Money Cannot Buy Everything
“If you want to feel rich just count all the things you have that money cannot buy”. (Anonymous) In “A Raisin in the Sun” the death of a family member allows the family to strike it rich with his insurance policy, yet what the family thought was better for them did not turn out as expected. Life with an excess of money became harder for them to function rather than the lifestyle they had lived with less wealth. Although the money bought the Younger family a new house, the opportunity to come close to purchasing a dream liquor store, and the ability to chase after any dream their greedy hearts desired, becoming rich was not all they thought it should be. Like the Youngers did at the beginning of the story, you find …show more content…
One of their leading issues within the story began as soon as the family decided to use the money to buy a house. As Ishma’ll Kushkush stated, “For decades, migrant, refugee and cultural policies have been open and tolerant. Critics, however, point to challenges of social and economic integration, citing huge disparities between the quality of life for African-Swedes and the larger society.” The location of the beautiful home belonged in a white neighborhood and created strife with their neighbors so much that they offered to buy them out of the house. While the white people attempted to take the Younger house, Ruth considered aborting her baby, and Walter was tricked by a liquor store scam. Through each event in the story and every dollar that was wasted, the family became more miserable with the people they had become, because they had stooped so low that they began to argue with each other over their “shared” …show more content…
“A Raisin in the Sun.” The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama.6th ed. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009. Print.
In-text citation: Summarized
Kushkush, Isma'Il. "For African-Swedes Struggling to Fit In, a 1959 Broadway Play Resonates." New York Times 3 Feb. 2016: A8(L). Academic OneFile. Web. 9 Apr. 2017.
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Leinonen, Johanna. “‘Money Is Not Everything and That's the Bottom Line’: Family Ties in Transatlantic Elite Migrations.” Social Science History, vol. 36, no. 2, 2012, pp. 243–268., www.jstor.org/stable/23258095.
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“If you want to feel rich just count all the things you have that money cannot buy”. (Anonymous) In “A Raisin in the Sun” the death of a family member allows the family to strike it rich with his insurance policy, yet what the family thought was better for them did not turn out as expected. Life with an excess of money became harder for them to function rather than the lifestyle they had lived with less wealth. Although the money bought the Younger family a new house, the opportunity to come close to purchasing a dream liquor store, and the ability to chase after any dream their greedy hearts desired, becoming rich was not all they thought it should be. Like the Youngers did at the beginning of the story, you find …show more content…
One of their leading issues within the story began as soon as the family decided to use the money to buy a house. As Ishma’ll Kushkush stated, “For decades, migrant, refugee and cultural policies have been open and tolerant. Critics, however, point to challenges of social and economic integration, citing huge disparities between the quality of life for African-Swedes and the larger society.” The location of the beautiful home belonged in a white neighborhood and created strife with their neighbors so much that they offered to buy them out of the house. While the white people attempted to take the Younger house, Ruth considered aborting her baby, and Walter was tricked by a liquor store scam. Through each event in the story and every dollar that was wasted, the family became more miserable with the people they had become, because they had stooped so low that they began to argue with each other over their “shared” …show more content…
“A Raisin in the Sun.” The Compact Bedford Introduction to Drama.6th ed. Ed. Lee A. Jacobus. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009. Print.
In-text citation: Summarized
Kushkush, Isma'Il. "For African-Swedes Struggling to Fit In, a 1959 Broadway Play Resonates." New York Times 3 Feb. 2016: A8(L). Academic OneFile. Web. 9 Apr. 2017.
In-text citation: Direct
Leinonen, Johanna. “‘Money Is Not Everything and That's the Bottom Line’: Family Ties in Transatlantic Elite Migrations.” Social Science History, vol. 36, no. 2, 2012, pp. 243–268., www.jstor.org/stable/23258095.
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