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Raisin In The Sun Beneatha
A Raisin in the Sun is about a black family that lives in a small apartment and is trying to make everything work out. The importance, people may think is to show no matter what is just to try and get whatever you aspire to get in life. Beneatha had a dream of being a doctor but it did not come true when the family lost all it’s money. In Lorraine Hansberry’s, A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha is described as a beautiful woman.
(She is about twenty, as slim and intense as her brother. She is not as pretty as her sister-in-law, but her lean, almost intellectual face has a handsomeness of its own. She wears a red flannel nightie, and her thick hair stands wildly about her head) (35).
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And you’ve stopped caring? BENEATHA. Yes- I think so. ASAGAI. Why? BENEATHA. (Bitterly) Because it doesn’t seem deep enough, close enough to what ails mankind! It was a child’s way of seeing things-or an idealist’s (133).
Therefore, her dream does not come true. She sees that you can heal people physically but you can never heal who they are. Another unsaid reason is that they just don’t really have the money for it. Though her dream here did not work out things still look up for her. Since her dream of becoming a doctor didn’t quite work out. She now has unlimited choices to pick from. BENEATHA. Mama, Asagai asked me to marry him today and go to Africa. MAMA. (In the middle of her getting-ready activity) He did? You ain’t old enough to marry nobody-(seeing the moving men lifting one of her chairs precariously) Darling, that ain’t no bale of cotton, please handle it so we can sit in it again! I had that chair twenty-five years… (the movers sigh with exasperation and go on with their work) BENEATHA. (Girlishly and unreasonably trying to pursue the conversation) To go to Africa, Mama- to be a doctor in Africa…
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She would get married to Asagai, who is the one she wanted to marry and she would still be able to be a doctor, if she wants. Beneatha is a young girl who had dreams of practicing medicine in the states but was not able to, so she wants to go to Africa to practice. Comparing Beneatha to the broader world her story is not hard to relate to. Many people have had to put their dreams on pause due to financial problems. THen pick it back up somewhere else. People should not kill dreams because there is always another way it can work, just have to look at it from the other side. Moral of the story, do not let your dreams die for

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