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Comparing Asagai's A Raisin In The Sun

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“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different,” Stephen King once said. Truley, books and movies are most of the time the same, but sometimes one rises above the other. In this situation, the movie rises over the book. While reading a Raisin in the Sun it seemed like they stayed in the same spot the whole time. In the movie they showed us and explained all of the places that they mentioned in the book and it gave me the larger picture. The movie a Raisin in the Sun is better than the book because it has more details and gives us a better visualization. Asagai’s character appears both in the movie and the book. However, in the movie Asagai’s personality differs from the book. For example, in the movie Asagai is not yelling at Beneatha or telling her that she has a home, food, and shoes to wear. She does not know that there are people in Nigeria starving for food, that wash the same dishes in the water the kids bathe in. In the book he is getting mad at her for being upset a lot more often. In particular, Asagai is being more flirtatious in the movie than he is in the book. When Asagai first met Beneatha at school …show more content…

For instance, in the beginning of the movie when Walter went to the bar with Willy and Bobo they were walking out and this white cop gave one of them a ticket. Also, in the middle of the movie when the Younger family goes and looks at their new house there are white people looking through their windows staring at them and wondering why are they here. In addition, when Mama went to the grocery store she asked the man for some apples then a white woman asked for some apples and the man gets the apples for the white woman first. Lastly, towards the end of the movie, Mr. Linder comes to there house and tells them that that the “Welcoming Committee” wants to kick them out and give them the money

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