An African-American Experience

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He looks her straight in the eyes and tells her “you ain’t even looked at it and you have decided-well, you tell that to my boy tonight when you put him to sleep on the living-room couch. Through the lives of these two courageous families one can have an understanding for not only the struggle for African-American families, but for all family struggles. The Younger family even encounters a more serious racial issue, that of racism when Mr. ” American Drama, 1940-1960: A Critical History 1994. The character of Walter Younger is filled with joy when he hears that the insurance check has arrived, but switches to disappointment when Mama tells him that he isn’t going to invest in a liquor store.

The issue of family heritage plays an essential part in both of these dramas. This displays in Walter a low moral conduct, which even decreases lesser when he comes home drunk in the next act. On the other hand, Beneatha doesn’t believe in God and thinks “there is only man and it is He who makes miracles” (Hansberry 1745). In A

Raisin in the Sun Mama thanks God for virtually everything in her life and is a very religious person.

Although in A Raisin in the Sun Walter Younger has a dream for himself, other characters have dreams also, dreams that deal with achieving freedom for oneself and in some instances for others as well.

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Approximate Word count = 1488
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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