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Walter Younger's American Dream
1,042 wordsStruggle for the American Dream The American Dream is what Americans want out of life. It consists of people's family plans, career plans, and the type of lifestyle they want to live. Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play, A Raisin in the Sun, in 1958. A Raisin in the Sun provides many good examples of blacks struggling to achieve their American Dreams. The play tells of a family, the Younger, who want the American Dream. The characters Mama, Ruth, Walter, and Beneatha all show how they attempt to f...
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Their Own Dreams And Mama
1,282 wordsRaisins, nature's candy, are from by drying grapes. The play depicts the feelings and thoughts of the people 50's and 60's. Their feelings are different from what we see today in our lives. The Younger family had to deal with poverty and racism. Not having enough money and always being put down because of the color of their skin held them back from having a lot of self-respect and dignity. Not everything, including life, is as sweet as candy when dry. The Younger's financial problem left them ex...
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Mama And Ruth's Dreams
1,032 wordsA Raisin in the Sun All people in the world have dreams. No matter if they are big or small, they are still dreams. For some people it may be to become rich and famous or for others it might be to go to Disneyland. The characters in "A Raisin in the Sun" all had dreams too. The dreams of Mama, Ruth, Walter, and Beneatha are all different. Mama and Ruth both dream of a better life and a new house, Walter dreams of being rich, and Beneatha's dream is to become a doctor. Both Mama and Ruth's dreams...
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Their Own Dreams And Mama
797 wordsThe play depicts the feelings and thoughts of the people of their time. Their feelings are different then what we see today in our lives. The family had to deal with poverty and racism. Not having enough money and always being put down because of the color of their skin held them back from having a lot of self-respect and dignity. I think that Mama was the one who had the most pride and held the family together. Ruth was being prevented from having a baby because of money problems, Walter was br...
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Mama's Bank Account
949 wordsBeautifully realized, exquisitely detailed film directed by George Stevens I Remember Mama tells of a Norwegian family living in San Francisco during the beginning of this century. It is an old classical movie, based on Kathryn Forbes? novel titled Mama's Bank Account. The film is rendered and it is a moving act of memory about how an immigrant family copes with poverty and how they try to overcome the odds of living in a foreign country. I could identify with almost every scene in the movie and...
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Hansberry's Strong Willed Family
3,012 words... Or does it Explode? In 1951 Langston Hughes wrote a poem called Harlem about dreams that never came true. Hughes lists about a half dozen effects of these "deferred dreams" in his poem "Harlem" (Abcarian and Klotz 448) The poem does not just ask what happens to and what are the results of these dreams, but by naming it "Harlem" the poem becomes a social commentary on the people and impossible dreams of Harlem, and leads to further questions about why certain dreams would be impossible for th...
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Mama's Dream
311 wordsThe significance of the title of the play describes the struggles of the Younger family as each individual's dreams were differed. The title suggests the meager raisin that would fight against the sun's heat. This would be a comparison to the dreams of the characters in the play, especially the minorities of Walter, Beneatha, and Mama (Lena) as they stand defiant against the white. The analogy strongly relates to the Younger family because in the poem by Langston Hughes, he described different i...
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