I read the play A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959, also watched the play in black and white. I thought at the beginning, like O’ wow it’s black and white so it’s probably going to be boring, but it caught my attention. It wasn’t my favorite movie, but it wasn’t a bad movie either. The play and the film have a lot of similarities, the play goes more in depth about the nature they are in, but the film gave me a better picture in my head of the emotions and feelings the characters had.
The play begins in the Youngers living room of their apartment. They live on the south side of Chicago in a bad neighborhood, and torn up apartment. The apartment they lived in was for the poor, and back then people didn’t have a lot of money. Whites were
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The checked they were expecting was worth 10,000 dollars. It belonged to Mama, and everyone else didn’t want any of the money except Walter to invest in a liquor store. Mama had her mind set on putting some of the money aside to help Beneatha with graduating from medical school. Beneatha really wants to graduate and become a doctor. With the check arrives Walter tries to convince Mama to help invest in the liquor store. Since Mama is a Christian she doesn’t believe in putting money towards something like that. “Ledger this late in life”, it means she doesn’t want the liquor store written in her book of life, and she doesn’t “aim to speak on it again”..
In the film the bar he is trying to invest in is called Kitty Cat in the film, but in the play it is called Green Hat. Mama went to get Walter from the bar and she gave him 6,500 dollars. She told him he has “from now on he is to be the head of the family”. Now he has to help the family with any problems and he has to make all the important decisions involving the family. While all this is happening Beneatha finds out she is have a child and is two months