Comparing The American Dream In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

“I always thought it was the one concrete thing in the world that a human being could do. Fix up the sick, you know – and make them whole again [...] It used to be so important to me. I wanted to cure. It used to matter. I used to care. I mean about people and how their bodies hurt” sheds light into Beneatha’s passion. Her zeal is to be a doctor and cure others. When she first meets a college classmate from Africa, Beneatha's enthusiasm for the medical field shifts to her ancestors. “You came up to me and you said… "Mr. Asagai – I want very much to talk with you. About Africa. You see, Mr. Asagai, I am looking for my identity!" is her first interaction with the acquaintance, Asagai. Rather than solely caring about her dream, Beneatha shows more interest in learning about her African roots. Throughout the play, she is tied between two opposing sides: being a doctor and recognizing her African roots. Being a doctor allows her to assimilate in American culture, but

In Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun a number of social issues are both explicitly and subtly exemplified through out the characters experiences and relationships. Living in a cramped Chicago apartment, the Youngers’ display both influential goals and conflicting restraints. Beneatha Youngers is a controversial character; she complicates society’s typical gender roles, introduces the wrestle between assimilation and ancestry of African-Americans, but specifically serves as a paradigm for her generation in the play.

Dreams don’t always work out the way you want them to. Beneatha, in A Raisin in the Sun, had many big dreams, not all easily achievable. Many of them, also never came true for her, and then some of them did. Beneatha’s character traits explain dreams, and how sometimes they don't come true. Beneatha's independence, indecisiveness, and modern views of society all help describe what Lorraine Hansberry is trying to make readers think about while reading A Raisin in the Sun.

In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry you go back in time to when segregation was still aloud. In this play you meet a cast of people with dreams of a better life. The American Dream, to be specific. This dream is portrayed differently for each character, all of which impact the play. Two of these character

Everybody in this world has their own dream of being successful, In the play “Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry shows that. Throughout Lorraine’s life she had to deal with segregation and racism, which put her in a difficult situation of becoming successful. This book shows a character named Beneatha stand out about her beliefs and goal. In the play Beneatha shows that she believes in herself, she’s independent and she’s optimistic.

(page 45-46)” In the first act alone, the audience is shown the great disparities between the American dream for a white man and the American dream for people of color. However, now with this insurance money from Big Walter’s death, there is a chance of someone their dream, the problem that the Younger’s face is which someone should get to use the money. Beneatha needs it for college to become a doctor, Walter needs it to invest in a liquor store so he can finally “be somebody.” But Mama wants to use that money to buy a house. She wants to leave their current rented apartment and she wants a nice house in the suburbs where she could have a garden and “with a yard where Travis could play in the summer. (page 44)” Mama believes that a change of scenery is what the family needs and that it will bring them back together. These three characters have the most conflicting wants for the

America provides opportunity to achieve the American Dream yet so many argue that it is impossible today. The American Dream consists of having opportunity to be someone financially stable and having success in your life. It is a long road to the American Dream with many obstacles on the way. Everyone is given an opportunity to start, with education being free. It is up to the person to decide whether they will continue their education to open more opportunities for their future. The American Dream is a reality that can be achieved today through hard work, self-perseverance and motivation to succeed.

The play by Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, presents an African-American family living in poverty in the 1950’s. The family receives ten thousand dollars from deceased Mr. Younger’s insurance; the money is supposed to be distributed in buying a house, Beneatha’s education, and Walter’s liquor store investment. However, Walter invests wrongly and loses more than half of the money, forcing Beneatha to consider moving to Africa to pursue an education. Beneatha Younger’s struggle with segregation while pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor demonstrates that education can be obtained with determination and discipline.

“ 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 fuels the conflict and drives the story forward. Beneatha is a young college student and the sister of Walter. She has a dream of becoming a doctor. Beneatha is a dynamic character who is easily influenced by her family and the people

Like a personal god, dreams lift us above the sorrow of reality, providing the entrance of hope, the gates to the better. However, as we chase this god that may or may not await for us at the end of the road, the journey remains as an insightful beginning for another chase, down another road. As portrayed in the play A raisin the the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger’s who resides in the Southside of Chicago, is family with “traveler[s],[who] look[s] down [on their road] as far as [one] could”(Frost). Within a family full of dreamers who have been struggling against money, the Youngers have accepted money be the shaper of their dreams. In the play, Lorraine Hansberry uses monologues, juxtapositions and hyperboles to present how each character

The reality of the American Dream is that people are capable of succeeding. Success, though, requires one to work hard and be dedicated to

“The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream” (Hilfiger). That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The American Dream has to do with what makes people happy and what they want, but it also has to do with political agendas such as: freedom of religion, the right to vote, and the right to earn a living. All Americans have equal access to this. As long as you work hard, your American Dream can come true.

The American dream something that is promoted as attainable for everyone is in reality not. Money, race and greed keep many people from attaining the American dream or the idea that every solution should have equal opportunity. While money and racism are significant obstacles to reaching the American dream in a Raisin In The Sun greed is the biggest obstacle. Racism is one of the obstacles to reaching the American dream because of controversy. This is proven and Raisin In The Sun when Walter is speaking to Mama.

Ambitious and independent, a person will go through whatever it takes to be able to achieve an important goal in their life. They will be devoted to their goal if it has some importance to it, will show defiance, and will try until it is completed. In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, a play about a family facing different problems in their lives, has a character named Beneatha Younger. Beneatha Younger, is a young, independent, well educated African American woman who struggles to find herself and what she believes in, all while being doubted about the path she wants to take in life to become a doctor. During the 1950s in the city Chicago, Beneatha lives with the rest of the Younger family.

     Beneatha is an intellectual. Twenty years old, she attends college and is better educated than the rest of the Younger family. Some of her personal beliefs and views have distanced her from conservative Mama. She dreams of being a doctor and struggles to determine her identity as a well-educated black woman. She realizes her brother, Walter, dislikes the idea of spending the insurance money on the college tuition but is determined to be successful in her life: “BENEATHA: What are you talking about Ruth? Listen, I’m going to be a doctor … first I’m going to be a doctor! (I.i pg. 50)” Beneatha builds her frustration upon the doubts of her brother. When Walter