By viewing life as a curving line, Asagai is subscribing to optimism and faith. He sees that in the end, dreams can be achieved and success can be attained, even if not in a conventional way. In Beneatha’s hardest time, she loses hope and decides that life in a circular trap and the entire human race is marching in an aimless direction. Asagai’s view allows for life’s surprises. Therefore, I agree with his optimistic philosophy. Without realizing it, Walter may be making progress in the minds of his white neighbors and employers by showing determination and ambition. The Younger family as a whole is also showing these valuable qualities by going through with their move to Clybourne Park. Walter even says, “We have decided to move into our house - because my father - he earned it for us, brick by brick”
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From Lena’s time to Travis’s, there has been a vast amount of change in terms of racial equality. One might argue that inequality is still ever present, and that is true. However, injustice is manifesting itself differently. In Lena’s time segregation was perfectly legal - from restaurants to bathrooms to water fountains. In Travis’s race has become an unspoken barrier, a rule that blacks and whites cannot interact on the same level. On a different note, Asagai notes that America is a land of opportunity and advancement. At the same time, he has a great deal of ethnic pride and great love for Africa. (49) This shows that there has been global progress. Finally the move to Clybourne park represents the overcoming of an obstacle. That same hindrance may not have been thwarted in Lena’s time. However, it is undeniable that history has repeated in the past. We have seen discrimination from the Holocaust to Apartheid in South Africa. But this does not acknowledge small changes in people's minds that might be making all the difference in the
From Lena’s time to Travis’s, there has been a vast amount of change in terms of racial equality. One might argue that inequality is still ever present, and that is true. However, injustice is manifesting itself differently. In Lena’s time segregation was perfectly legal - from restaurants to bathrooms to water fountains. In Travis’s race has become an unspoken barrier, a rule that blacks and whites cannot interact on the same level. On a different note, Asagai notes that America is a land of opportunity and advancement. At the same time, he has a great deal of ethnic pride and great love for Africa. (49) This shows that there has been global progress. Finally the move to Clybourne park represents the overcoming of an obstacle. That same hindrance may not have been thwarted in Lena’s time. However, it is undeniable that history has repeated in the past. We have seen discrimination from the Holocaust to Apartheid in South Africa. But this does not acknowledge small changes in people's minds that might be making all the difference in the