... hopes of a better life. She dreams for a new house with a garden and she is ecstatic when she can finally put a down payment on one: "MAMA: we maybe could meet the notes on a little old two-story somewhere, with a yard where Travis could play in the summertime (I.i pg. 44)."" However, Mama punishes Walter and Beneatha both verbally and physically when they threaten ... children builds and when Walter loses the money she bursts in despair. She beats Walter senselessly in the face and reminds him of his father's suffering: "MAMA: I seen him night after night come in and look at that rug a...

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... of Jimmie's brush with white mans main influence on aboriginality; alcohol. Jimmy joins Wongee Tom at Muswellbrook, at the Caledonian. As Wongee Tom states" come round to Caledonian Sat" Dee night. Is all a poor black bastard got left." Jimmie succumbs to the exploits of alcohol. Jimmie then wakes up in a prison. The audience then gets an idea of how white people ... hears the officer speaking to the Neville's, "They think it's their right to wander orf." This is just another example of the domineering power they whites possess. Jimmie arises and notes "No one on the floor moved. They l...

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• Grade Level: High School