Topic > Raisins in the Sun - 591

Keeping your dream is exceptionally difficult especially in this world of racism and discrimination. In this world you are either fighting for your rights or you are fighting for your life. And to keep your life together, you have to have a motivation, in other words, a dream. In the book “A Raisin in the Sun” there is a constant fight over who dreams of being worth their mother's insurance money. Each character in the book has an American dream that they want to achieve. But the answer to realizing their “American Dream” is insurance money. Although the youngest family lives in difficult conditions, each of them has a dream that they will not give up despite having to work for the rest of their lives. Beneatha is the most educated of the entire Younger family and she also has a dream which is that one day you will become a doctor. Her lover, George, thinks like Walter. They both believe that women are only meant to cook and clean, but Beneatha thinks differently. She wants to make a change and show that women, black women, weren't just made to cook and clean, they were made to be...