Archetype: a familiar type of character (hero‚ villain‚ damsel in distress). Motif: a dominant idea or pattern in a literary composition. (The American Dream). Simile: a figure of speech that directly compares two things through some connective word‚ usually being "like"‚ "as"‚ "than"‚ or a
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cannot get ahead in life. Walter Lee Younger is a man who is frustrated with his current position in life‚ and every disappointment he has encountered thus far. Although he tries to be a loving man‚ sometimes he does not know how to show the idea of love‚ "Sometimes...sometimes...I don’t even know how to try" (Hansberry 89). His position in life can be regarded as symbolic of every black male struggling to provide for his family by any means necessary. Although Walter has a job‚ it seems inadequate
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Walter Lee younger Character Analysis “You name it son… and I hand you the world” said Walter (678). This was Walter Younger’s way of sharing his dreams with his son‚ Travis. In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” a constant theme of hoping for better and a new life kept coming into play. Throughout the play‚ it is quite obvious that most characters would like to have a little more in life‚ but I think this theme is best shown through Walter. Walter Lee Younger is a middle-aged‚ African-American
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The Younger family is a poor household trying to survive in Chicago in the 1950s. Although they do not have much money or material items‚ they have each other‚ their family‚ to love and cherish in life. Lena‚ the head of the household‚ teaches the value of family over money‚ but Walter sees money as the most important thing in his life. Walter betrays his mother‚ Lena‚ many times throughout the play A Raisin in the Sun by going by what he knows and not what his parents taught him. Controlled by the
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