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  • Point In The Play Mama's Nurturing Attitude
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    Keeping It Together What a loving mother! Lena Younger, or Mama, is nurturing and supportive when it comes to raising and maintaining a family. Personally speaking, being nurturing means to love, care for, and show concern over someone. Analyzing Mama's relationships with family members can show us her view on parenting and ultimately show us her devotion to her family. In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Mama is a nurturing mother who cares for and protects her family in her struggle...
  • America Walter Younger
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    Analysis of the Character Walter in A Raisin in the Sun Everyone in America wants to achieve some sort of financial success in his or her life. Sometimes living in a capitalistic society entices many to become too materialistic. Greed is the characteristic that many Americans then attain. This is all in pursuit of the American dream. For most Americans, this high status is very difficult to achieve. In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, she examines an African-American family's struggle t...
  • Ruth
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    Walter (In-Depth Analysis) As Mama's only son, Ruth's defiant husband, Travis's caring father, and Beneatha's belligerent brother, Walter serves as both protagonist and antagonist of the play. The plot revolves around him and the actions that he takes. Most of his actions and mistakes hurt the family greatly, but his belated rise to manhood makes him a sort of hero in the last scene. His character evolves the most during the course of the play. Throughout the play, Walter provides an everyman pe...
  • Money Into A Liquor Store And Beneatha
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    A Raisin in the Sun Throughout the play, A Raisin in the Sun, the character Beneatha talks about finding her identity. The concept of assimilation becomes very important to the Younger family. Neither of the members of the Younger family wanted to assimilate into mainstream America, they just want to live comfortably. The Younger are an African American family living on the south side of Chicago in the 1950's. They were living during an era where America was extremely racist towards blacks. The ...
  • Mama's Money
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    Lorraine Hansberry's novel, A Raisin in the Sun, revolves around a middle-class African-American family, struggling during World War II. By reading about the Younger's true to life experiences, one learns many important life lessons. One of the aforementioned would be that a person should always put family's needs before their own. There are many examples of this throughout the novel. Just a few of these would be the example of Ruth and her unborn baby, Walter regaining the respect of his family...
  • Mama And Walter
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    A Raisin In the Sun Staci King Lorraine Hansberry A-2 PCP Penguin Books 10-29-991988 Rpt. 2 A Raisin In the Sun is a drama play that takes place "sometime between World War II and the present". The family lived in Chicago's Southside. The town was very "dusky" and as each day passed the nights got colder. The Younger family lived in a small old apartment with only two small rooms. The little one had to sleep on the couch every night. The house needed a great amount of fixing up; everyone was rea...
  • Walter Want's The Money
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    'A Raisin In the Sun': An Analysis'A Raisin In The Sun' is a play written by an African-American playwright - Lorraine Hansberry. It was first produced in 1959. Lorraine Hansberry's work is about a black family in the Chicago's South-Side after the Second World War. The family consisted of Mama (Lena Younger), Walter Lee (her son), Ruth (his wife), Travis (their son), and Beneath a (Walters younger sister). The Younger family lived in poor conditions, and can't afford to have better living stand...
  • Walter's Dream
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    Quests Not Dreams A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is the story of black family living in the south side of Chicago. Each member of the family has a dream, a dream that has been put off for some reason. The storyline revolves around an insurance check for $10,000. The check belongs to Mama but each character envisions a different use for the money. Through the events of the play, each person either has their dream realized or caught a glimpse of their dream being fulfilled. I believe th...
  • Although Marietta
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    The Bean Trees takes place in rural Pittman County, Kentucky, in the 1980's and its narrator is Marietta Greer, a young woman from an impoverished family. She begins the novel with an admission that she has always been afraid of putting an air in a tire ever since she saw a tractor tire blow up and send Newt Hardbine's father flying over the top of the Standard Oil sign. Although her name is Marietta, her Mama has called her Missy for years, ever since she was a three year old and demanded to be...
  • White Family Mr Linder
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    Many times in our lives we must remind ourselves that money is not everything. However in the play a raisin in the sun this did not come easy for a character named Walter. When Mr. Lindner appeared to the Younger apartment the first time he offered them money in exchange for not moving to Clybourne Park. His offer was enough to pay for not only the house but also a little more than that. To an outsiders perspective this offer would not sound bad at all. However the Younger family has lived in th...
  • Story Walter
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    A Raisin in the Sun is a drama is written by Lorraine Hansberry. The title is from a poem named "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes. When it asks what happens to a dream that is deferred. The story is about a story of a low class black family's struggle. The family lives in a small apartment, which is too small for it's five tenants. The focus of the story is on how to spend the ten thousand-dollar insurance checks from the death of Mama's husband Big Walter. The conflict of the story comes ab...
  • Walter And Beneatha
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    "What happens to a dream deferred?" Langston Hughes asks in his 1959 poem "Dream Deferred". He suggests that it might "dry up like a raisin in the sun" or "stink like a rotten meat" however at the end of the poem, Hughes offers another alternative by asking", or does it explode?" this is the view Lorraine Hansberry supports in her 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun. The drama opens with Walter reading, "Set off another bomb yesterday" from the front page of the morning newspaper; however he is unawar...
  • Walter's Discrimination Toward Mama And Ruth
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    Racism is a major issue that has affected the United States since its discovery. Racism is the hatred by a person of one race pointed at a person of another race. The United States has grown up to improve as a whole but this process is a long way away from completion. Some citizens still believe that African-Americans are inferior to Caucasians and that they should be slaves. In the 1950's, whites and blacks were segregated to a point that they could not go to the same schools or even use the sa...
  • Younger Family
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    A Raisin In The Sun A Raisin In the Sun, is a drama play that takes place sometime between World War II. The family lived in Chicago's southside, where the town was very dusky and as each day passed the nights got colder. The Younger family lived in a small old apartment with only two small rooms. In this play, Lorraine Hansberry paints an impressive portrait of the Youngers, a family composed of powerful individuals who are yet in many typical in their dreams and frustrations. The Youngers fami...
  • Genial Slaves And The Transfer Of Hatred
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    The Struggles of A White Dominated Society A dream deferred is a dream put off for another time. In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, many dreams are seen and shown. Through the dreams of the characters comes many other things including the organization of other blacks, genial slaves, and the transfer of hatred. Many of the problems that occurred in A Raisin in the Sun were due to the struggles of living in a white dominated society. A way for people in this story to feel more secure is...
  • Walter Younger
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    Lorraine Hansbeery's drama, "A Raisin in the Sun' examines an Africa American family's struggle to break free of poverty and disp are. Walter Younger symbolizes the black man's struggle to free himself of white servitor and his desire of white man's business world. Lorraine Hansbeery effect ely portals how the issues of poverty, segregation cultural differences influence this family "American Dream. The Younger family lives in the housing projects on the Southside of Chicago. Poverty is evident ...
  • Beneatha And Walter Lee
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    A Raisin in the Sun – Context Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago on May 19, 1930, the youngest of four children. Her family lived, at the time, on the Southside, in a neighborhood that was entirely black. During this era, segregation– the enforced separation of whites and blacks was still legal, and widespread throughout the south. Northern states, including Hansberry's own Illinois, had no official policy of segregation, but were generally self-segregated along racial and econom...
  • Different Value Systems Cause Walter And Mama
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    While reading A Raisin in the Sun, one learns much about the values of the characters in the story, especially of Mama and Walter. Through the dialogue and actions of the two characters, we learn that the value systems of Mama and Walter are extremely different, and even sometimes contradictory. Mama's greatest value is family, while Walter's values evolve only around fame, power, and wealth. As a result of their radically different value systems, Mama and Walter's motivations, actions, and rela...

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