Importance Of Family In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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After the Youngers move into their new home many changes occur with the family, financially and emotionally. There are many characters in the book and that brings a lot of changes. As we know, the Youngers moved into their new home bypassing everything that Mr. Linder from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. Mr. Linder came to their old apartment to let them know that the people living at Clybourne Park were kind of bothered that they were going to move in. This caused lots of problems because he mentioned that the people at Clybourne Park wanted the people that were moving in to share something in common, like the same culture. Mr. Linder also said that they didn’t want the community to be disrupted. This made the family very angry and Walter wanted nothing but to ask Mr. Linder for the money back because he didn’t want to lose …show more content…
After the book, he learned that there was really nothing more important than what he had with him. Since Walter lee gave the money to Willy Harrison and he took off with it, there was nothing he could do to get it back. Fortunately, Walter found Willy Harrison’s bar and sued him for fraud, Willy was found guilty and forced to give twice the money that he stole. When Walter received the money he invested exactly half for beneathas medical studies and the rest he kept to manage the home. As the head of the house he was extremely happy because mama had gained all the trust she once lost. Walter learned that his dream needed to be taken step by step and so he started working at a liquor shop to kind of get a hang of how to manage it. After a while he started to make new contacts and by the time his youngest baby was 5 he had already bought his own liquor shop. This made the whole family proud and with the money they began to collect he raised enough to actually expand his house. The whole family started to invest in the house to make it the house of their

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