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  • Poor Relation And Walter Mitty
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    Why Does The Poor Relation And Walter Mitty Choose To Escape From Reality The Way They Do Why do the poor relation and Walter Mitty choose to escape from reality the way they do How successful are they. The short stories of Walter Mitty and the poor relation are in many ways very similar. They both escape to this imaginary life through one way or another. The poor relation escapes in the context of a story he is telling to family and freinds. To start with he tells us his life story, but this gr...
  • Conflict Between Walter And Beneatha
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    Conflict in A Raisin in the Sun In the play A Raisin in the Sun, the playwright Lorraine Hansberry depicts the life of an impoverished African American family living on the south side of Chicago. The Younger's, living in a small apartment and having dreams larger than the world in which the live, often use verbal abuse as a way to vent their problems. Many times, this verbal abuse leads to unnecessary conflict within the family. The most frequently depicted conflict is that between Walter and hi...
  • Hansberry's Strong Willed Family
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    ... 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...
  • Tom And Walter
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    Often the absence of a parental figure can have as great an effect as the presence of that person. This is certainly the case in the plays The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Though in different ways, in both cases the absent fathers have huge impacts on the families they left behind. In The Glass Menagerie, Tom Wingfield, the narrator of the play as well as a participant, is the first to speak of his absent father and acknowledges his presenc...
  • 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...
  • Characters Of Boy Willie And Walter Younger
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    An African-American Experience AugustAn African-American Experience Essay, Research Paper August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun seek to dramatize the various issues that two African-American families face. Although the dramas take place in two distinct time periods, there exists a comparative and contrastive view of the various issues that arise in these two dramas. The struggle to rise from economic adversity is present in the two protagonists in these dr...

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