... to Africa, Mama- be a doctor in Africa"(150). Momma Younger has perhaps the largest and most un-selfish dream of all the family. In a way it was also the most simplistic of all of the dreams. All Momma wanted was a nice house, in a nice neighborhood, with a little garden in the backyard where her family could all live together happily. " Been thinking we could meet the notes on a little old two story, with ... love for her family her dream did come true. Soon after Walter had lost the money for the liquor store, Momma and the rest of the Youngers had put a down payment on a nice house. ...

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Dreams Deferred in Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, the author of A Raisin in the Sun, supports the theme of her play from a montage of, A Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes. Hughes asks, "What happens to a dream deferred?- He suggests many alternatives to answering the question. That it might "dry up like a raisin in the sun,"" or "fester like a sore."" Yet the play maybe more closely related to Hughes final question of the poem, "Or does it explode?- The play is ... 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...

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