How Is Harlem Exposed In A Raisin In The Sun

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Achieving one's goals can be very hard and rather restricting. In the reading A Raisin in the Sun and the poetry by Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes this theme can has been portrayed. These texts have portrayed this common theme by exposing issues that had affected people, explaining what happens to their dream, and what occurs thereafter. The book A Raisin in the Sun portrays this central idea by uncovering the harsh and taunting lives of the younger facing racial tensions. In supporting of this,In page 71 Walter is in a strong argument with his mother and states, “well, you tell that to my boy tonight when you put him to sleep on the living room couch... Yeah and tell it to my wife, Mama, tomorrow when she has to go to look after somebody else's kids.” As you can see Walter is having an argument with his mother and bring period in fact, and Page 119 a Caucasian male named Mr. Linder try to get the youngers consent to remove them out the already white neighborhood,“ What do you think you are going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where You just aren't wanted.” it is clear that the …show more content…

does it dry up Like A Raisin in the Sun or Fester like a sore. Harlem inquired what happens to a dream when it is forgotten or postponed. In support of this, the text A Raisin in the Sun on page 148, Walter changes his mind about the deal he was to make with mr. Linder, we don't want to make no trouble for but nobody or fight no causes... We don't want your money. For this reason, Walter noticed that his American Dream wasn't going to positively affect his family and so he put away such thoughts and changed his mind undoubtedly Harlem and A Raisin in the Sun portray the central idea by showing what happens to a dream that is forgotten and the actions Walter took in putting away his

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