Raisin Under The Sun Reflection

I would choose Mr. and Mrs. Finney as the mother and father because they are more a part of their children’s life. I like how they praticipate in the parent’s activities at school and how they cheer on their kids at events. I dispised Pheobe in some parts of the book because of her bossy actions. One of the parts I didn’t like was when she had dinner at the Finney’s house and she was telling them not to eat certain foods and was making them go out their way to please her. I also didn’t like when she spent the night at Sal’s house and she was telling her how she shouldn’t have a soft mattress or how she said that she wasn’t sacrificing enough for her guest.
The theme I choose is, “Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his mocassains”. The theme is statting not to judge a man beffore you have been through what he has. One example of this theme is when Pheobe thinks Mike was a lunatic and kiddnapped her mother. The theme
Birkway their teacher read the journal that Mary Lou had written and in the journal it said, “ I think Alex is pig-headed. His skin is always pink and his hair is always clean and shiny … but he is really a jerk” (Creech 190). Even though there teacher changed the name while reading it aloud Alex still knew it was him who she wrote about. The book didn’t say if they solved the conflict, but Mary Lou did try to explain to Alex that she wrote it before something but she never finished the sentence. While observing the conflict I didn’t learn many things about a character but I learned some characteristics like how his skin is pink, his hair is clean and shiny, and can be pig-headed. I would have taken Mary Lou’s side because she did try to talk to Alex and maybe if he stayed around to listen they could have worked things out could have been solved. I also agree with her because I do know what it's like to have a certain perspective of a person and then have it