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Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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The Symbolism of Me… The Plant Symbolism is everywhere, like carbon dioxide needed for me to live. In case you did not know already symbolism is the picture or symbol that represents something else. Just like how a rose represents love. In the drama “ A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry I, the Plant, represent everything Mama went through. “A Raisin in the Sun” starts later on in Mama’s life in 1959.She lives in Southside Chicago, where she owns the house that her daughter Beneatha, son Walter, his wife Ruth and their son Travis live in. They, the Younger family, are waiting for a ten thousand dollar check from Mama’s late husband’s life insurance. All of them have different expectations for what should happen with the money, but Walter …show more content…

When her life is going well, I am growing and thriving. On the other hand,when Mama is going through hard times I begin to die. This may all sound very confusing but I am there throughout the whole drama. I first appear on pg 39 of the drama when "(Mama) She crosses through the room, goes to the window, opens it and brings in a feeble little plant growing doggedly in a small pot on the windowsill. She feels the dirt and places it back out." Like me, Mama's life is barely hanging on by a thread. She is fighting to survive and just living day by day. Another example is when the book says "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"(pg 40) When Mama is saying this she is also talking about her life. What is meant by this is, if nothing happens in her life,it change the way it is it might not last much longer either. This is not necessarily meant in a way that her life will end, but more of her hope and dreams will die. Lastly indirectly I'm mentioned in the book when it says "Slowly she opens her package and lifts out, one by one, a brand-new sparkling set of gardening tools." (pg 123) This quote represents the new tools Mama has to build up her new life in her new

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In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, One theme is that a mother will do anything to teach her children money isn’t everything, to never give up on their dreams, and to make her family happy. For Mama’s whole life, she has been trying to teach her family that money isn’t everything, but it seems that ever since they knew that they were getting an insurance check that seems to be all they talk about. Right, when Walter woke up he started to ask about the insurance check and when it was coming, so when Mama wakes up she says "Somebody would have thought my children done starved to death the way they talk about money here late...”(330). This quote is important because it shows that the family is talking about money like they are starving and don't have food, but in reality they are so worried about what mama is going to do with the money because they all want it used a different way to benefit themselves or their dream, but some of the family disagree and want to leave it to Mama to choose what happens to it because it's her money and it's not right for them to ask for it or use it how they want to.

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