ipl-logo

Character Analysis: A Raisin In The Sun By Lorraine Hansberry

947 Words4 Pages

“Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It 's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others ' success, and then standing back and letting them shine”, said Chris Hadfield. The matriarch of the family encourages everyone in the household to be happy and leads them into the right direction for success. To do this she puts everyone’s needs before her own and keeps them motivated to do what they have to do to reach their goals in life no matter what. In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry introduces a very strong and kind hearted mother to two children. Lena …show more content…

Along with being very helpful when it comes to her family Lena is also considerate in certain ways. Which include putting her children 's needs before her own. The Younger family have always been scarce on resources, especially money. While Mama is waiting for that big check that the whole family is waiting on she knows already that she is going to buy a house for them to live in. Once Mama buys the house she has always wanted she then realizes that her children could make use of this money. So, instead of keeping the rest of her money that she received she gave it away to her children so they could do what they wanted to do in life. Lena Younger represents a very strong and helpful matriarch in the family throughout the play, A Raisin in the Sun. While everyone in the household seem to be falling apart in different ways Mama always seems to come to the rescue. She stays strong no matter what obstacle comes in her way and always seems to make everything in life for the Youngers is ok. Mama possesses the traits of a very good leader and does it without performing “crowning acts”. She does them to keep her family focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, and to make sure they stay together, stronger than

Show More
Related
589 Words | 3 Pages

Considering this, she doesn't have a strong foundation based on her future and dreams she would like to achieve. While in the other hand, for Victor and his family their migration journeys being in Quincy, Florida there where they are picking tomatoes. For Victor his family is the inspiration and they will always be his inspiration because he does not want to see them suffer. He knows what they have been through and is ready to change not just his life, but theirs as well. Victor is his little sisters’ role model and the one held responsible since his other sisters are still back in Mexico.

Read More
482 Words | 2 Pages

“Mama seeing the make-down bed as Travid has left it: Lord have mercy, look at that poor bed. Bless his heart-he tries, don’t he? She moves to the bed Travis has sloppily made up.” (148) In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, a family struggles to achieve the American Dream.

Read More
665 Words | 3 Pages

Lena is a very old lady, but she kept on working and making good decisions for the family. When Walter asked Lena for money, she said no to Walter because she knows that it is the wrong thing to execute. Yet, when she finally let Walter have the money because Walter is tearing the family. Walter lost the money to his malevolent friend. Lena regretted her decision for letting Walter have the money.

Read More
401 Words | 2 Pages

Alternatively, she acts as a mother figure to them- providing them with guidance and a sense of strength and purpose. Because

Read More
1393 Words | 6 Pages

When people are poor, they often have a lot of problems in their life. They struggle through every day, but they learn to appreciate everything that they have. However, when people are going through tough times, they often think that money will solve all of their problems. In “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, she guides the audience through a black family -- impacted by the need for money -- living on the south side of Chicago. The Younger family gets Lena Younger’s dead husband’s insurance check and buys a house in a white neighborhood, and they save the remainder of the money for Beneatha’s medical degree and for starting a liquor store.

Read More
1089 Words | 5 Pages

One of the main protagonists, Mama, is telling her son the reasons for what she did to help her family’s struggle. She says, “When it gets like that in life-you just got to do something different, push on out and do something bigger....” (588). The character Mama gets a check from the insurance company for $10,000 dollars due to her husband’s death and she doesn't know what to do with it. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Mama is motivated to/by the chance to get her family a house.

Read More
451 Words | 2 Pages

She does a great job exemplifying family through Mama’s potted plant. Hansberry never fails to show the importance of Mama’s family. At the end of the play, in the very last lie, Hansberry show the importance of Mama’s plant, “The door opens and she comes back in, grabs her plant, and goes out for the last

Read More
717 Words | 3 Pages

Her mother, Long braids tied together in the back, smiled at her from behind that door.” illustrating Lena’s relationship reminded her of home (Armstrong 240). Lena

Read More
1186 Words | 5 Pages

Meeting her mother 's daughters for the first time, is something that is very important in developing her. Accepting that her mother had this other life before her, makes it more believable in why she was the way she

Read More
916 Words | 4 Pages

The world stereotypes rich people as rude, stuck up and selfish. Ever wonder why? Studies from Yale, The New York Times, TED and more have concluded, money changes everything. Whether it’s attitude, morals or values, money can affect and change all aspects of someone’s life. The play, A Raisin in the Sun, has a theme showing this claim clearly.

Read More
1351 Words | 6 Pages

In a family there are many different roles; there's the role of the mother, the father, the child, the grandparents, then there’s the brothers and sisters. Every single one of those roles has different responsibilities. The father, according to most of society, is supposed to be the breadwinner for the family. However, nowadays the mother is actually quite capable of being the breadwinner just as much of as the father. As they work to show their children what it is to be an adult they are teaching them as well on how to be an active member of society.

Read More
702 Words | 3 Pages

Lena is a caring woman who loves her family. She is understanding of the problems of others, and can look past their mistakes no matter the gravity of what they've done. Even though both of her children are grown adults, she still has the motherly drive to protect them as if they were still young children.

Read More
963 Words | 4 Pages

Family is important to everyone in some way because family sticks together no matter what. The play A Raisin in the Sun is about a black family named the Youngers and the hardships they face together as a family. In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Ruth Younger is motivated by her family. This is shown by Ruth wanting to make her family happy, her working even though she is tired, and later when Ruth finds out there is going to be another mouth to feed. Ruth Younger is constantly worrying about her family’s well being and happiness for them.

Read More
795 Words | 4 Pages

Since her husband died she has taken charge. In every decision she makes she shows how much she cares about her family and puts them first. After her husband unexpectedly died the dreams he had for his family were placed into her hands and sprouted from there. Lena is very caring supportive, not only of her kids and

Read More
1499 Words | 6 Pages

She is clear- headed of what she wants. Although Lena is a woman of the 1950s, she is progressive. With the insurance money she received, she decides to buy a house in a white neighbourhood because she wants a better life for her family. Such a masculine personality in Mama comes from her experience to true oppression – slavery. Mama says that Walter is a “disgrace to [his] father’s memory” as she challenges Walter to fulfil his moral duty to succeed his father.

Read More

More about Character Analysis: A Raisin In The Sun By Lorraine Hansberry

Open Document