From the dialogs and the monologues in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, choose lines that represent the characters listed below best. Explain why you think the chosen lines are representative of the characters.
Mama
Walter
Beneatha
Ruth
George
Asagai
Mama is caring, loyal, and proud of her heritage.
I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers – but ain’t nobody in my family never let nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk the earth. We ain’t never been that poor. (Raising her eyes and looking at him) We ain’t never been that – dead inside. (Act III, scene i)
Water is desperate to succeed, no matter the cost.
Mama – sometimes when I’m downtown and I pass them cool-quiet-looking restaurants where them white boys are sitting back and talking ‘bout things…sitting there turning deals worth millions of dollars…sometimes I see guys don’t look much older than me. (Act I, scene ii)
Why? You want to know why? ‘Cause we all tied up in a race of people that don’t know how to do nothing but moan, pray and have babies! (Act II, scene ii)
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A Raisin in the Sun
