A Raisin In The Sun Character Analysis

Damn these eggs damn the eggs there ever were!!! In the play The Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Walter one of the main characters is unbelievably rude, ignorant, disrespectful, selfish and everything in between, to his entire family To start off with he doesn't listen to his wife Ruth about how to parents their son Travis when Travis asks for money for school. Ruth doesn't want to give is to him because she insists that the family doesn't have it to spare. “What you tell the boy like that for?

A Raisin in the Sun Money is one of the things in the world that a person can become obsessed with. In the story “A Raisin in the sun” the author Lorraine Hansberry shows how a family is changed by the lust of money. A widow, Lena, her son Walter Younger, his wife Ruth and daughter Beneatha all lived under the same roof. Lena just lost her husband and is receiving a check for his death. With the money, Lena wants to buy a new house for the whole family to live in but everyone else in the family sees a different type of opportunity.

She says to Beneatha, “Now- you say after me, in my mother’s house there is still God. In my mother’s house there is still God.” This shows a strong side of Mama because she is strongly sticking to what she believes and is being true to herself. She decided to buy a house for her family because she believed it was in the family’s best interest; although she knew Walter would not be happy she had to think of what was overall the best. However she did feel bad and gave Walter $3,500 of the

He chose the right decision of covering up her accident, by acting out of pure love for her as a father to daughter. Throughout the whole story, Luke has had rituals in his house that he does to bring his spiritual relationship between him and God closer. At the end of the story, Luke also attempts to talk to God to justify his actions after the occurence. Luke tries to convince God and argue that he has never had a daughter of his own, so of course, he doesn’t know what it’s like. But, Luke is asked if he loves his daughter more than himself, because it would be a ‘love in weakness’, however God is reminded that it is similar to his love of humankind.

“No ma’am, but I can sew on the buttons in the evenings after supper, I won’t mind the extra time, please let me―(Bristow 3).” Celia is like this because of her religious beliefs for example in the bible it says “And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these (Mark 12:31 NIV). Love your neighbors as you love yourself, Celia is doing that, this is why her religious beliefs are really showing throughout the story. Towards the middle of the book she is still acting and proving her religious beliefs.

I think one of the most difficult decisions Franky had to make was leaving for America, Going to America where everything is perfect, free, and everyone has enough to eat has been his dream/his mother’s dream for him. After saving is money from his job, stealing food, and occasionally “stealing” money out of the purse of his boss for overtime, he finally had enough to get there. He leaves eager, but as soon as the boat leaves Ireland, Franky starts to miss is, getting overcome with memories of his home. He starts to rethink his saving strategy for America; that money could’ve gone into food, clothes, shoes, and coal for his family. He feels awful for hitting his mother after his first drink.

In the first part of this story we are given small information about the family. For example in the text it reads “On the morning of the 31st James Quinn had gone to the store early to supervise the moving of goods to higher levels. Before leaving home he had told everyone to stay inside. One of his children Marie, was already sick with the measles, and did not want the others out in the rain catching a cold”(Page 102). Already as we get into

His father basically tells him that he can stay and completely forget about Keiko, or he can leave and never again be known as a part of his family. Henry leaves telling his father that he is an American. Jumping back to earlier in the novel, Ford makes the process of Henry opening himself up to Keiko a slow one, as if Henry finds it hard to make friends or trust other people. Henry and Keiko do not become friends right away because Ford wants the relationship to be believable. Both children are going to a school that is full of children, who are mostly white Americans, and they both work at the kitchen within the school.

Many people strive to accomplish their American dream. Certain character traits can affect your ability to accomplish it. Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin In The Sun,” shows how different character traits affect the character 's ability to reach their dream. In the play, a man named Walter tries to reach his dream of opening a liquor store and becoming wealthy. Throughout the book, some of his personality traits make it harder for him to obtain his goal, while his other traits help him.

Walter a character mainly focusing on changing his daily cycle and bringing a better future for his family. Watching younger has experienced lot of changes in his family wanted to provide his family more and looking for way to escape his daily routine. A Raisin in the Sun Walter discusses “do you know what this money could do to me, do you know what this money can do for us” page 522 act scene 2. Walter warriors about his daily routine, his mindset is using the money and using familiar capital. Walter can give more to his family and earning the respect proving them they were wrong.

“Mother, Father, what is going on?” he asked. “Oh Thomas, I did not know you were home, did you get the eggs I sent you for? I am going to make a pie for Mr. Henry for all of his kind deeds he has done for the colonists.” said his mother.

In the Rights to the Streets of Memphis there is a boy named Richard Wright who lives with his mom and brother. Richard 's dad also lived with him but he left which caused Richard 's mom to have fiancial issue. For having finanial issue Richard 's mom got a job in addition Richard got responsibilities to the store and get food. When Richard finishes shopping for food, he gets surrouned by bullies and gets beat up and everything gets taken. He arrives to his apartment and tells his mom what happened to him, Richard was surprised to the responce his mom gave him.

Getting through about half way in the book, the Watsons decide to take a trip to visit grandma and she lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Byron is so excited for this trip, he wants to drive part of the way to scare dad. The night before they leave Byron sleeps in Willona 's room so he can 't run for it in the morning. Before they leave, the plan is to make it to CIncinnati Ohio and stay in a hotel for a night to take a break so Dad isnt too tired of driving. The next day they still don 't plan on going to Birmingham, they will stay at a rest stop in Knoxville, and then they will drive to Birmingham the following day.

The McCourt face many economic problems throughout the story. One of them is when Angela presents the butcher a ticket that gave her a free meal for Christmas and instead of having steak or duck like other families, they get a pig 's head. The kid 's then had to go pick the streets for Coal, because they did not have any at home to cook the head. Even though the family had so many economic problems Frank 's mother always told Frank to make something of himself, that he could do it. Frank wanted to move back to the United States, so he started working as a paper boy.

In this novel Chris is the soldier returning from war. Chris is from a higher class in society where there is an emphasis on how people dress themselves and where protocol is everything. Kitty, Chris’ wife, renovates the whole home while Chris is away in order to upkeep their image and to impress her husband upon his homecoming she also does this in an effort to hold onto prior social structure. Chris comes back to Baldry Court earlier than expected because of the shell shock that he has experienced, he is incapacitated in some way but nothing was amputated. Shell