In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorrain Hansberry, Beneatha has many qualities that are brought to light through-out the entire play. Her dream of becoming a doctor, her many ways of expressing herself, and the fact that she is an assimilationist are all shown throughout the play.
When Beneatha was a little girl, she and some of the other children in her neighborhood, would pack the ice-covered steps of houses down the street with snow to sled down because there were no hills. While sledding down the steps one day a young boy named Rufus came down too fast on the steep steps and ended up hitting the side walk, splitting open his face. The next time Beneatha saw him after he had been taken away in an ambulance, he had a little line down the middle of his face from the stiches the doctors had used to fix him up. From then on she wanted to be a doctor. Beneatha tries explaining this to Asagai in seen three of the play by telling him, “I never got over that … that that was what one person could do for another, fix him up-sew up the problem, make him all right again. That was the most marvelous thing in the world … I wanted to do that” (133). …show more content…
Mama and Ruth notice the way she is always trying new things and always moving of quickly without sticking to anything for very long. She has tried horse-back-riding, acting, photography, and her latest interest is learning to play the guitar. Beneatha tells Mama and Ruth that she is trying to find herself and inner personality, she says to Mama and Ruth “people have to express themselves on way or another” (48), and at that they laugh. Mama asks Beneatha “Why you got to flit from one thing to another, baby” (46)? Mama and Ruth believe that Beneatha is wasting her time and money on things that don’t matter and she should put her time to better
When Beneatha was a little girl, she and some of the other children in her neighborhood, would pack the ice-covered steps of houses down the street with snow to sled down because there were no hills. While sledding down the steps one day a young boy named Rufus came down too fast on the steep steps and ended up hitting the side walk, splitting open his face. The next time Beneatha saw him after he had been taken away in an ambulance, he had a little line down the middle of his face from the stiches the doctors had used to fix him up. From then on she wanted to be a doctor. Beneatha tries explaining this to Asagai in seen three of the play by telling him, “I never got over that … that that was what one person could do for another, fix him up-sew up the problem, make him all right again. That was the most marvelous thing in the world … I wanted to do that” (133). …show more content…
Mama and Ruth notice the way she is always trying new things and always moving of quickly without sticking to anything for very long. She has tried horse-back-riding, acting, photography, and her latest interest is learning to play the guitar. Beneatha tells Mama and Ruth that she is trying to find herself and inner personality, she says to Mama and Ruth “people have to express themselves on way or another” (48), and at that they laugh. Mama asks Beneatha “Why you got to flit from one thing to another, baby” (46)? Mama and Ruth believe that Beneatha is wasting her time and money on things that don’t matter and she should put her time to better