Made Up In A Raisin In The Sun

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are”-e. e. Cumming. In the book A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry writes about a black family living in the 1950’s in Chicago. During this time there were many racist people. Beneatha Younger, an ambitious, resilient, selfish young woman treated like a child by her family. At only twenty years old Bennie wants to become a doctor, but in order for her to do that she needs to mature. She into trying new things, but her family does not approve. The family of five made up by; Mama, Walter Lee, Ruth, Beneatha, and Travis. The family lives in a two bedroom apartment, Walter and Ruth share one a room, Mama and Beneatha the other, Walter and Ruth’s son Travis sleeps on the make up couch. The Younger family will be expecting a 10,000 dollar check in the mail. The family to receive a check from the death of Mama’s husband. With the money Beneatha hopes she will get some of it to help with college. Unlike the rest of her family, Beneatha looks beyond her immediate situation in an effort to understand herself as a member of a greater whole. As she

She has started to listen to music from her culture, she starts to dance like them. She also changed her hairstyle she wears a scarf on her head to hide her hair. She has changed what she wears. Her family thinks she crazy they don't think what she’s doing isn't going to last. Yet beneath what seems to be selfish, Beneatha's strengths are her spirit of independence, the fact that she’s a "new woman" who refuses to accept the traditional, spineless female role, and the fact that she’s so knowledgeable about Africa that her self-esteem enhanced. Beneatha's search for her identity is a motif carried throughout the play; the closer she gets to Africa via her relationship with Joseph Asagai, the more she develops into a pleasant, likeable, and less egocentric