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Analysis Of Kitchenette Building And Ruth Younger

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Kitchenette Building and Ruth Younger analysis

In Gwendolyn Brooks's poem, it symbolizes habit and routine along with dreams and aspirations. Brooks wrote “We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,/`
Grayed in, and gray.” (Brooks, Lines 1-2). Ruth’s thinking and actions resemble this line because over time she gained a routine about what she will do every morning. You can see a demonstration of this when Ruth says “What kind of eggs do you want?“, then Walter says “Not scrambled. (RUTH starts to scramble eggs)” (A Raisin in the Sun 26). Here, Walter is saying that he does not want scrambled eggs, this response is because he gets scrambled eggs every morning. Rather than making something other than scrambled eggs, Ruth begins …show more content…

Translating this into modern English, it says, could dreams and aspirations rise past the stench of reality? Her description is the same as Ruth's thoughts on Walter’s dream. In the book, Walter has a dream of having a liquor store. Everyone in Walter's family knows that his dream would not come true, yet Ruth still thinks about how it might get past everyone's expectations and the harsh reality of life. She even demonstrates this in the story when she speaks to Mama about using the life insurance money to help achieve Walter’s dream. “It’s just that he got his heart set on that store-” (41), it is clear that Ruth is still keeping in mind Walter’s dream even though it still might not get through the “stench of reality”.
In the poem, Brooks says, “Even if we were willing to let it in,/Had time to warm it, keep it very clean,/Anticipate a message, let it begin?” (Brooks, Stanza 3). When you translate this to modern English, it says, Even if you gave the dream time to grow, time to nurture it, would it even survive? This description is similar to the way she thinks of Walter’s dream. She thinks the same way Brooks’s poem describes a dream. They both think it just would not work out in the

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Mama’s plant in A Raison in the Sun, represents hope; hope for their future of having a house and a garden in the back. Mama is able to tend this dream plant and keep it alive even with the harsh atmosphere. When mama feels Walter and Beneatha are losing touch with her, she portrays her feelings through the dream plant, "Lord, if this little old plant don't get more sun than it's been getting, it ain't never going to see spring again" (40). This shows Mama truly believes that if Walter and Beneatha keep acting the way they do, they will not only ruin mama’s dream but also fail to initiate Big Walter’s legacy. Another piece of evidence that proves this, is when Ruth and Mama were talking about the now run-down house her and Big Walter used to

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She may see potential in Walter that he doesn't see in himself and wants to save the family from more hardship than they’ve already had to face. When Ruth asks, “Is there, a whole lot of sunlight?” Mama replies “Yes, child, a whole lot of sunlight.” Symbolically the sunlight represents the promising future they have in the new house and hopeful that they may overcome the racial barrier between whites and blacks within the

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