Literary Analysis
Dreams. Everybody has them. Nobody in this world can say that they have never had a dream, at least one. Some accomplish their dreams. Some get deferred. There are 3 Factors that can defer a person’s dream. Those 3 factors are, environment, Poverty, and race.
Dreams can get deferred by the environment that there are in. They can be living in a town where somebody dies everyday. Or the city where the most drugs are dealt and you see somebody getting arrested everyday. This is called the environment, and it can affect someone from achieving their goals or dreams. “Camden has been named america's most dangerous city twice by city crime rankings”(Diaz 1). It can be hard for a kid like ivan to achieve his dream when there
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are drugs all over the playground and shootings every night and ivan can't sleep. It can get scary for a young kid like ivan to hear gunshots every night. He might not want to be in that situation and he can get some problems and not function right because he's too scared.another reason is he already moves from house to house so he sees some of the stuff that his mom doesn't want him to see He might want to grow up and somebody could influence ivan to do the wrong thing. That would really stop him from achieving his dream. “Ivan realized that for the first time he’d been without his mother's protection. He was also afraid that the other kids would be mean to him, and he started to cry”( Diaz 1). Ivan had been with his mother all his life with no father. So she's the one that he looks to when he needs protection. But since his mom can't can't be there at school with him. He has no one else to look to because hee does not know anyone there. So he it's all alone and if scared because he thinks the other kids Will make fun of him for some reason. It'd could also be that ivan knows say kind of environment he lives in. One where shootings happen every day. That could be another reason why he might be scared to go to school by himself. “Don't fall she said you might get stuck by the needles. The drug come and put a lot of needles here. They're evil people”( Diaz 2). That is a six year old said that. There are some Ten year oops who don't know west needles Or drugs and drug dealers are. That's dad that a six year old knows that. If moochie was smart enough to know that drugs are bad and that you should stay away from them. Then she might grow up and do drugs because that's all she sees when she goes to the park. Or she might grow up and drink like get dad and become an alcoholic. But she even tells her dad to stop drinking. So she knows what's right. But others do what they see because they're naive to the world and don't know anything. That is just one problem why people don't achieve their dreams. Another reason why they do not is because of poverty. Kids who grow up in poverty have a slim chance of getting out of it. “Nearly a quarter of all kids in michigan live in poverty”(dwyer and guerra 1). This is so shocking looking at these numbers. Studies show that once you are born into poverty it is hard to get out. Also that living in poverty can affect your education. If a child is born to a single mother making 15,000 or less than the child already has some disadvantages, studies show. If this is the case than more than likely the mother wasn't even planning on having the baby. so she's not financially or mentally ready to have a baby yet. “Michigan's infant mortality rate is higher than most states. the average is 8 per 1000 babies, that represents about between 900 and 1000 babies who die before their first birthday”(dwyer and guerra 1). The reason of this is because too many girls who are not financially or mentally ready to have a baby and they have on anyway some of them not on purpose and they don't know how to take care of them. And the ones who do survive, are not living the best life. Some wish they were dead. They are so poor they have get free lunch at school. And don't get any extra privileges. “Nearly one in five pregnant moms in michigan smoke, according to the league. It's one of the biggest indicators for michigan's high infant mortality rate”(dwyer and guerra 2). Most young moms when they have a kid don't care about the baby most didn't even mean to have the baby. so they don't really take care of the baby and just abandon it or give it to the parent. most who smoke also go around having babies so it makes sense that one in five smoke. but people should use protection and not just go bare so that you don't have a baby and kill them because that is the worst thing that you could do is kill a innocent baby because of your mistakes. There are plenty of things that can stop you from achieving your dreams.
But here is one more. Race, yeah that's right there was a lot of segregation back then and there is still some these days. Mostly it's black people that are getting their rights shot down. Just like in the raisin in the sun, with the younger family. “She went out and bought you a house...you glad about the house? it's going to be yours when you get to be a man.”(hansberry 91). This is the scene where mama tells everybody she has bought a house with the new insurance money. Walter already knows what he wants to do with the money. But now he can't do that because mama made an executive decision to buy the family a house. But the problem is, the house is in an all white neighborhood. In the video raisin in the sun Mrs Johnson heard that mama and the younger family are moving to the all white neighborhood and she has something to say about that. She was trying to tell the younger family that the white people don't want them there and could potentially bomb them like they did other black families. But mama doesn't want to hear what Mrs johnson wants to say about that. Because mama doesn't want to believe that she will get killed by some white people. These are the troubles of being african american. They don't get treated properly by white people. And here's another
example. The people of clybourne park had a representative of clybourne park improvement association to come to the younger house to tell the younger family that they don't want some “negroes” living in the all white neighborhood. “But you've got to admit that a man, right or wrong, has the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way. And at the moment the overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background. I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply does not enter into it. It is a matter of the people of clybourne park believing, rightly or wrongly as I say, for the happiness of all concerned that our negro families are happier when they live in their own communities”(hansberry 117 & 118). This is a white man telling some black people that they cannot live in the white community because the white people do not feel comfortable with the negroes living in the same neighborhood as them. And they make it worse by trying to pay them to not live in clybourne park. “Our association is prepared, through the collective effort of our people, to buy the house from you at a financial gain to your family”(Hansberry 118). This is so crazy that they would actually pay this family to not come and live in this all white neighborhood. This shows how much they really hate black people. That they are really going to lose money in order to keep a family of black people out of the neighborhood. Now that is something never heard of. Segregation was bad back then especially for the younger family. Fortunately, it's not as bad today in this day of age. Because if it was this world would be crazy. In conclusion there are many factors that can defer a person's dream or goal, the 3 major ones are environment, poverty, and race. Everyone has dreams, some get tackled, others run away and never get caught.
Dreams deferred usually end up being diminished from existence. In the novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck the characters dreams, which are put on, hold all get destroyed. Lennie's dream was to live on the land in which he owned and to tend the rabbits (pg.14). He finally was almost about to achieve his dream in a month but after working in a ranch for a few days he killed Curly's wife by accident (pg.94) so he dies and also loses all his dreams so his dreams are pessimistic. Also with Lennie's dream being destroyed also George's dream was which was also to live on a ranch so (pg.7). This happens because he can't make his dream reality without Lennie showing pessimistic out view on dreams. Dreams only can bring you so far it all depends on what your destiny is. This is because even though Lennie and George's dreams were crushed even though they tried there hardest to reach them also Candy, Crooks and Curly's wife dreams were ruined too.
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