Beneatha's Diary Essay

Beneatha’s Diary :Dear Diary, I have decided that my true calling is to be in my country.

Joseph Asagai has asked me to journey with him to Africa, back to his homeland. After much consideration, I have decided to go. I am so excited about going to Africa. I want to learn and see the customs of my people.

"Life is simply a long line that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd but those who see the changes are called "idealists" and those who cannot, or who refuse to think, they are the "realists.” Joseph Asagai was put in the play to be a contrast to George Murchison. Joseph is the idealist and George is the realist. Joseph Asagai is a Nigerian that came to America to

Knowing that Beneatha has a longing for identity and roots, he tells her all about Africa and gives her African records and a robe. If Asagai had his way, she'd be a straight-up African woman, instead of an African-American one. He even goes so far as to suggest her straightened hair is a sign that she is "assimilated" into white American culture. Eventually, Asagai proposes to Beneatha and asks her to come back to Nigeria with him. In the play's final scene, Beneatha is seriously considering his proposal. We never find out if these two lovebirds run off into the African sunset together, but we hope it works out for

In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed or spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of opportunity closed roughly in his