Dreams are ideas and thoughts we ponder on, hoping that one day we may meet it. Sometimes we accomplish this and other times, we are close but not quite there. A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry and Of Mice and Men, a novella by John Steinbeck have a similar theme, dream. A Raisin in the Sun is about a lower class African-American family, the Youngers, trying to better their lives with an insurance check coming in due to the death of their father and husband. Lena Younger (Mama) is the head of the household. She is the mother of two, Beneatha and Walter Lee, and a grandma of one, Travis, Walter Lee and Ruth’s son. Mama demands that the family respect themselves and take pride in their dreams. Of Mice and Men tells a story about
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Mama, from A Raisin in the Sun, dreams about owning a house with a garden one day. Currently, they are living in a two-bedroom apartment where the share down the hall with other people. Mama sleeps with Beneatha, Walter and Ruth share a room, and Travis sleeps in the living room. In the beginning of the play, Mama is talking to Ruth about what she wants to do with the insurance check. Ruth suggests that she travel somewhere but Mama have other plans. Mama looks at Ruth hesitantly before saying, “... Been thinking that we could meet the notes on a little two-story somewhere, with a yard where Travis could play …show more content…
Mama faces people who try to discourage her about moving to Clybourne Park. Clybourne Park is an all white neighborhood where Mama purchased a house with the some of the check money. Some people are skeptical about them moving there especially Miss. Johnson. She is Mama’s loudmouth neighbor. She informed Mama and Ruth about people that were bombed around the neighborhood they are about to live in. Miss Johnson said to Mama, “ … I bet it was his (Walter) idea y’all moving out to Clybourne Park. Lord- I bet this time next month y’all names will have been in the papers plenty- “NEGROES INVADE CLYBOURNE PARK- BOMBED” (Hansberry 102). Because Miss Johnson is an African American, people do not believe that she can survive in an all white community. Even her fellow African American friend think that she will be bombed if she does move there. A representative from Clybourne Park, Mr. Lindner, came to the Younger household to bribe them. “Our association is prepared, through the collective effort of our people, to buy the house from you at a financial gain to your family”, Mr. Lindner explained to Walter, Beneatha, and Ruth. The segregation came to the extent that the whole community put together to bribe the Younger family out of the town. Before Mr. Lindner came to the house, Mama trusted Walter to invest the rest of the insurance check.
Mama, from A Raisin in the Sun, dreams about owning a house with a garden one day. Currently, they are living in a two-bedroom apartment where the share down the hall with other people. Mama sleeps with Beneatha, Walter and Ruth share a room, and Travis sleeps in the living room. In the beginning of the play, Mama is talking to Ruth about what she wants to do with the insurance check. Ruth suggests that she travel somewhere but Mama have other plans. Mama looks at Ruth hesitantly before saying, “... Been thinking that we could meet the notes on a little two-story somewhere, with a yard where Travis could play …show more content…
Mama faces people who try to discourage her about moving to Clybourne Park. Clybourne Park is an all white neighborhood where Mama purchased a house with the some of the check money. Some people are skeptical about them moving there especially Miss. Johnson. She is Mama’s loudmouth neighbor. She informed Mama and Ruth about people that were bombed around the neighborhood they are about to live in. Miss Johnson said to Mama, “ … I bet it was his (Walter) idea y’all moving out to Clybourne Park. Lord- I bet this time next month y’all names will have been in the papers plenty- “NEGROES INVADE CLYBOURNE PARK- BOMBED” (Hansberry 102). Because Miss Johnson is an African American, people do not believe that she can survive in an all white community. Even her fellow African American friend think that she will be bombed if she does move there. A representative from Clybourne Park, Mr. Lindner, came to the Younger household to bribe them. “Our association is prepared, through the collective effort of our people, to buy the house from you at a financial gain to your family”, Mr. Lindner explained to Walter, Beneatha, and Ruth. The segregation came to the extent that the whole community put together to bribe the Younger family out of the town. Before Mr. Lindner came to the house, Mama trusted Walter to invest the rest of the insurance check.