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Walter, Beneatha And Ruth In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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Everyone has a dream, no matter if it’s BIG or small; in this essay I will introduce you to the dreams of Walter, Beneatha and Ruth from the story, The Raisin in the Sun, By Lorraine Hansberry; the dreams they had, what they do to pursue them and what, somewhat, defer the dreams. It’s a lot of of problems, but they seem to get passed them. Walter is a black man in a poverty community. His mother gets a lump-some of money, which is $10,000. He has dreams to open up a family store to make sure his family is able to provide for themselves, which is a really good idea, but unfortunately, there is other priorities that have to take care of with the 10,000 dollars. Like he said in the book, “Listen, man, I got some plans that could turn this city upside down”P84 Meaning building into the store and helping it grow. He also said, “Invest big, gamble big, hell, lose big if you have to, you know what I mean.”P84 …show more content…

She is determined to be a doctor which shows in the book when she says, “I’m going to be a doctor and everybody around here better understand that!”P50 But part of the money is going to her college which takes away from the money Walter needs to open a business. She also says, “I never got over that… …That that was what one person could do for another, fix him up—set up the problem, make him all right again. That was the most marvelous thing in the world…I wanted to do that. I always that it was the one concrete thing in the world that a human being could do. Fix up the sick, you know—and make them whole again. …I wanted to cure. It used to be so important to me. I wanted to cure. It use to matter. I use to

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