The Importance Of Dreams In A Raisin In The Sun

Walter struggles in understanding who he needs to be for his family. He wants to take his place as the patriarch of the family, but he feels incapable of providing them with the lifestyle they deserve. This concern is always at the forefront of his mind, and it affects his attitude and outlook. The anxiety that Walter is dealing with creates confrontation with his sister. He fears that her dream will interfere with his own agenda of making a better life for his family. The severity of the tension becomes more and more apparent with Walter’s unwise investment. Walter is dealing with the burden that he has let his family down, while Beneatha is flabbergasted by the reality that her future has been snatched away from her, and she had no control over it. While reflecting on the situation, Beneatha remarks, “ I sound like a human who just had her future taken right out of my hands! While I was sleeping….things were happening in this world that directly concerned me and nobody consulted me—they just went out and did things—and changed my life” (Hansberry 3.15). Walter and Beneatha’s individual issues with the outcome of the situation cause them to find fault with one another during a time when their family needs to pull together to get through such a financial hardship. Walter is in an emotional pit; his turning to alcohol and music instead of his family for support expands the

       Lena, Walter, Ruth, and Beneatha Younger all lived under the same roof, but their dreams were all different. Being the head of the household, Lena dreamed the dreams of her children and would do whatever it took to make those dreams come true. Walter, Lena's oldest son, set his dream on the liquor store that he planned to invest with the money of his mother. Beneatha, in the other hand, wanted to become a doctor when she got out of college and Ruth, Walter's wife, wanted to be wealthy. "A Raisin in the Sun" was a book about "dreams deferred", and in this book that Lorraine Hansberry had fluently described the dreams of the Younger family and how those

Walter seems to be overcome with a search for power and a drive to become wealthy and leave the life of being a worker behind him. It also shows that he cares for his family seeing how he is striving to give them the best, but that aspect is overshadowed by his greed. I feel the scene also shows the Younger family at its lowest point in the movie. Walter is on the complete edge and is thinking of stealing a community's money and the rest of the family, besides Momma, seemed to lose their faith and trust in him. When things seemed hopeless with the loss of the money, they only became worse as a loss in more than money occurred. A loss in their character, faith, history, and respect for each other overcame the family, particularly Walter and Beneatha. Nevertheless, Momma soon sets Beneatha straight with an emotional and positive speech about how there is "always something left to love" and sets the standard that the family should adhere to. It marks the turning point at the end of the movie

In Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun,” she uses the Younger family to show that as characters strive to reach their dreams they often disdain the determinations of others but they may eventually learn to care one another in effort to better their lives. 'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry is a play about a family in the late 1940s that struggles through lack and discrimination to find the American Dream. American Dream the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative. This message explores their hopes and dreams. As it shown in the book that everybody wanted to pursue their own dreams and goals. They weren’t thinking about anybody else but their self. The absence of the American Dream does infiltrate much of the play. Each main character in the play seeks to appropriate the "American Dream" in their own lives. The family consist of the Mama, the deeply Christian grandmother; her son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth and son Travis; and Beneatha, her daughter.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry has many similarities to the Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” speech. Some similarities in both the speech and the book are that there are promises that are not fulfilled, they are both trying to achieve the American Dream, they both care about the future of their children, and they both have dealt with obstacles in their quest for freedom.

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is a play about segregation, triumph, and coping with personal tragedy. Set in Southside Chicago, A Raisin in the Sun focuses on the individual dreams of the Younger family and their personal achievement. The Younger's are an African American family besieged by poverty, personal desires, and the ultimate struggle against the hateful ugliness of racism. Lena Younger, Mama, is the protagonist of the story and the eldest Younger. She dreams of many freedoms, freedom to garden, freedom to raise a societal-viewed equal family, and freedom to live liberated of segregation. Next in succession is Beneatha Younger, Mama's daughter, assimilationist, and one who dreams of aiding people by breaking down

“I have a dream” Do you? Just how close are you to making that dream come true? In her play, Raisin in the Sun , Lorraine Hansberry takes us through the life of an african american family living in the 1950’s and describes their dreams. When she was twenty years old, Hansberry moved to Harlem where she became best friends with Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was an african american poet, social activist, and playwright from Joplin,Missouri. During this time Hughes wrote a poem titled “ Harlem”. Hansberry based her play off of this poem and named it after a line in it, “ Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”(Hughes 2-3). Hansberry won best playwright for this play. She was the first african american to win this award, the youngest and the first woman to win. Hughes poem “ Harlem” is about what happens to a dream deferred. In her play, Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry uses Walter, Momma , and Ruth to show the negative consequences that occur when you put off your dream.

Even with this huge mistake the family pulls together and works through it and finally in the end moves into their new home. Walter’s bad decision does cost them Beneatha’s school money and his liquor store money, but as a strong proud black family they strive together and move into that home that in the end would help them with all their hopes and dreams of living in a better place away from the poverty-stricken side of

Everyone has dreams, whether it is fame, money, intelligence, or power, everybody possesses them. The American Dream is not quite like a typical dream, as it is a belief of a finer life through hard work and dedication. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry tells the story of the Younger family and each of their American Dreams. The Youngers are a substandard African-American family living in the Chicago Southside, when they receive a check for $10,000. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, the characters have to put their own individual dreams aside to achieve the ultimate American Dream of owning a home.

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, and Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Had A Dream” Speech both portray two strong voices in the Civil Rights Movement. Both of these texts take place in the Civil Right’s Movement. The Civil Rights Movement took place in 1950-1960. It was a movement to give African Americans equal rights for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship.

Walter gave all of the money, including the portion Mama designated for Beneatha’s schooling, to a man named Willy. This sudden reversal of fortune devastates the family. Since Willy split town with the Younger’s money, now they have nothing left aside the house Mama put a down payment on. Left feeling trapped by their present dependency on the insurance money due to the move, the Younger’s are beside themselves. The falling action is one of humility as Walter admits to strike a deal with Linder, a white business man who lives in the neighborhood the Younger’s intend to move to.

Have you ever noticed one person with a dream, or passion that truly deserves it but always struggles to reach that dream? Not just everyday humans experience this, but characters within readings even face challenges like ours. The story A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry tells of an African American family striving to reach individual, and shared dreams, though one character preservers for dozens of years before finally reaping success. Mama's dream is the most deserving because she has suffered the longest, carried her family up to this point, all while remaining honorable to her personal beliefs.

Dreams can be either a blessing or a curse. Dreams, driving people everywhere to work their hardest and be the best they can be so maybe one day they may achieve it. Dreams have to ability to eat out of the people’s souls keeping people wondering if they dream may ever happen after always being set aside. The poem “Harlem, A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes perfectly describes the agony of postponed dreams. In the story A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Walter Lee Younger’s dream to own a liquor store takes on the appearance of images described in “Harlem, A Dream Deferred” such as rotten meat and then starts to crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet, then finally after being thrown aside for so long the dream may explode.

In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger struggles with their dreams as they face pecuniary and racial issues. Beneatha has many dreams, most of which require, according to her, an education to pursue. Beneatha seeks to become a doctor and to fight for equality, however, the education to complete such dreams requires money, something of which the Youngers do not have plenty, rendering her dreams deferred.

A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, portrays the struggles of an African-American working class family in the mid-1900s. Of the members of the family one of the more notable is Walter Lee Younger, who feels as though his life is passing him by. At the age of 35 Walter is employed in a demining job with limited options about what to do with is life. As the main provider for the struggling family Walter is conflicted by his dreams of pursuing business and the needs of his family. Although the chains of poverty bind him, Walter has grand plans for his future. Despite hesitation from his family along with the extreme risks he is taking to make financial gains Walter is unable to quench his desire for money until it is satisfied.