A Raisin In The Sun Rhetorical Analysis

The American Disease

In A Raisin in The Sun, American Denial, and To Kill A Mockingbird, treatment of races can be synthesized to reveal the power of society’s public opinion, otherwise known as the American Creed. It has always been society’s way to go with the public opinion whether it be factually correct or not. Public opinion is the collection of views prevalent among the general public. This trend can be seen everywhere, and has been around for a long time. One example this trend has shown in history was in 1933 when the Holocaust started due to the public opinion that Jews should were lesser than Germans. In this essay, the question “Why does the public opinion influence us today?”, will be answered, or give you more questions.

In America

In the documentary, Gunnar Myrdal, who wrote the substantial study, An American Dilemma, believed that people are confused in their minds. I believe this to be attributed to the influence public opinion has in today’s society. Society has gotten to the point where superficial characteristics and money determine one’s social standing. The people with high social standings will say anything to stay with the public opinion. Furthermore, regular people agree with the public opinion because the people with power agree. With this unending cycle, Americans who have opinions that differ from the majority are stuck in rut with no progress because the powerful are impressionable by public opinion . One’s internal voice may have different beliefs than what a majority of society thinks which sometimes causes a conflict to arise. Usually having a different opinion won’t cause any harm, but when it’s under a spotlight it attracts a lot of attention. “What if our faith in the American creed depends on the habit of denial?” (2:33–2:39). This quote is basically saying that the faith the unfeasible American Creed carries is due to the denial of the obvious problems in the structure of America, or America as whole. Denial is a habit. Denial is a disease. Denial is one of the factors that fuel the inequality and confusion in America. Moreover, denial of one’s true opinions leads

When the people of Clybourne park learn that blacks are going to move into their neighborhood they take action by sending Karl Lindner, one of the residents of Clybourne Park, to bribe the Youngers and explain why they shouldn’t move. “I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply doesn’t enter into it. It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities. (Hansberry, 118). The race of the Youngers is seen as the most detrimental part about them which is due to the public opinion that blacks are seemingly lower than whites which started with slavery. Racial prejudice, as well as the fear of property values going down enter into the fact that the residents of Clybourne Park don’t want the Youngers to move in. The Youngers are civilized, healthy people, so there’s no reason but racial prejudice for why they can’t move into the all white neighborhood. “I’m thirty-five years old; I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room – (very quietly) – and all I got to give him are stories about how rich white people live…” (Hansberry, 34) In this quote we really the depth of how his race has affected him is really shown. His low social standing given to him at birth has