Raisin In The Sun American Dream

What is the american dream? The american dream is the ideal that every U.S citizen should have equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination,and innovative. All People try to achieve there goal and they try so hard to accomplish them. Like Mama, she tries hard to achieve her goal for her family to have a great and safe life. In the book “raisin in the sun”,mama shows she is the american dream because she wants freedom, she wants her family to be happy, and happiness for her family.

How does the house mean freedom to mama? One of the ways mama compares to the american dream is that she shows her freedom through the house. “ In my time we was worried about not being lynched and getting to the north if we could and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity too…”(raisin in the sun pg.55).This quote is saying that mama is telling walter how back then she wanted to have the freedom with her husband but they couldn't because of the racist people not letting them be free.”Oh-so now it's life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now

Another goal that is in mama’s american dream is the care she has towards her family. Mama cares for her family throughout the whole book. She looks out for everyone in her family and is a very selfless person. Like for example this quote says,”There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else-if it means- if it means its going to destroy my boy”.(raisin in the sun pg.79). This quote is explaining how the she will give up anything for her boy (family) in any situation and she will help him at all costs. Another quote is “There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that ,you ain't learned nothing”(sparknotes a raisin in the sun ). This quote is saying that there is always something to love and she will always love her family. More examples of Mama's american dream is her own