All their dreams are differ rent and these dreams also have divided the family creating conflicts among them. Being the head of the should, Lena dreamed to live on a place where her family could raise the next generations with dignity. She would do whatever it took to make those dreams come true. Walter, Lens’s oldest son, set his dream on the liquor store that he planned to invest with the e money of his mother. He really does not have any organized plan for that investment and t his could result in a catastrophe.
Beneath, in the other hand, wants to become a doctor when SSH e got out of college she struggles to determine her identity as a wildcatted black woman. Been that is clearly the best educated member of the Younger family. Ruth, Walter’s wife, wanted to Ii eve a better life. “A Raisin in the Sun” is a book of “dreams deferred”, and in this book that Lorraine nee Handlebars had fluently defined the dreams of the Younger family and how those dreams beck name deferred.
Lena Younger, Walter and Beneath mother, was a widow in her early is sixties who dedicated her life to her children after her husband’s death. Retired from word king for the Holiday’s family, she was waiting for her husband’s insurance money to arrive . With the ten thousand dollars check in her hand, Lena decided to buy a house in Colloquy e Park and she was also going to put some of the money in the bank for Beneath medical SOHO 01. Those were her dreams; they were so simple but also were beautiful.
She expected everybody to be pleased at the things she had done with the check and indeed, they did, except for Walter: “Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his he d back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile (Handlebars,29). ” Lena clearly describe that her dreams are not for herself but for her family’s f true generations. Big Walters mention in the play serves as a reminder of the sacrifices parents make for their children.
Her dream is truly a common dream among African Americans and r minded me one of the most popular political activists of the African American history, Martin Luther King, Jar “l have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Have a dream today. (Luther King, 1963). ” Walter who was working as a chauffeur wanted to be the head of the fame lay he believed that y starting a business he would be TABLE to advance and make more money to support the family.
Everyone in the family was concerned about the insurance check; However W alter was more than everybody else. The day the check arrived to the small house, he came b jack from work early asking if the check has arrived. He was so excited about the money. Thin king that finally he would be TABLE of build his dream. Walter was frustrated when he knew his mother had spent part of the insurance money buying a house and thought it wasn’t fair that Be neaten his own sister got some of the money for her medical school while he got nothing for is dream a liquor store business.
He stopped going to work and instead was digging himself nit o the alcohol on the “Kitty Cat” the same bar he always went to talk about business with his friend s. Lena, who always wanted her son to be happy, gave the rest of the insurance money to Walter not without telling him that first make a deposit to his sisters account. She also told him t hat it was time for him to take the reins of the family and guide them as he was taught by his par nets. Holding the money in his hands, he thanked his mother and appreciated the trust she had in him.
He could not find what to say to his mother Other than the following: “You trust me like that, Mama? ……. Mama says she has never stopped trusting him (Handlebars, 106). ” After Walter received the money the next we notice is that he seems to be a d efferent man. He is singing, dancing and more over having a close relationship with his son. As Ca roll P. Has also written: “As the gift of money inaugurates his rejuvenation; in the next moment, he enthusiastically seeks a relationship with his son, whom he had therefore sign ordered. Apparently money mediates and inspires black male community (Carol P. 93) Walter then gave the money to his partners in order to get the liquor license without realizing that they were going to betray him. When the family discovered that he was f lolled they felt the all their dreams were escaping from their hands. First mama, she reminded hi m how his father had worked trying to build a better future for his family: ” seen… Him… Night after night… Come in … And look at that rug… And then look at me… The red showing in his eyes… The veins moving in his head… L seen him grow thin and old before he was forty.. Irking and working and working like somebody old horse… Killing himself… ND you?you give it all away in a As his dream vanished, Walter was regret that he didn’t listen to his mother, wife and sister. At this point he started to realize the importance of family and his character star Ted to struggle on how to get the money back. He almost sells the house his mother bought. Ho waver at the end he exposed his inner self and found out the true value of family and money and core values her family inculcated in him. Beneath dream, in the other hand, is to become a doctor.
Sagas calls Been that (Bennie) “Alai,(Handlebars, 52)” which means something like “One for Whom Bread – Food is not enough. Handlebars, 52)”. Beneath symbolizes the young, liberal, free, and feminist voice in the play; she is the only member of her family who always looks beyond he r living circumstances. When she discovered that her brother didn’t put anything in t he bank for her medical school. With her dream of became doctor is economical frustrated. S he was more than upset, she was depressed. At this point as a reader you realize that her strength the has gone. Now she seems to be weak and fragile.
Fortunately, her friend Sagas came over a ND talked to her; he convinced her that there was still hope and dream in this world and that Been that should forget about the money because there wouldn’t have been ten thousand dollars chew KC if her father had not died. “Beneath: Assai, while I was sleeping in that bed in there, people went out and took the future right out of my hands! And nobody asked me, nobody con salted methyl just went out and changed my life! Assai: … Was your money they gave away? (Handlebars, 134)” As Beneath found hope again, her dream returned.
She also realized that SSH e would want to marry Sagas someday and practice her medical career in Nigeria, Aegis’s birr outplace. Ruth, Walter’s wife, dream was a common dream even these days. Stop living in poverty, accumulate wealth. She was pregnant and did not want to tell her husband the e situation. The family was in a great misery. They had only eggs for breakfast and did not have e fifty cents to give her son to go to school. When Walter lost the money and therefore their dreams, Ruth forgave him and gave the support as a wife to start everything over.
Ruth cal ml accepted the fact that her dream was only a dream. To her, it was a relief that her husband had come back to reality after his failed dream. There is no doubt that segregation and racism was still marked in the 1 ass’s s society. Example of that is the way the white people of the neighborhood is trying to p revert them to move into ‘their place” But this was written in a book let’s see a few examples of what was happening in the society those days: “On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks, a 43 year old black seamstress, was arrest deed in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.
Civil Rights leaders, Dry. Martin Luther King, organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott t. (Black Peoples of America Civil Rights)” 1954 “Oliver Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas In the sass, school segregation was widely accepted throughout the United States and was a requirement of law in most southern states. In 1 952, the Supreme Court heard a number of agglomerations cases, including Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. In 1954 the court d creed that segregation was unconstitutional. Black Peoples of America Civil Rights)” 1957 Desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas “Little Rock Central High School was to begin the 1 957 school year desegregated. On September 3 when nine black students tried to enter the SC wool, they were prevented from doing so by National Guardsmen acting on the orders o f the Arkansas state governor. On September 20, Judge Davies granted an injunction against Governor Buff and three days later the group of nine students returned to Central High SOHO 01 but were prevented from attending school by a mob of 1 ,OHO townspeople.
Finally, President Eisenhower ordered 1,000 paratroopers and 1 0,000 Nation Guardsmen to Little Rock, and on September 25, Central High School was des segregated. (Black Peoples of America Civil Rights}’ Clearly in the fifties many events took place, thus helping to put a start to end the wave of racism and racial separation. Finally, with Walter transformed into a new man they forgot their problem s and moved to the new house for start a new life. Although they knew it was going to be hard to start everything over, for them it was as if their lives had just begun.
They were happy and cell berating while the moving was about to start. At the end the mom took a last look to the place a ND this clearly symbolizes how much she is thankful for all she got in the past. Also appreciate ins big Walter’s for all the sacrifice he made to concrete their dreams. Lorraine Handlebars in t his play had successfully characterized the four main characters in the play as human been gas with desires, reams, aspirations, conflict, weaknesses, and strength.
