... (A Raisin in the Sun para. 1). She dreams of becoming a doctor someday and wants to use the money to pay for the rest of her schooling. Mama, who realizes that her family is falling apart, much like her withered plant, only wants to buy a new home so that her family can once again live ... together peacefully. After the family has relentlessly tried to persuade her with what to do with the money, Mama finally comes to her senses and puts a down payment on a new house in a predominantly white neighborhood named Clybourne Park. She then gives Walter the remaining ... him to put half of it ...

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... then to tell him he needs to sit down and talk to his wife, which is more important, because she's family (A Raisin in the Sun, 869). Mama notices also how Walter and Ruth's relationship is uncertain (A Raisin in the Sun, 855) which is why she wants him to talk to Ruth about her pregnancy ... the family's values by deceiving them into thinking that he did the responsible thing with the money, what the family wanted done with money. He fooled Mama into believing he was grown up and could become the head of the family. When the family learned of his mistake, the family became away of wha...

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... lucrative albeit shady business deals concerning liquor store with his friends Bobo and Willy Harris. Beneatha wants to use it to become a doctor. Neither Ruth nor Mama has any real wish for the money other then groceries and the welfare of the others. Both Beneatha and Walter hotly contest who has more right to ... does not think that he should get the money. This is a constant struggle and it takes their focus away from other important maters such as Ruth's pregnancy. Mama puts a stop to this by doing something sensible. She buys a house in Cleburne Park, an all white neighborhood! Th...

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... which could possibly fulfil each one of their dreams. Hansberry demonstrates how the Younger family endures their deferred dreams mainly through the characters of Walter, Mama (Lena), and Beneatha. When a family faces deferred dreams, it can cause rising tempers amongst the family, defiant attitudes, and great sadness. Early ... because she doesn't necessarily support his dream of investing the ten thousand dollars in the liquor business. Ruth refuses to help Walter coerce Mama into giving him the insurance money for the investment. Walter seemingly a good man confesses to his wife Ruth ...

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... selfish man to a selfless one is his mother. Walter, through the guilt he felt after hurting his mother, grew up and took responsibility for his family. Mama is a very strong character in this play. She is the keystone to the Younger family's metaphorical bridge. Being Walter's mother, she has authority over him ... of her family and buys them a house. Walter, who believed that the money would go towards his dream to buy the liquor store, is crushed. Mama, seeing that Walter is depressed, tells him, "I'm telling you to be the head of this family from now on like you supposed to be" ....

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... has not gone to work in three days. This is news to Ruth who gets very mad. Walter tells her where he's been going. After listening to him Mama decides to give Walter some of the money. She paid 35 hundred on the house so there was only 65 hundred left. She handed Walter all of it and ... told him to put 3 thousand in savings for Berneathas schooling and the rest was his. Scene three: It is moving day at the Youngers small apartment and everyone is in a good mood. Ruth is telling Berneatha about how different Walter has been acting. They have been going out and ... can only imagine how...

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... the money in a liquor store. His sister, Beneatha, wants to use the money to finish school, so she can pursue her life as a doctor. Mama would rather use the money to buy a home and leave their run down house in the ghetto. Their frustration is obtained from their dreams being deferred ... store: WALTER: You wouldn't understand yet, son, but your daddy's gonna make a transaction a business transaction that's going to change our lives That's how come one day when you 'bout seventeen years old I'll come home I'll pull the car up on the driveway just a plain black Chrysler, I think, with wh...

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... everything that he got. Well in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Langston Hughes, several of then characters has dreams that they are aspiring to one day achieve. Everyone needs to have something like a dream or a goal to keep themselves pursuing something in their life. We all strive for something to keep our ... about or do they shrivel up "like a raisin in the sun?" Beneatha is one of the man character's in this play. She is the daughter of MaMa and the sister to Walter. She is also a very attractive college student who is dating two guys at the moment. These two men who she seeing ar...

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... model to his son and not the strong black man of the family. "I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy Mama," (Hansberry 254). He tells his mama as what would make him happy. Walter as the only man of the family does not even think he has a real job as he complains ... to his mama that "I open and close car doors all day long. I drive a man around in his limousine and I say, "Yes, sir; no, sir, very good, sir" (Hansberry 254). Walter's devotion to ... had no clue that his wife was carrying a baby, and once he found out, he simply walked out of the house without sayi...

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... than one person come true, while dreams that are only for personal reasons, don't. In the story a lower class African American family tries to get by through everyday life. One day Momma gets a ten thousand-dollar check from her insurance company. Each member of the family has his or her own idea of what will be done with the money. Walter ... dreams though, and no matter what some of her family members say she will become a doctor, and she will push herself until her dream is fulfilled." To go to Africa, Mama- be a doctor in Africa"(150). Momma Younger has perhaps the largest and most ...

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... her word in but is often ignored. Lena is Walter's mother and is very concerned about her family. She tries to keep things held together despite all of the happenings. Mama's husband had just recently died so times seemed to be even harder. They all live in a small apartment when living space is very confined. They all have dreams in which ... seem to hold back each other from obtaining them. Walter Lee Younger is an intense man in his middle thirties who works as a chauffeur, but his dream is to one day open up a liquor store. Walter has a very bad temper and tends to say things he doe...

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