not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations‚ but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in‚ but with what it is still possible for you to do.”- Pope John XXIII. Everybody has dreams or goals that they want to achieve in order to better their future‚ or the future of their family. Everybody also has challenges that they have to overcome in order to make these hopes and dreams come true. An example of this can be seen
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A Raisin In The Sun In this play‚ A Raisin In The Sun‚ the Author Lorraine Hansberry shows how dreams are being chased‚ how important money could be‚ and how the race could make a difference. Everybody may have their own dream‚ different point of view on money‚ and may be a different race‚ but all those terms can be relatable. This Chicago family has experienced it all throughout this play. In the play A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the characters all had their own dreams that
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Bart Studnicki English 102 Raisin in the Sun Analysis 09-29-2009 The Sacrifice of Walter Lee Younger Throughout the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ the Younger family struggles to come together as a family. One of the main impediments in their unity is their differing views on the world. Each character has their own dream and is unwilling to sacrifice that dream for anything. They are afraid of having their dream deferred. Their dreams‚ especially Walter Lee’s‚ break the family apart
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Myth of the American Dream Was the “American Dream” a myth or reality for Americans living from 1865-1900s? The “American Dream” was not a reality for African-Americans‚ immigrants‚ and Native Americans. For example‚ for Native Americans (Indians)‚ life was not a dream at all because they lost their lands and freedom. After the Civil War‚ African-Americans were given their freedom and no longer slaves. They were given the right to vote with the 15th Amendment stating the that United
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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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The American Dream is idolized by many. Family is often the backbone of any successful person. Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin In The Sun is about the Younger family. The Younger’s are hard working African Americans living on very low income. The family can only afford a small apartment for the five of them. The importance of family can clearly be seen through the characters of Mama‚ Walter‚ and Ruth. Mama shows the importance of pride. She is prideful of her husband who worked his entire life‚ and
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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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Raisin in the Sun reflects the author‚ Lorraine Hansberry; with the starring Younger family during the 1950s and 60s. Her life was riddled with controversy‚ from her upbringing to the different movements and clubs she participated in. Granting her the experience to reflect the conflict between blacks and whites. She merged the feminist movement‚ The Great Migration‚ and the redlining and covenants into her play with ease. Giving us the opportunity to reenact what it would have been like to live in
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1. When does Act III begin? What are Walter and Beneatha doing? When Asagai ar rives at the apartment‚ how does his mood contrast with Walter’s and Beneatha’s? 2. How has the loss of the money changed Beneatha’s optimism? What does she tell Asagai? What is Asagai’s response? 3. Throughout this scene‚ the stage directions say Walter is listening to Beneatha and Asagai talk. What is Walter’s reaction to their conversation? 4. How does Asagai define idealists and realists? Which group does he
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A Raisin In The Sun There are many choices that people make everyday that can I‚pact the rest of their lives. When making a decision that can strongly affect someone‚ it is important that they make the best one they can. For example‚ if someone were to make a decision off of only what they know about it‚ they might not end up in the best place they could. In the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ there is a very important decision that the characters must collectively make in order for them to have their
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