An Analysis of A Raisin In the Sun
"A Raisin In The Sun" is a play written by an African-American
playwright - Lorraine Hansberry. It was first produced in 1959. Lorraine
Hansberry's work is about a black family in the Chicago's South-Side after
the Second World War. The family consisted of Mama(Lena Younger), Walter
Lee(her son), Ruth (his wife), Travis (their son), and Beneatha (Walters
younger sister). The Younger family lived in poor conditions, and can't
afford to have better living standards. However, Lena is waiting to
receive a $10,000 check from her late-husbands insurance money. The two
main characters in the play, Mama and Walter, want this money to be used
for the benefits of the whole family. Even though both of them want to
benefit the family, each one has a different idea of what to do with the
money and how to manage it to benefit everyone.
Walter Lee, like his father want's his family to have a better life
and want's to invest the money in a liquor store. Walter want's the money
so that he can prove that he is capable of making a future for his family.
By doing well in business Walter thinks that he can buy his family
happiness. Walter has dreams. Dreams he most likely got from his father.
Dreams of better life for his family and himself. A dream of financial
security and comfortable living. Ruth, on the other hand is stable and down
to earth. She doesn't make rash choices to accommodate a dream. She will
just make do with what she has. Mama is a loving person, she is wise but
lives in the past. She is happy to have her family with and be safe from
society. She thinks that money is not something that makes a family happy.
Besides dreams Walter also has a husbands responsibilities which
are universally thought of as being able to support his family and raise
his children so they are morally in line with what he believes in. Walter's
problem, however, seems to be that he is building his supposedly well
thought out plan of investing money in a liquor store into something he is
infactuated with. By creating this infactuation, he is not able to achieve
his responsibilities. Besides having responsibilities Walter also has his
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She could have spent the money on herself, however; she wants to buy a house where the family can call it their own. Mama wants to give a better life to her family that she never had. Mama unselfishness shows that she would do anything for her family. Mama would rather spend the money on the family than spending it on herself. When Mama was younger her and husband did not have the money for the American dream that they believed in. Now Mama has the money to achieve her dream.
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...ey have surrounded her with. She longs for a deeper connection with her past, but she realizes this is not to be, at least not as far as her family is concerned. She must adhere to the role of the loyal daughter as it has been established through many generations, and strive not to shame the family as her aunt did many years ago.
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Millions of Americans are without health insurance in the United States due to many factors such as unemployment, the cost of insurance and insurance companies denying coverage due to pre-existing conditions. The United States does not provide health care to its citizens the way the rest of the industrialized world does. Instead of providing coverage for all it institutes market-based options, in which some receive coverage from their place of employment, another options are purchasing individual plans and some can obtain coverage through public programs like Medicaid. The United States is the only westernized industrial nation without a universal health care system.
Over 46.3 Million People in the United States (15.4 percent of the US population) did not have health insurance in 2008 (DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, & Smith, 2009). Consequently, many Americans receive little or no health care. Many, but not all of these people are women and children. Some are destitute, some are not. Many of these people are hard working Americans who cannot afford coverage, yet earn too much money to qualify for their state Medicaid plans, but should have access to health care. In 2008, health care expenditures surpassed $2.3 trillion, more than three times the $714 billion spent in 1990, and over eight times the $253 billion spent in 1980 (Kimbuende, Ranji, Lundy, & Salganicoff, 2010, para. 1). In 2007, 62.1 Percent of all US bankruptcies were related to medical expenses. Ironically, 78 percent of the medical bankruptcies were filed by people who had health insurance (Himmelstein, Thorne, Warren, & Woolhandler, 2009). Due to the rising costs of healthcare and increased numbers of the uninsured most Americans support the need for healthcare reform; however the reform that is proposed by the government is unfair, too expensive and inadequate to meet the needs of our population.
Because of this “approximately twenty to forty-five thousand people die in the United States each year due to a lack of health insurance.” (Obamacare) Not only that but “about fifty-three million Americans have admitted, with or without insurance, they cannot afford to see a doctor.” (LUHBY)
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at the place and situation she is now in because of her servitude to her
Then shortly after that we return to the flashback and the reasons for her praying. The storyline, which is told in the past tens, begins when the family moves to America from China, and ends up blending in with the storyline in present tense that starts and ends with the mother praying.
of her past for the majority of the play. When she was young she lived