Martin Luther King's A Raisin In The Sun

Dreams can have a bigger impact on life than we could ever imagine. But, what I have come to realize is, unless you put your dreams into action, it will always be a dream. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream and put it into action by giving his “I Have A Dream” speech. The main character, Walter, put his dream into action in the play, A Raisin in the Sun. Both people were fighting for the rights and the feeling of equality in this nation and seemed to make a difference and movement. In the “I Have A Dream ” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. mentions this, “...citizens of colored are concerned.” (King1). This is establishing the uneasiness and inequality of colored people in a roundabout way. I think this relates to A Raisin in the Sun in the incident

stated, “...thank God Almighty…” (King3) in his “I Have A Dream” speech. I noticed that he mentioned God in his speech often. In the play, there was a big dispute between Beneatha and Mama over God. In the dispute Mama made it clear that God was important to them and Beneatha was crazy to not believe in His power. Martin Luther King Jr. was very clear and made the point of how important God was in their culture. Another thing in the speech he talks about is having faith and hope for a change. He describes it as, “This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.”(King3). By making this remark, Martin Luther King Jr. is telling everyone that when you leave to have hope and faith for a change. He says that if you have those things, everyone will be able to exceed out of this wrath of inequality. In the play, Walter never lost hope of having the liquor store. When the man ran with his money, he still tried to have a little hope in having the store. Although it didn’t work, he kept

stated in his speech, “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.” (King2). In this, he is exclaiming how the negro culture must handle the struggle of inequality with dignity and by discipline to themselves. In the play, George and Asagai were at different states in their black culture. George being a rich African-American and Asagai being a middle class African. They go through the same struggles and persecution but are at different places in their life. Although they both George and Asagai might have different amounts of money or class; they both must handle their struggles with dignity and discipline. From this, you can see the similarities between the speech and play. It is two different people and situations experiencing the same struggles and having to handle it the same