-
Essay / Midterm Exam - 778
In the film Raisin in the Sun, the plot focuses on the struggles of The Younger family, an African-American family who lives in a cramped apartment in the city of Chicago . The Youngers' main struggle in the film is determining how to spend the inheritance money that their recently deceased Walter Younger Snr had left behind as an inheritance. Within the family dynamic lies a conflict between the ideals of Walter Snr's wife, Lena, and his stubborn son, Walter, who wants to use the money to expand an alcohol business, become rich and lose his dignity of a hard-working man. Another major conflict opposes Beneatha and her brother, Walter, her mother, Lena, and Ruth, her pregnant sister-in-law. Beneatha Younger is the youngest in Walter Senior's original family, his mom, Lena Younger, and his headstrong. , stupid older brother Walter Junior. Beneatha, also known as Bennie, is a young student in her twenties who dreams of becoming a doctor, which is crazy and unsupported during this time. Bennie is young, stubborn, stubborn, and weak-minded, especially when faced with other people's ideas and beliefs with which she does not agree. It is through film that Beneatha struggles to define her identity as a woman, an African, and as a person living in the city of Chicago, in order to create a more composed person. There are several key moments in the film that Beneatha changes based on them. the actions and behaviors expected of his family. At the beginning of the film, Beneatha gets easily upset about having to share a bathroom with her family. Walter tells her that she needs to get up earlier, "when do you suggest at dawn?" ยป she declares in a sarcastic voice. A mixture of irritation and saracasm, leads Walter to understand that his sister is not taking his su...... middle of paper ......tage, and Asagai. Beneatha's final example of socialization comes from her brother Walter's final judgment, when he fails to save his money and considers giving up their family's dignity by selling their new home to the white community. Walter announced that he had called the people at Clyborne Park to set up an appointment for them to come and take over the house. Beneatha dismisses Walter as her brother "a toothless rat" because there was nothing else in him as a man to give up, over their family's situation and for using the reward of the house to right his mistake . There, Lena tells Beneatha that she must still love Walter, that even though her mother taught her to despise any man who gives up or kneels, Lena gave Beneatha another lesson to love her brother no matter what." (even if it failed the most, there is always something to love.)"