Multidimensional Characters In Clifford Odets's 'Awake And Sing'

The play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ by ‘Lorraine Hansberry’ is about a matriarchy, Lena Younger or known as “Mama” to her family the Youngers who are poverty stricken family. She is about to receive insurance money from her husband’s life insurance policy, which is rightfully hers. However each member of the Youngers family we come into contact with have a plan to use the money for themselves, each individual’s through-line plays a vital role in their dreams, thoughts and choices in the end. Throughout the play the family have experiences that money can’t buy happiness and the effects of racial prejudice emerge.

life in the mid to late twentieth century and the strains of society on African Americans. Set in a small neighborhood of a big city, this play holds much conflict between a father, Troy Maxson, and his two sons, Lyons and Cory. By analyzing the sources of this conflict, one can better appreciate and understand the way the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work.

To try to deal with his memory of his parents and sister Bella, Jacob develops ways to repress his memories of losing his family during the Holocaust. His painful memories of losing his parents haunt him throughout his life. Memories that are so vivid, he has a difficult time letting go of his past most importantly his sister Bella whom he admires and loves unconditionally. His growing affection toward his sister and trying to recreate his memories leads him to create his view

Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies, Ralph tries his best to create a society based on survival. As time progresses, it is clear that Jack's feelings are towards living life and having fun. Jack's society eventually leads to corruption, killing innocent people, while Ralph's prevails as the boys are rescued. Ralph uses a repetition of hope towards being saved while Jack's technique with no thought clearly flounders creating savages out of the once civilized boys.

He had made plenty of friends such as: Braeden Schoenherr, Emma Hannasch, and Katelyn Daily. Those were also the people he grew up with. That’s one of the many perks of growing up in a small town, you knew everyone. The people he went to Preschool with were the people he ended up graduating high school with. He was a good student, always brought home good grades, and he held a job while in high school. He started out at Fareway for about a year, but then decided to move jobs to the local Pizza Hut in Carroll. He was astounding at his job there. In less than a year he went from being a server there, to becoming a manager. As he went through high school, he progressively did great things. He graduated in the top five of his class, and got a scholarship to DMACC for the two years that he was going to attend college. He went to DMACC for business management and graduated at the top of his class. At the age of 25 he got married in the fall of 2025. Three years later on Christmas Eve, he was blessed with his first son, Leroy. Jacob was such a kind and great father. He always wanted the best for his son, even if it did make him upset with him. He made sure his son knew that he was loved, but not

We are introduced to an eager and naïve Jacob in the initial stages of the novel. However, Jacob is introduced to the cruelties of the world all too suddenly, when the death of his parents is abruptly thrust upon him. It states, “I snap out of my stupor. There are people on that train. It matters not a whit where it’s going because

(Jacobs, p. 18). Hearing these things would make Jacob’s despise him and become angry and upset. The only thing that would keep her going was to obey her master and to “be good, because perhaps that would bring us contentment.” (Jacobs, p. 18). Jacob’s remained a good servant to her master until certain times forbade it and she had to retaliate against him.

He realizes that helping his friends will make him a better person. He risks his own life to save his family, Jacob and Oteka run from a lion so the lion can follow Jacob and leave Hannah, Paul, and Norman alone, Oteka yells at Jacob, “RUN!” Oteka said ( McKay 175). Jacob asks, “What is it? What is it?”(McKay 175). This is important because, risking ur life for others makes you look like a good person. He also goes to battle to get food for Norman. This was a really dangerous choice he made. “You-do you fight today?” asked Lizard (McKay 134). Food is a need for Norman, this reaches us that sometimes you have lose to gain something. This shows that Jacob learns from his

Jacob’s roles in the book are shown through the use of symbols, posture, and facial expression. One role is that he is being protective over Emma. He has his hand in front of her, like he is trying to keep her safe. In Miss. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children Jacob say that his “grandfather had trampled her poor, pining heart, and the wound was still raw, even these many years later. [He] thought of putting [his] arm around her” (Riggs 233). He doesn’t just want to protect Emma from the monsters but he also wants to protect her feelings. In the tableau Jacob shows he is very focused. As he faces Dr. Golan he said that he

His acute stress disorder from the incident keeps the words constantly on his mind, and when he goes to help his family finally clean out his grandpa's house so it can be sold, his aunt Susie finds a book, The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson with Jacob's name written in it, saying it's for him. She gives him the book for his sixteenth birthday, shortly after she found it. As Jacob holds the book in

The striving for being rich and have a wealthy life has always been present in the American society. Often living in a capitalistic society leads people to become greedy, and as a result many become too materialistic. This may happen because of the challenge to pursue the American dream where most of Americans are trying to fulfill it. Unfortunately, for most of people it is very difficult to acquire this high status and to secure a spot in the upper-class society. Arthur Miller's, Death of a Salesman, and Lorraine Hansberry's, A Raisin the Sun, are two plays that reveal two main characters: Willy Loman and Walter Lee Young, characters that reflect typical features of the people who struggles to achieve the American Dream. Although they may have common characteristics and share similarities, they also have numerous issues and are very different, setting them apart from other families and even each other. Therefore, the main focus of this paper will be to compare and put in contrast these two great characters.

When a person gets old they become forgetful and forgetting your memories is frightening, that’s why Jacob is concerned about his poor memory.

Jacob Martin was a family man with a wife and two kids. His kids meant the world to him and he would do anything to keep them safe. With this being said Jacob did have some financial issues. Jacob worked for a sales company based in Boston called Levi’s Trades. Jacob was one of the top salesman for the company so he in turn had to do a lot of traveling. Jacob’s wife Crystal was the most beautiful girl in the world to him, but she was never able to hold down a job do to her lack of skills in pretty much anything. Because of this Jacob was the sole income source for his family. He was always a very happy go lucky man but do to the fact that he works on commission, and business has been slow, he hasn’t been able to meet his

Jacob presents a more “freedom” lifestyle but still uniformed at the same time. Even with this modern style of living though, there were rules that may seem unusual to someone living in this time period.

As mentioned before, Jacob is the youngest child of the family. He is fighting for attention from his siblings and his parents almost every day. Most of his art projects are displayed around the house, along with his sibling’s art. He does fight for attention from his