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In the movie Raisin in the Sun, the plot focuses on the struggles of The Younger family, an African American family that lives in a cramped apartment in urban Chicago. The Younger’s main struggle within the movie is determining how to spend the inheritance money that their recently deceased Walter Younger Snr had left behind as his legacy. Within the family dynamics lies a conflict between the ideals of Walter Snr’s wife, Lena and her stubborn son Walter who wants to use the money to grow a alcohol business, become rich, and lose his dignity as a hard working man. Another main conflict is between Beneatha and her brother, Walter, her momma, Lena, and Ruth, her pregnant sister-in-law. Beneatha Younger is the youngest within the original family of Walter Senior, her momma, Lena Younger, and her stubborn, stupid older brother Walter Junior. Beneatha also known as Bennie is a young college girl in her twenties that dreams of becoming a doctor, which is crazy and unsupported during this time period. Bennie is young, hard-headed, stubborn, and feeble minded particularly to the ideas of others and to beliefs she disagrees with. It is through the movie that Beneatha struggles to come to terms of her identity as a woman, a African, and as a person in urban Chicago, to create a more compound person.There are severak key moments within the movie that Beneatha changes based on the expected actions and behaviors from her family. In the beginning of the movie, Beneatha gets irritated easily for having to share a bathroom with her family. Walter tells her that she needs to get up earlier, "when do you suggest at dawn?" she states in a sarcastic voice. A mixture of irritation and saracasm, intiates to Walter that his sister doesnt take his su... ... middle of paper ... ...tage, and Asagai. The final example of Beneatha's socialization is from the final judgement of her brother Walter, when he fails to save her money and plans on giving away their family's dignity by selling their new house to the white community. Walter annouced that he had called the people from Clyborne Park to schedule an appointment for them to come and take the house back. Beneatha rejects Walter as her brother "a toothless rat" as there was nothing else in him as a man for giving up, on their family's situation and for using the house's recompensation to fix his mistake. There Lena tells Beneatha that she still has to love Walter, that even though her mother taught her to despise any man who gives up or on his knees that Lena taught Beneatha another lesson to love her brother no matter what "(even when has failed the most,there is always something to love.)"

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