Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Mama is an exquisite character, she is the head of the house and has also shared some very strong and powerful thoughts with Walter. For example, “If you a son of mine, tell her! You…. you are a disgrace to your father’s memory. Somebody get me my hat!” This quote is an example of Mama being an exquisite character because this is the most vivid thing Mama said. Mama was saying this to Walter, showing her humiliation towards hi actions, and the man he is starting to become. Additionally, “Mama absorbs this speech, studies her daughter and rises slowly and crosses at Beneatha and slaps her powerfully across the face. After…. her” These are stage direction of Mama, and this is showing that Mama has a line and the way Beneatha

She knows that the family, education and society rule are so important. She is not very well educated, but she insists to maintain the personality that people are supposed to be. “Now don’t you start child. It’s to early in the morning to be talking about money. It ain’t Christian.” (41) In the morning, Ruth and Mama has a conversation in kitchen. Ruth tells Mama that Walter wants to use father’s insurance money to invest a liquor company. Mama cannot completely agree with her son. Mama complains that once upon a time freedom used to be life, but now it’s money. On the other hand, she loves her husband because he is worth to be loved. Mama wishes her sun modeled himself after his father. She never felt shame of being laundryman. She is respectably dressed as much as possible. She is a high head when in front of those white people who despise black people. “I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers—but ain’t nobody in my family never ley nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk the warth. We ain’t never been that poor. We ain’t never been that—dead inside.” (143) After she buys the house, the white people in community try to ding out the Youngers’ family. They pay more money to ask them move out. As a black woman, Mama is proud of her skin and keeps her unique personality. She refer to live harder, rather than letting people trampling on her with money.

In A Raisin in the Sun, by Loraine Hansberry, each character views the world in extremely varying manners. Upon first meeting the Youngers the traits of ambition, fulfillment, and longing are all present within the family. Each character takes on a unique world view, and their varying perspectives often clash. From the very beginning of the play, Walter argues with his wife Ruth over matters of money. These battles for power and control are regular occurrences in the Younger household. The most significant of these battles is between Mama and Walter. In the initial sections of the play, most of these arguments revolve around Mama’s recently acquired money. Walter and Mama have opposing perspectives on how to spend the money. Walter believes

In the book A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a book about a black family in the 1950’s living under Jim Crowe laws they live in a tiny apartment in Chicago, many characters influence the plot to this story Walter and Ruth Influence the plot the most. Walter is a big character in the story because he is one of the main causes of all the conflict he does this by always wanting the money he thinks he should be the provider for the family not moma and he always thinks his way is the best way. This happens when he says, “That was my biggest mistake” He referred to his wife Ruth as the biggest mistake of his life when they wouldn’t tell him if the money came In.

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Lee Younger and Lena Younger (Mama) shoe that family is the most important relationship in our lives. There are many events where Mama supports Walter in his decisions, and believed in him when everyone else failed to. These events show that family will be there for you through thick and thin better than anyone else, and they believe in you when other don't.

Mama attempts to reference back to Big Walter in certain situations to use him as an example to show her family the true meanings of sacrifice and unification within a family. The Raisin in the Sun refers back to Big Walter and how he labored so hard for his family all the time. He put his dreams aside, which ended up drying up like “A Raisin in the Sun” (M’baye 171). Mama says, “Yes, [he was] a fine man- just couldn’t never catch up with his dreams that’s all” (Hansberry 30). Mama refers back to Big Walter as an example for her family to see because Big Walter worked his but off for the important things in life like family. He had dreams like everybody does, but he did not ever get so caught up that he lost track of his priorities. He labored day and night for his family to have everything they needed. That is the example Mama tries to use to talk to her children about family. Big Walter did whatever he had to do to supply for his family whether that meant working a few extra hours or even a few extra days. Every once and a while he may have worked an extra job just to provide the

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In the play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, It takes place in the family’s apartment in 1950’s. All of the characters influenced the plot greatly. But the two characters that influenced the plot the most are Walter and Mama. They are most important because Walter during the whole play wants the money for himself. But Mama wants to use the money for the family to make everyone happy and to be safe.

Sebastian S. Ms. Barbarich English 11 January 12, 2018 The Development of the Younger Family In the play “The Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry the Younger family develops as a whole with each major character of the family changing throughout the story. With the entire family moving to a white neighborhood they have to prepare themselves as they move into the new home with hope as the central conflict is being reached. Walter’s decision making, cause the lack of hope coming through out the window, but at the the end of the story he finally makes a right choice after being chosen man of the house by Mama. The connection between Walter and Mama grew stronger with each other when Mama made the choice of giving the man of the house role to Walter.

slaps her powerfully across the face.)” and also saying this, “Now- you say after me, in my mother’s house there is still God.” One last thing that Mama does to influence the plot by taking charge is getting

To start, Mama does not understand how Ruth and Walter can be so unappreciative and fail to recognize what they do have versus what they do not have. Regarding Ruth and Walter's generation, there seems to be an abundance of self-perceived shame. They hold little pride in the jobs they hold. Walter abhors his job as a chauffeur and takes little appreciation in the fact that he has a job at all, as pointed out by Mama. Because of this miniscule amount of pride, they seem to have difficulty being proud of anyone else.

Mama, however, is strong, spiritual and eager to help her children in any way she can. She values family above and beyond all else, but has the deep insight into the other character's motivations even when she doesn't agree. In the middle of the play (at the fuse for the final conflict), she recognizes that Walter is miserable because no one believes in him and his dreams. She gives him a large chunk of the insurance check to invest in a liquor store even thought she doesn't agree with it. She trusts him with it and, when he loses the money to a "trusted friend," she becomes enraged and begins to physically attack him. However, by the next scene she has forgiven him and tells her daughter that she should do the same; "There is always something to love: when do you think the time is to love somebody the most? It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so!" With those words, Mama seems to symbolize all that is good, solid and peaceful in the world.

Mama is a Christian and was clearly bothered by the fact that her daughter Beneatha did not believe in God. The other struggle comes with Walter’s obsession for money using his rich-quicks schemes. She entrusted Walter with the $6,500 that he later completely loses. In the end she is happy with Walter’s better decisions at the end, of the play.

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