A dream means to indulge in daydreams or fantasies, typically about something greatly desired. Everyone has had a dream at some point in their life. People will often tell the dreamers that it will never happen, that they’re stupid and should give up, but real dreamers never do. For dreamers the sky’s the limit, you could wish to be a liquor store owner or doctor like Walter and Beneatha in A Raisin In The Sun, you could wish to be a clown or to meet a mystery person like Dill and Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird, or you could wish for a better future like the black community in American Denial. Many people dismiss dreamers for being foolish, will they ever understand dreamers aspirations? Are fellow dreamers going to be the only ones who understand?
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In A Raisin In The Sun Walter’s dream is to become a liquor store owner. The Younger family is poor and doesn’t have the money to fulfill his dreams, so when his dad’s insurance check comes he hopes it’s his chance. But what’s done with the money is Lena’s choice, and she‘s not too keen on being involved in the liquor business. “Well— whether they drinks it or not ain’t none of my business. But whether I go into business selling it to ‘em is, and I don’t want that on my ledger this late in life”(Hansberry 42). She doesn’t accept Walters dreams because they are against her religious values. Religion was prominent for many in the 1950s, and it was especially for Lena. She isn’t going to embrace Walters dreams since she feels so strongly about her values, and isn’t willing to put them aside. Beneatha also has issues with …show more content…
Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird had many dreams for his future. Scout always looked forward to her summers with Dill because of his extensive imagination. Dills dreams are often obscure and hard to understand, but Scout appreciates them. When Scout finds out that Dill won’t be coming to Maycomb that summer she’s disappointed, but to her surprise Dill appears. That night they talk about their dreams for their future together. “Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered by morning lilies”(Lee 192). Scout and Dill share a lot of dreams together. Scout has been a dreamer just like Dill, so not only does she accept his dreams but she admirers them. She admirers his imagination because, as someone else who also loves dreaming, she knows how hard it is to cherish your dreams above all else. She idolizes his ability to not care about how fast he can read or do math, but rather how he can dream of better things. Scout has some of her own dreams too. She often expresses her dream of meeting Boo Radley. One day on her way home from school she walked passed the Radley house and imagined what it would be like to have a conversation with him. “I imagined how it
In A Raisin In The Sun Walter’s dream is to become a liquor store owner. The Younger family is poor and doesn’t have the money to fulfill his dreams, so when his dad’s insurance check comes he hopes it’s his chance. But what’s done with the money is Lena’s choice, and she‘s not too keen on being involved in the liquor business. “Well— whether they drinks it or not ain’t none of my business. But whether I go into business selling it to ‘em is, and I don’t want that on my ledger this late in life”(Hansberry 42). She doesn’t accept Walters dreams because they are against her religious values. Religion was prominent for many in the 1950s, and it was especially for Lena. She isn’t going to embrace Walters dreams since she feels so strongly about her values, and isn’t willing to put them aside. Beneatha also has issues with …show more content…
Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird had many dreams for his future. Scout always looked forward to her summers with Dill because of his extensive imagination. Dills dreams are often obscure and hard to understand, but Scout appreciates them. When Scout finds out that Dill won’t be coming to Maycomb that summer she’s disappointed, but to her surprise Dill appears. That night they talk about their dreams for their future together. “Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered by morning lilies”(Lee 192). Scout and Dill share a lot of dreams together. Scout has been a dreamer just like Dill, so not only does she accept his dreams but she admirers them. She admirers his imagination because, as someone else who also loves dreaming, she knows how hard it is to cherish your dreams above all else. She idolizes his ability to not care about how fast he can read or do math, but rather how he can dream of better things. Scout has some of her own dreams too. She often expresses her dream of meeting Boo Radley. One day on her way home from school she walked passed the Radley house and imagined what it would be like to have a conversation with him. “I imagined how it