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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

A Raisin' In The Sun- Lorraine Hansberry

         In A Raisin' In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, she shows her readers what a few weeks is like in the lives of the Youngers family in South side Chicago in the 1950s.  When the play starts Mrs. Youngers is about to receive a $10,000  insurance check from her recently deceased husband Mr. Youngers. Everybody in the house has a different idea of what Mrs. Youngers should do with that money. Her son Walter Lee thinks that she should give it to him so that he can invest in opening a liquor store, and her daughter Beneatha thinks that she should keep it to herself or spend it on her going to medical school. Mrs. Youngers wants to spend it on her grandson Travis, because his family is going through a financial crisis and he has been wearing the same shoes since last semester.
         I think that some of the themes in this book so far are; The importance of family, and The value and purpose of dreams. I say the importance of family because they are all working together to help each other in some way but then there is always one person working against them. Walter Lee is working against Beneatha, Ruth is working against Mrs. Youngers etc. The value of purpose and dreams because Walter Lee and Beneatha both have dreams tat they value and want to accomplish and are willing to take their father's insurance policy money to get it but they know it's wrong and want to either keep it for Mama or the other, and that's where it goes back to the importance of family.
         I think that the protagonist- Walter Lee is going to do something reckless like try to steal Mama's money and end up getting caught.
       

3 comments:

  1. Nice Job on your post Ashley! I really like how you explained different theories and didn't just use one theory in your blogpost.

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  2. i agree you gave such great depth and detail explaining. BD

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  3. Thank you guys. I had to act in this play when I was younger at my afterschool so I figured why not read the book.

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