Mohammad Saifan Raisin in the Sun Analysis What makes a person make a good choice or a bad choice? What influences that person? Is it the people around that person? These are all questions to wonder about, and in the end of the script it is all answered. Walter in “A Raisin in The Sun,” by Lorraine Hansbery, is a character surrounded by women who do not understand him. Over the course of the story, Walter makes many choices that change their lives in the story, because of Ruth, Beneatha, and Mama
Character Analysis “ A Raisin in the Sun” is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry about the life of an African American family during the era of segregation. The play starts off with the Younger family receiving a 10,000 dollar check from Mr. Younger’s insurance policy. The family argues over what they are going to do with it. Mama wants to buy a house with it, Walter wants to invest in a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to use the money to go to medical school. The contrast of the characters’ personalities
Dave Ramsey. Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, 1959 was about Walter and his family struggles in poverty living in a small apartment. Mama then receives $10,000 check from the insurance company and that’s when everything changes. By the end of the play Walter and his family, then move out to a new neighborhood where they will live happily and face new struggles that are worthwhile. Lorraine Hansberry reveals one of her themes through the character of Walter by showing us that family is
and preferences of the decision-maker. Our decisions are consequently what dictates our types of living conditions and can expand as far as determining our own health or the health of our families. In Lorraine Hansberry’s story A Raisin In The Sun the fictional character from the book, Mama, decides to use the insurance money she received from the loss of her husband to move out of her current neighborhood to move
life people have ups and downs; the characters in A Raisin in the Sun experience many highs and many lows. Throughout the story there are many decisions that the characters toss around and debate. Mama, the mother of the family, receives $10,000 which is a very large sum of money for their family. It is up to Mama to decide where the money should go. The Characters in the story developed and their true desires are shown through the choices they make. The characters are faced with many obstacles and
fought for educational opportunities and equality for all. The want and fight for these basic rights are shown in Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”. Beneatha Younger, a main character in the book, demonstrated the want for an education. Although Beneatha Younger is not a real person, she still has a lot in common with Shirley Chisholm. In “A Raisin in the Sun”, Beneatha Younger is a young African American living in South Side, Chicago with her mother and her brother. During the play, she is
soul longs for the satisfaction of meeting a goal? The obstacles along the way may cause one trouble, but one still strives for that personal satisfaction of knowing something grand was accomplished. A Raisin In The Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, gives off many aspects of the story’s characters wanting the reward of being able to say, “I did it”. Beneatha Younger, a passionate, strong-willed woman will do whatever it takes to pursue her dream of attending medical school. Along the way of wanting
In the play a Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee Younger is an African American man who portrays the role of a father, son, and husband. He has a dream to invest the incoming inherence into something that may help his family in the future. Once this idea comes to him it takes over his mind, and he cannot stop thinking about it. It acts as though its a drug, he addicted to talking about it. Also, when it is brought up in a conversation and someone disagrees he become very defensive. In addition, he is
In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, Mama has the role of being a mother figure for all of the characters. She is a very outgoing women who loves her family. Overall, Mama wants her family to succeed in life. In addition, when it comes to momentous family decisions she does what she believes is best for everyone. However, other members of the family sometimes have contradicting beliefs, which makes them feel like their house is matriarchal. I believe that their house is Matriarchal, but Mama’s decisiveness
is blinded,” Proverb. Lorraine Hansberry wrote “A Raisin in the Sun,” 1959. A family named the Youngers live in a small apartment in Chicago’s South Side. The Youngers are an African American family that has a difficult time going on in life with peaks and valleys throughout the play. In the end, the Youngers manage to move out of the apartment and into a house, looking for a better future. Hansberry reveals one of her themes through the character of Walter Lee. In Act I, Walter is a man wants