Harlem Poem Vs. The Raisin In The Sun

Does every American citizen know what the American Dream is? What is the true definition of the American Dream? What is the reality of the American Dream? The true definition of the American Dream is the ideal that every U.S citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination and initiative. The American Dream to me is that every citizen should have their own opportunity to pursue their own dreams, goals, to have freedom and to be successful in life. Everyone citizen has their own reality to them about what the American Dream is for them in their life of what their dreams are. In this essay the first paragraph will be about the Harlem Poem vs The Raisin in the Sun book. The second paragraph

In the poem all of the lines are questions besides one of the lines. The one line in the poem that is not asking a question is “Maybe it just sags like a heavy load”. It’s talking about weather the dream is going to succeed or if it's going fail. One part of the poem that I think is good is when it says “Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet?” This part of the poem is mainly explaining that either the dream is going down hill or that it's succeeding. In the book The Raisin in the Sun there are a few characters that have a dream of their own. One of the characters is Walter Lee Jr. and his dream is to own his own liquor store. “I want so many things that they are driving me crazy… Mama - Look at me.” Walter wants to own his own business, but not everything goes right. He does not have the money to own his own liquor stores, and his business partners lied to him and took his money from him. Beneatha is another character from the book and she is the daughter to Walter and Ruth. Her dream is to be a doctor. “(Dropping to her knees) Well – I do – all right? – thank everybody! And forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all! (Pursuing him on her knees across the floor) FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME!.” Beneatha is apologizing for having a dream, but she is always driven to become a

This poem is from the perspective of an African-American Mother. It talks about what she should tell her children who are black and in a place where white has been made to respect. “I will lift up their heads in proud blackness With the story of their fathers and their fathers Fathers.” This part of the poem is talking about how the mother will tell her children to be proud about their race. The mother will tell them stories about their father and their fathers fathers about their life. Another part from the poem that is good is “For my children, even as I sacrificed to feed, Clothe and shelter them. So this I will do for them If I love them.” This part of the poem is explaining that the mother will also car for her children and take them of them all of the time by feeding them and giving them a place to live. In the book The Raisin in the Sun is about an African-American family living in a bad house. The mother Lena of the Walter is always caring for the family. “…Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head 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.” Lena is saying that her life dreams are for her family and making sure they get