React: The opening of scene one struck me as extremely peculiar. Beneatha had never been so interested in Nigeria, but the moment Asagai explained his opinion on that Beneatha changed completely. She strikes me as an indecisive individual, and quite unsure of who she is as a person. It is also weird when Walter returns from bar hopping and joins in on the commotion Beneatha is making. It seems that for a small moment, Walter and Beneatha are bonding. I do not understand why Walter became so upset when he found out that Mama bought a house.
Respond: If the Younger family were a white family, they would definitely have less financial and social problems. Every member of the Younger family has a low paying, labor intensive job. During the time period when this was written, it was difficult for black people to find high paying jobs, considering most of them were open to white people first and foremost. It is interesting how Mr. Lindner and his organization made it a point to ask the Younger family if they would move somewhere else; it is so amazing the extents people would go to during that time period to segregate black people.
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I am pretty sure Hansberry includes details from her own life when Mr. Lindner mentions the bombing of the homes of black people; a group of white people gathered around Hansberry’s home, which was in a white neighborhood, and threw bricks at her and her family. Despite having grown up in a time of horrible segregation, Hansberry did not allow that to stop her from achieving her