Compare And Contrast A Dream And A Raisin In The Sun

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A raisin in the sun is a novel about a poor African-American family living on the Southside of Chicago. they get an opportunity to escape from poverty comes in when a form of $10,000 life insurance check comes in and the family goes through trials on how the money would be spent.
The martin Luther king I have a dream speech is about how martin had a dream of everybody living in harmony. He envisioned that there would be little black children and little white children playing in the street with one another. Dr.king wanted everyone to know that they was not better than the man next to them, that god created everyone equal and they should be treated as such.
These two pieces of literature are very similar in meaning. Dr king mention that “ the
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Though his dream was not only a dream for himself but for all black people it relates to walter and his dream of having a liquor store. Walter wanted a liquor store to make him and his family more money so they would no longer be broke.While dr.king's dream was for all men to see that they are no different from the next ma.. Both men had a dream of making a bad situation better. The two of them wanted to make a difference, even though walters difference would have directly affected his family by a chain of events it would have affected many more; just as martin's dream did.
These two pieces of literature have one main thing in common they both contain the image of togetherness, Dr.king's main point of his speech is that if everyone would come together everyone will then be free of hatred for one another, That if man could stand side by side there would be nothing in the way of peace. While in the raisin in the sun the family was against each other in every way. Mama knew that when your family is divided it makes it easier for relationships to break. so she made the attempt to put everyone together again. So by the end of the novel they to were together and at

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