A Raisin In The Sun Dialectical Journal

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“At the window she raises the shade and a dusky southside morning light comes in feebly” (Act 1, Sc 1, 24).
Particularly, you can analyze that this quote contains a strong voice that can be portrayed as descriptive. She uses a handful of adjectives that foreshadow the character’s personalities.
“You get your mind off money and eat your breakfast” (Act 1, Sc 1, 28).
With this quote, Mama is considered the protagonist, given that the story revolves around the insurance check that she is getting and the concern about what she is going to do with that money. Containing some type of meaning about life, this quote represents the importance of going about life day by day and not living based upon material things, and in this case, money. I find myself …show more content…

But now he has said something that hurt Ruth, his wife, to the core and he snapped out of his drunkenness. This proves that the verbal irony of this situation is that Walter is only saying these hurtful things because he is drunk, but his sober self snapped his drunk self out of it, which is shown through the appeal to emotion, or pathos.
“(Holding up her hands to mark off each word off the headline she can see in front of her)’NEGROES INVADE CLYBOURNE PARK-- BOMBED!”’ (Act 2, Sc 2, 102)
By analyzing this quote, it shows that Mrs. Johnson’s character is nothing but messy and she is very sarcastic. The presence of her character foreshadows that something mysterious is bound to happen that will involve her, or that she will stir up some type of drama. I know someone that happens to be like this, which helped me to formulate my analysis.
“A steamy, deep blues pours into the room” (Act 2, Sc 2, 105)
There is some sort of fictional imagery being represented here. Although you can’t physically see music being poured into the room, one of your other 5 senses is being utilized, which is your sound. There is also figurative language being implied, where the “sound of blues” can be considered as unanimate and is being compared to a pourable

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