In the book, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the Youngers, a working-class black family struggle against economic hardship and racial prejudice. As the book advances, the Youngers clash over their competing hopes for the family. Payments become taken advantage of, and people begin to give up on eachother, but not Mama, when she counts on hope to help. Hope is almost like a feeling of trust, and the Younger Family tries to sustain a strong family by looking for hope and fulfill their separate dreams. Hope is the last thing the Youngers have left to get to where they want to be, and hope gives them a reason to believe their dreams are able to be attained.
Some readers feel that money is more significant because it determines motivation
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Money is being used within a small quantity, and there are no current problems revolving around it, currently. Carfare is something they are both very used to hearing. They tease about it, but they also both assume there would be no problems connecting with their transportation. Money is a motivator to cut the conversation when it’s about to get bad, as Walter had an excuse to leave the room to catch a taxi. As Mama and her son, Walter ‘debate’ about what’s really most important in life, Mama quietly says to Walter, “So now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life- now it’s money. I guess the world really do change…”(Hansberry 74). Walter is arguing that his point of view about things haven’t changed, and Mama tells him about what was important back when she was young. Money is represented as a symbol of happiness for everyone who has not seen what money can buy, and how it can ‘make or break’ someone’s life. It shows success because of the income Walter has provided for the family, and he has been working hard to get them to where they need to be. However, Walter loses the thousands of dollars that he had earned for the family, and money does not
“‘You know, Miss Moore, I don’t think all of us here put together eat in a year what that sailboat costs’”. Even the children understand the hardships that a lack of money can cause. These people value money because they
The world stereotypes rich people as rude, stuck up and selfish. Ever wonder why? Studies from Yale, The New York Times, TED and more have concluded, money changes everything. Whether it’s attitude, morals or values, money can affect and change all aspects of someone’s life. The play, A Raisin in the Sun, has a theme showing this claim clearly.
These are all traits that would describe Walter Lee and his actions. Walter Lee is a character from the play A Raisin in the Sun in which a black family tries to get out of poverty and go against stereotypes by trying to start over with their Grandpa’s life insurance money. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry explores the concept that greed leads to being blinded by money and forgetting about one’s loved ones as shown by the climax of the play, the character of Walter Lee, and the effect that his actions have on the rest of his family. The Character of Walter Lee shows that greed blinding a person can cause him to forget about the ones he loves.
The house Mama bought was $3,500 leaving $6,500. Mama asks Walter to take the money to the bank and put $3,000 away in a savings account for Benetha's medical school. Mama made a smaller decision to give Walter $500 more than Benetha. She felt as though, with the new baby coming, Walter and Ruth may need the money more than Benetha. The remaining $3,500 was for Walter and his family.
In A Raisin in the Sun, a play written by Lorraine Hansberry, the audience was able to obtain a sense of the struggle for the American dream. We are introduced to the Youngerś a black family living in the Southside of Chicago around the 1950’s. Each member of this family has their own meaning to what is the American dream. A Raisin in the Sun teaches us that even though life might be full of conflicts, it is important to not give up on our dreams.
By comparison, they will do anything to be able to fulfill their American Dream. Without a doubt, Walter would give up anything for wealth, since money runs the world. While Walter was having a conversation with his mother she says, “So now its life. Money. Money is life.
He ends the passage with the remark “THAT MONEY IS MADE OUT OF MY FATHER’S FLESH!” (128). This reveals to the readers why this money meant so much to him, why it was his motivation. For Walter, his father had to die for him to get the insurance money, so he views this has his father's flesh. As a result, Walter wanted to make good use of that money to not ruin his father’s legacy.
To be prideful is human nature, even when it hasn 't been earned. Being proud of who you are and what you have accomplished is an important part of everyone 's life, but sometimes we are prideful without something to be proud of. This kind of pride is shown in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry through the character Walter Younger. He enters the play with a false sense of pride in being a man, despite the fact that he is a chauffeur who is struggling to support his family. Throughout the plot, he struggles with acceptance of his social status and economical situations, but ends up achieving true fulfillment in simply being proud of who he and his family are as people with aspirations.
A conflict between Mama and Walter occurred in the middle of the play, after Mama showed what she had done with the money. " So, you butchered up a dream of mine you always talking ‘bout your children’s dreams." (Hansberry, 563). At this point in the play, Hansberry demonstrates how the family's financial situation impacts the connections among the different members of the family. She demonstrates to the reader how difficult it can be to provide for your family if you are a black man and society does not give you the same opportunities because of the color of your skin.
A final way Hansberry the audience recognizes the terrible impact of greed on people is through Lena’s response to Walter’s constant begging for money. Lena, a sapient woman, says to Walter, “... so now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life -- now it’s money”
Walter dreams of gaining money through the liquor store, a highly improbable goal. As the play continues, Walter realizes how absurd this goal is and decides to abandon his American Dream. As a result, he takes it on himself to ensure that his mother’s American Dream gets fulfilled when he mentions “we don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight causes, and we will try to be good neighbors … we don’t want your money” (Hansberry 148) to Lindner. By doing so, Walter makes it evident that he lost all interest in money and only wants to move into the house to aid in uniting his family, proving Walter’s shift in his American Dream. Clearly, using evidence from the Malcolm X’s legacy and Hansberry’s emphasis on Walter’s failure of his unique American Dream due to an improbable goal, the importance of every individual person having probable goals is vital to
The way that Walter thinks is that if he had lots of money he would be better and act different, but sometimes people with too much don’t really act like they enjoy and also money never solves big problems but walter thinks it will. I believe that if you have too much money you think that everything is going so well at the moment and you don't care about spending money, but one day something could occur and you will lose all of so this just shows that no one should rely on money. In life you need to make sacrifices that could be should i spend money on an investment that could be helpful and help out my family in the future or if that I should buy something so I could help out my family instead of later. I believe that you should always help out the family when they are in need because something could happen and it could all go away. Having money should never define the person you are because you could be rich you could just be rude and not help anyone and be selfish and if you are wealthy you could have the nicest heart and be very helpful to people that are in need.
Family is important to everyone in some way because family sticks together no matter what. The play A Raisin in the Sun is about a black family named the Youngers and the hardships they face together as a family. In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Ruth Younger is motivated by her family. This is shown by Ruth wanting to make her family happy, her working even though she is tired, and later when Ruth finds out there is going to be another mouth to feed. Ruth Younger is constantly worrying about her family’s well being and happiness for them.
Hardships of the Youngers In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, the characters of Mama, Walter ,and Beneatha are faced with hardships associated with their dreams being destroyed by discriminatory housing,racial inequality and lack of support from her family towards her education. In the play all the characters have some kind of dream. Mama wants to get a house for the family, Walter wants to have money to provide for his family and plans to do that with a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to become a doctor. Beneatha is going to school and at the same time she’s trying to discover herself,but her family is not supportive of this.
The novel begins with a portrait of comfort yet financial insecurity: the Younger household’s apartment. They are living in a cramped apartment in the slums of Chicago’s South Side, accommodating the “living of too many people for too many years” (Hansberry 3), desperately awaiting the arrival of the insurance check to fulfill the long awaited dreams of many of the characters. Almost instantaneously, as audience members are quickly processing the disorganization and volatility of the Younger’s apartment, Ruth, Walter’s wife, and Mama, enter the apartment conversing casually. Conversations in the play mainly center around finances, and this one is no different.