Take this Video Quiz on A Raisin in the Sun by typing your answers in dark blue font and submitting this quiz through the assignments tool. English 1302 A Raisin in the Sun film Quiz According to the particular film that you watched‚ type your response after each question. Double-space your text‚ and double-space between your answers. 1. Give the full name of the director of the film. Kenny Leon 2. Give the full name of the actor who plays Walter Lee Younger. Sean Combs 3. Give the
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he makes fun of her unnatural assimilationist hair and Beneatha is upset because she wants to blend into society‚ instead of sticking out. The second piece of evidence to support that that the word “ hair” was the most important word in A Raisin in the Sun can be seen through hair’s symbolism in the text as a powerful statement from Beneatha that symbolically declares through her opinion that natural is beautiful. Thus‚ she tries to make a powerful statement towards George. He isn’t too happy about
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According to Nicole King‚ "Race is a word and a category that can simultaneously denote a person’s color‚ caste‚ culture‚ and capacities‚ oftentimes depending on what historical‚ political‚ or social forces are at work". A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is an attempt to examine the impact of racial discrimination on the life of an ordinary black family. It is also a testament of this family struggling to manage with racism and poverty in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago’s Woodlawn
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Julia Nunez English 11 Baptist 4 March 2014 Raisin in the Sun The play “A Raisin in the Sun‚” by Lorraine Hansberry is set in between WWII and the present time. The Youngers family of five has lived their lives struggling for money and now that a $10‚000 insurance check is inherited more problems will arise. The American dream means something different to each adult in the family‚ however‚ Walter and his mothers are so dissimilar they conflict with each other numerous times. Walter spends
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versions of goals which lead into different dreams. In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”‚ she shows how amongst a struggling family‚ the individuals have different views on dreams. The play revolves around the Younger family who lives in Chicago in 1949. The family is expecting a check for ten thousand dollars coming from the deceased fathers insurance money. Everyone in the family has a different way of wanting to use it. Mama‚ the mother of the family‚ wishes to buy a new house to provide a
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representation of the white race of that time‚ Walter Lee’s handling Mr. Lindner in A Raisin In the Sun‚ and the oppression of Clay caused by Lula in The Dutchman‚ the very the nature of white and black relations and racism in America‚ and the responses to the oppression‚ that these two characters come to symbolize the great Era that their creators belonged to. While the overall plot progression of A Raisin in the Sun circulates around many characters and their motives‚ goals‚ and ways through which
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You are a family of 5 living in the same household‚ you have just received ten grand from an insurance check from a deceased parent. "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry is a story about a poor family who is living in the southside of Chicago and has just been given an insurance check from their father and Mrs.Younger’s (aka Mama) husband. The check was for $10‚000 which they have been trying to figure out what they are going to be doing with it. Mama‚ Beneatha‚ and Walter all have a dream
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prospect to determine their fates. This theme relates to the three generations of women mentioned in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun because the daily dilemmas and altercations in the Younger family may cause Beneatha‚ Ruth‚ and Mama to convoy the same fate though they have diverse expectations for the future. The role of the younger aged woman in the raisin in the sun addressed as Beneatha Younger is the first stage of development of feminism. Her character would be described as hard headed
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Raising in the sun Walter I have dissected something that looked like you yesterday”(30). This statement made by Beneatha to her brother Walter was missing from the new movie. the novel A Raisin in the Sun was a story of hope‚ legacy‚ racism and dreams for individual people and how they want to achieve them. It is a book that tell you the story of African American people in the 1940’s and what little they had back then and how hard they had to work to achieve their goals.There is more than one
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Beneatha Younger is a strong-willed‚ independent‚ young woman who knows exactly what she wants and she’ll keep fighting till she obtains it. She dreams of being an African-American Doctor which is very rare in her day’s time. Conflict arises when her brother‚ Walter Younger‚ loses the money for Beneatha to go to medical school in a investment incident. She thinks very highly of herself and puts herself before others. Acting as a comedic element‚ Beneatha’s name itself is a play on words because she
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