Zjamario Vaughn Ms.Friar English III 23 May 2024 Sometimes one dream is everyone's dream. In the play ” A Raisin in the Sun ” sometimes a dream you have could be everyone else’s dream too. In the story “ A raisin in the sun “ Lorraine Hansberry talks about how life is for the Youngers in the story. Through all the trials and tribulations, they found a way to still get what they wanted. In “ A Raisin in the Sun” the Youngers talk about how they all wanted a new house in Clybourne Park, but Walter wanted a shop to start a business. To be exact, Walter wanted a liquor store that could be found in “Act 1 Scene 1”. Walter wanted the liquor store only because Walter felt he could gain dignity, pride, respect and he could rise above the …show more content…
Ruth also gets upset because she’s pregnant and in a low income family so having another child would be an extra mouth to feed which would possibly lead to finding another job, or getting extra hours to make the money she gets paid stretch. Even though Ruth and Beneatha never saw eye to eye directly, in “act 1 scene 2 ” it was shown that Beneatha cared for Ruth. Author Lorraine Hansberry also shows how Beneatha was uncertain but also worried about Ruth’s health while pregnant. Meanwhile Lena was excited that Ruth was pregnant, but when Lena found out that Ruth tried to abort the baby she felt a certain way “act 1 scene 1”. Meanwhile, as Lena was feeling a certain way, she proceeded to tell Walter. Walter heard the news about Ruth being pregnant and getting an abortion. First, Walter could not and did not believe that Ruth would do such a thing. Ironically Ruth walks out of the room where Lena and Walter were and confirms that she has paid the down payment on the service “Act 1 Scene 2”. Throughout the essay I come to realize that I’ve never really taken the time out to talk about the son of Walter and Ruth Younger. Travis is the child of Ruth …show more content…
Throughout the story, Walter begins to lose his selfish and arrogant attitude. Soon the Younger family tried to move into the house that was located in Clybourne Park, but this one man named Lindner thought otherwise. Lindner proceeds to try and bribe Walter with money, saying he would pay him large amounts just to not move into the neighborhood “act 2 scene 3 “. With Walter being a changed man, Walter proceeds to not take the bribe and moves his family into the new house in Clybourne Park, causing everyone in the family to finally be happy. The theme you should learn from the play, “A Raisin in the Sun” is that money is the root of all evil, but having loving people around would be the conqueror of evil. This is said because throughout the play everyone turned on everyone because of the money, but in reality all it takes is a pure heart and real love to view things
One of the first ideas mentioned in this play, A Raisin In the Sun, is about money. The Younger's end up with no money because of Walter's obsession with it. When Walter decides not to take the extra money he is offered it helps prove Hansberry's theme. Her theme is that money can't buy happiness. This can be seen in Walter's actions throughout the play.
Each character in A Raisin in the Sun has grown through out the play. The first character I will begin to talk about is Walter Lee Younger (brother). He is Passionate, ambitious, and bursting with the energy of his dreams, Walter Lee is a desperate man, influenced by with poverty and prejudice, and obsessed with a business idea that he thinks will solve all of his problems. He believes that through his business idea, he will collect all the money he will ever need. Once he has done so, he will improve himself socially and be able to impress others.
At the beginning of the play, Walter is a self centered character. In a conversation with Mama, Walter wants to make sure she does not spend all the money. Walter states, “Where were you, mama? Mama, You didn’t go do something with that insurance money, something crazy” (P. 90). It is revealed that Walter is desperate for money and achieving his big idea of owning a liquor store. It’s important to know that this money is Mama’s and not Walters to spend. Instead of being the man of the house
Walter is confronted by the event of having another child when his wife, Ruth, shares the information about what has happened and what her plans are to resolve and continue the scenario. Walter brings to topic of his importance to the scenario, and decides to break away from the event and think of his answer towards his wife’s information and response. He later is shown the understanding of his wife by the reaction of his mother, who questions his standing on how his father would have reacted. This brings Walter to think of why he should change and not walk out on times of importance. Walter discovers that his turmoil of drinking and appearance on the topic could lose the life of his newly developing child.
From the play Raisin in the Sun, the decision that Walter makes to move his family to an all-white neighborhood proves how he's matured into a responsible, loving father. One can see evidence of Walter’s transformation through his sacrifice, as well as,his acts of courage.
The American dream has been visualized and pursued by nearly everyone in this nation. Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is a play about the Younger family that strived for the American dream. The members of the Younger family shared a dream of a better tomorrow. In order to reach that dream, however, they each took different routes, which typified the routes taken by different black Americans.
Lauren Oliver once said, “I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up” (Good Reads). This quote connects very well to the play, A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry. The quote conveys the message that if one loves someone, one must give things up. A Raisin in the Sun is about an African-American family living in the south side of Chicago in the 1950s. The Younger family is a lower-class family that has been struggling to make their dreams come true. One of the character’s in the play named Walter Lee has been struggling to make his dreams come true. Walter’s changes that are shown tie to the quote written by Lauren Oliver. The changes that are seen in Walter Lee throughout the book, A Raisin in the Sun, reflects the theme that one must sacrifice something for the love and happiness of one’s family.
Their sadness at unfulfilled dreams overlain with the burden of Ruth's pregnancy gets out of hand when Walter says, "Who even cares about you?" The two of them realize at that time that their relationship has dwindled to nothing but nagging and rude comments. Walter may be sorry for having said that to his wife, because he probably loves her, but he is at the end of his rope. He feels that every dream he has had has been taken away from him, either by bad timing or by the white man in general. Ruth, on the other hand, has never had any other dream except to keep her family together and in working order, and now that is falling apart.
A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry. The primary focus of the play is the American Dream. The American Dream is one’s conception of a better life. Each of the main characters in the play has their own idea of what they consider to be a better life. A Raisin in the Sun emphasizes the importance of dreams regardless of the various oppressive struggles of life.
In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; the theme of the play is when people are in poverty, lust increases. The play is about the Youngers, who are a family that just got an insurance check for the death of Mr. Younger for $10,000. Since they have this money, each family member has something they want to use the money for. They could not spend too much on anything and they were spending very little money in order to save it. They had to be very resourceful of where they placed their money.
Have you ever found money coming between you and your family and disrupting love and life? Money can destroy families and change them for the worse. In the Raisin in the Sun, the author Lorraine Hansberry, uses events of her life to relate and explain how the Younger family, of Chicago's South side, struggles and improves throughout the book. One main cause for their family's problems is because of money and how it causes anger to control the family. The play deals with situations in which the family is dealing with unhappiness from money. Walter, the man of the house in the Younger family, tries impressing Travis, his son, too much with money instead of teaching him the more important lessons of life. Walter also dreams to invest in a liquor store and make a lot of money and becomes overwhelmed and badly caught up in his dream. Lastly, the Younger family is much too dependent on the check their Mama is receiving. The family has lost the fact that their mama tries to tell them, before, freedom was life but now money seems to have the controlling factor in life. When money becomes an obsession for a family, problems occur.
In “A Raisin in the Sun”, Walter, the main character of the play, demonstrates transformation. Walter’s actions are guided by his belief that money is a panacea, until
Walter destroyed what you would call a family. You would think that money could be the solution of all of your problems, but instead Walter let the insurance money influence him and let it control him. A Raisin in the Sun is a play that took place in the 1950s in Southside Chicago which made a major difference on how family acted towards each other. When Walter spends all of the money that Mama has trusted him with Beneatha, Mama, and Ruth are disappointment at him. Even at one point Beneatha states “Bad? Say anything bad to him? No-I told him he was a sweet boy and full of dreams and everything is strictly peachy keen, as the ofay kids say!” With this, you can see that Beneatha is beyond disappointed and she believes that Walter cannot be saved from his illness which is in this case the money. According to Masterplots,Fourth Edition November 2010,p1-3 it states “These opportunities, however, create tensions and competition in the Younger family dramatized by Walter’s verbal battles with his mother and sister and Beneatha’s arguments with her mother. Moreover, the elusiveness of these dreams create frustration that leads to bitterness.”(Tackach). What I believe this quote indicates is that since the Younger family knew about insurance money there has been competition between the Youngers siblings deciding who gets the money either if it Walter for his
In ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, Lorraine Hansberry describes each of the family’s dreams and how they are deferred. In the beginning of the play Lorraine Hansberry chose Langston Hughes’s poem to try describe what the play is about and how, in life, dreams can sometimes be deferred.
Dreams of owning a business and having money to accomplish goals are two key parts played out throughout the whole process. Walter Younger is determined to have his own business and he will go to ends meet to see that dream come true. Financial bridges are crossed and obstacles arise when Walter makes a bad decision regarding money that could have helped the family and not only himself, if he had thought smarter. His pride and dignity are tested throughout the story and he is forced to set up for his family. The Raisin in the Sun helps readers to understand the history of racial discrimination and how racial discrimination has an effect on the people in the late 1950s and early 1960s as well as how that has an effect on the characters within the play.