“America has given the Negro people a bad check”¹‚ this is thoroughly shown‚ along with other themes‚ throughout both A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Before the civil rights movement‚ and for some time after‚ blacks were given the short end of the stick‚ they had to fight for their dreams and they had to fight against racism. They were given next to nothing but they were still expected to ask the whites to “forgive [them] for ever
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The most important character is mama. i believe this because in anyone’s life their mother would and should be the most important. She runs the family‚ what she says goes. whenever her kids seem stressed she can tell like when ever walter was trying to leave and got into a argument with his wife. Mama jumped in and talked to walter because she could tell he was not the same. Shes there to help guide her family now more then to help with anything. She gives advice and a hand when needed. The play
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The Character of Walter Lee Younger Walter Lee wanted to give his family the world. He believed that he and his family deserved more than what they had. As the man of the house‚ Walter fights against the demons of poverty and racial/social injustice that plagued his father and now seem to have a tight grip upon him. His attitude is negative and deceptive through most of the play‚ due to discontentment within. Walter hated being a poor black man‚ from a little apartment in the ghetto
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Glass Ceiling In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the Junior family is burdened with a glass ceiling that is not just restraining the female gender‚ but the African American Race as well. Throughout the book‚ a laboring family is not earning what they deserve‚ their dreams a reality. They struggle through living in a run down and cramped house‚ they way are fated to live by their race. The only income they receive comes from Walters pay check and as compensation for Walter Sr.’s death
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The generation gap is one which cannot be bridged The so-called “generation gap” always exists as an inevitable social phenomenon of all time. The nature of this is differences and misunderstandings between the young and their elders causing a big gap that cannot be bridged as many considered. However‚ there are still multiple people believing in the “possibility” and attempting to bridge generations by narrowing the gap gradually. To start with‚ we all cannot deny the truism that
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Cited: Hansberry‚ Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. 1958. New York: Vintage Books.
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understands? If you do‚ then you would get along with Walter Lee Younger wonderfully. Set entirely in the Younger living room‚ this play takes place in a run-down apartment in the South side of Chicago during the middle of the twentieth century. Three generations of the family live in this crowded space. Walter Lee Younger is a chauffeur and Lena’s son. He is a slim‚ intense‚ thirty-five year-old black man. Walter believes the answer to his feelings of desperation and hopelessness as a slum resident
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Kimberley Hurter Dr. Jones English 200 10/05/12 The Generation Gap All in the Family aired in January of 1971 and centered around the Bunker family who lived in a home located at 704 Houser Street in Queens‚ New York. Archie Bunker‚ a dock foreman for the Prendergast Tool and Dye Company was the main character and was televisions most famous bigot‚ loud-mouth and downright rude. Edith Bunker ("Dingbat") was his somewhat dizzy wife who put up with Archie. Also living in the Bunker household were
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The generation gap between older and younger people in most countries in the world is simply too wide to be bridged. To what extent‚ do you agree or disagree? When the cultural and economic integrations spread in over the world‚ one of the problems are the distance between two generations (older and younger) is more and more increased so that some people think it seem to be too difficult to heal. The generational differences have existed throughout history. The root of these differences comes
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Global Trends in Management: Combating the Generation Gap In times of economic crisis‚ managers are always looking at ways to improve their productivity and organizational environment in order to sustain the company. Retention‚ however‚ has become a major obstacle facing the emerging leader. What exactly is causing this sudden job sprawl? A number of issues have contributed to this movement‚ namely the generation gap. The existence of four generations in the workforce has caused a critical disparity
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