A Raisin In The Sun Short Summary

Travis wins some cash via conveying staple packs and likes to play outside with other neighborhood kids, however he has no room and considers the lounge couch. Joseph Asagai - A Nigerian understudy in adoration with Beneatha. Asagai, as he is regularly called, is extremely glad for his African legacy, and Beneatha would like to find out about her African legacy from him. He in the long run proposes marriage to Beneatha and trusts she will come back to Nigeria with him.

He lost his home, forcing him to downgrade, his wife, Gaynella, died in 1976, and he was living unhealthy. Shortly after Gaynella passed he met Donna Mussenden. She committed herself to cleaning and organizing for James, finding it obvious how poorly his living conditions were. In 1978 she resigned from her job as director of the National Urban League’s Art Gallery and decided to marry James.  Now that he had his young 34-year-old wife organizing his appearances and calendar schedules, James could reopen his studio in her old apartment in the early 1980’s.

Reader Response: 3 “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, is a play about a black families experience in 1950s South Side Chicago. The story revolves around what happens to the family when Lena Younger, the matriarch of the family, receives a ten thousand dollar life insurance check upon the death of her husband. Everyone from the family has different plans for what they want to do with the money. Lena Younger serves as the head of the family. She is Walter and Beneatha’s caring mother so they and Ruth call her Mama.

Meanwhile she forgets to teach a class, being introduced to people, and forgets if she has already repeated something. Again going to her neurologist, Alice decides to participate in the Amylix drug trial. While at their summer home, Alice gets lost, can 't identify certain objects, and has to be watched by her daughter. When they get back to Cambridge, Alice talks to one of her colleagues about how her students rated her. When Alice tells him that she was diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease, she notices that he doesn 't want her working anymore, and decides to give up her career at Harvard.

Though his wish has the family in mind, it nearly tears the family apart when it backfires. Ruth, Walter’s wife, dreams with Mama and hopes to one day live in a house. Beneatha, Mama’s daughter and Walter’s sister, aspires to further her education while chasing her hope to discover herself. Little does Beneatha know, everyone else

The Lacks ' Family Acknowledged But Not Compensated Henrietta Lacks was a black woman wronged of her rights and patient confidentiality in Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. She was a poor tobacco farmer, who after delivering her last child, Joseph, felt an unusual knot in her womb. When she thought the condition of her lump was more serious than she thought, she got it checked by Doctor Howard W. Jones at Johns Hopkins Hospital, "Jones found a lump exactly where she 'd said he would. He described it as an eroded, hard mass about the size of a nickel. If her cervix was a clock 's face, the lump was at four o 'clock," (Skloot 17).

Some of the other cultural differences but similarities in the movie is that the families both have some type of power and wealth within their subcultures. The power and wealth in the African culture are that when the African family is having breakfast and the Prince is talking with his parents and talks about him turning

Obviously, her worst decision was to marry the controlling missionary, Nathan Price. After going through the years with her mentally abusing husband, her family moving to the Congo, and her daughter Ruth May dying from her husband 's decisions to stay in the Congo, she finally understands how Nathan is treating her and the injustice he is causing his family. Orleanna Price finally becomes successful on her own after packing up her kids that were still alive and moving back to America for freedom from her husband and for her kids to be safe. It 's just sad that she had to witness her daughter dying before she finally realized she didn 't need Nathan in her life which would make her life better for not only herself but her kids as well. From all the events that happened in Orleanna life, she finally understands the meaning of justice and making her search for justice successful.

Being the man of the household, Walter dreams of owning a liquor store and plans on using Lena’s money to do so. Walter is always after money and believes that the only way to succeed in life is with money. For example, when Walter is talking about the check, he says, “Mama, sometimes when I’m downtown and I pass them cool, quiet-looking restaurants where them white boys are sitting back and talking about things, turning deals worth millions of dollars, sometimes I see guys don’t look much older than me” (992).This shows how Walter wanted something more out of life and not just be a poor black man. Everyone in this family had dreams but no one supported each other dreams.

The movie Visions is a Horror film that tells of a couple, newly pregnant Eve and her husband Daniel, that just moved into a new house in wine country. The move was stimulated by a recent car crash Eve was involved in, which unfortunately resulted in the death a newborn baby in the other car. Eve feels terrible about the crash takes it upon herself to bear the blame, even though it was proved the crash wasn 't her fault. All of this leads to Eve falling into a deep depression which then results in her being put on heavy anti depressants. Eve However, fights out of this bitter state by deciding to get pregnant, get off her medication and move to a new place.

Mary explained to her son she could not walk and he called an ambulance. Mary stated she does not like to bother her children with her problems because they are all very busy people. Mary was wearing the same night gown and bathrobe she was transported to the hospital in. The bathrobe was dirty

In the beginning of the book Mary was stuck in a room with no windows and never got outside, but in the movie she was allowed out of her room and did go outside to play. I thought that the movie did a better job with this then the book did. The book just kind of said this and then moved on with the story. The movie gave a little bit more detail on the subject. Her parents died by a large earthquake in the movie, but in the book they both died along with other people in their kingdom from cholera, and that is why Mary had to go stay with her uncle Mr. Craven.

He had to meet in the same spot and pay the same amount the next week or once again he would assassinate his father. 1 year later he went out and bought some flowers for his love and she loved them. A few days later to surprise her, he bought her a diamond ring to engage to her. He gave her fifty thousand dollars to pay for the couple 's wedding. At the same time his father 's business was failing and was soon going bankrupt, so he payed for his father 's attorney for his company.

Callie stated after (18). Throughout the story this didn’t affect her anymore, until one night, Callie was about to go to sleep when she got notified that she got a call, she walked to the phone booths and answered it. On the other line was her mother. She tells Callie, “They [Sea Pines] say they might send you home... They won’t let you back in school either, not until you’ve had your treatment.”

The Youngers are a poor African-American family living in Chicago. An opportunity to escape poverty comes in the form of a $10,000 life insurance check that the matriarch of the family ( Mama) receives upon her husband 's death. In the beginning of the play Walter was selfish and wanted nothing but the ten thousand dollar insurance check from his dad 's death to invest in a liquor store to get rich quickly. Throughout the story Walter learns that his family being happy and moving into a new house was more important than his own selfish wants.