Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Final Exam Review - A Raisin in the Sun

Final Exam Review Project - Period Schedule

Please follow the following schedule
when completing each final exam review activity.

Friday, 1/7 - Period 2 - A Raisin in the Sun
Friday, 1/7 - Period 7 - Of Mice and Men

Monday, 1/10 - Period 2 - Of Mice and Men
Friday, 1/10 - Period 7 - A Raisin in the Sun
In the comments section, record an entry the contains the following components:
  1. one significant quotation from A Raisin in the Sun
  2. the speaker of the quotation
  3. to whom the quotation is being spoken
  4. your name (to receive credit)
There are a few stipulations. First, no repeats. Second, first come, first served. Third, the more significant and important your quotation, the more helpful this study guide will become.

62 comments:

  1. "NEGROES INVADE CLYBOURNE PARK-BOMBED!" (p.102). Mrs. Johnson to Mama.

    "Well--what you think your grandmama gone and done with that money?" (p.91). Mama to Walter, Travis and Ruth.

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  2. "Damn these eggs!" Walter to Ruth.

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  3. "Damn all the eggs that ever was!"

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  4. "And we also have the category of what the association calls -uh-special comunity problems..."(p.115)Mr. Lidner to Beneatha, Walter,and Ruth.

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  5. "He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain..."(p.151) Mama to Ruth

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  6. "No . . . something has changed. You something new, boy. In my time we was worried about not being lynched . . . You ain’t satisfied or proud of nothing we done. I mean that you had a home; that we kept you out of trouble till you was grown; that you don’t have to ride to work on the back of nobody’s streetcar—You my children—but how different we done become." (p. 62). Mama to Walter.


    "And from now on any penny that come out of it or that go in it is for you to look after. For you to decide. It ain't much, but it's all I got in the world and I'm putting in your hands. I'm telling you to be head of this family from now on like you supposed to be." (p. 107) Mama to Walter.

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  7. “That’s it. There you are. A man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. ” (pg. 33) Walter to Ruth

    …Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, "Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while." (pgs. 45-46) Mama to Ruth.

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  8. “Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you—why can’t you do something for the family?” (pg. 37) Walter to Beneatha

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  9. Girl, I do believe you are the first person in the history of the entire human race to successfully brainwash yourself.
    Walter to Beneatha, Pg. 98

    "It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concern that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities."
    Mr. Lindner to Walter, Beneatha, and Ruth, Pg. 118

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  10. "Have we figured out yet just exactly how much medical school is going to cost?" (pg 36) Walter to Beneatha

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  11. "Oh—So now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really do change..." (pg. 74) Mama to Walter.

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  12. "Once upon a time freedom used to be life...I guess the world really do change."(74)Mama says this to Walter after he becomes money hungry.


    "We one group of men tied to a race of woman with small minds!"(35)Walter says this to Ruth because she seems to have no faith in his big dreams of being aa rich,successful,bar owner.

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  13. "So-I would rather be living in the Buckingham Palace."(34)"We've put enough rent into this here rat trap."(44)Ruth says this to Walter and Mama because she is unhappy with their current, small apartment and is ready for a change.

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  14. Mr. lindner to walter, "I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply doesn’t enter into it. It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities.
    (65)"

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  15. "I’ll work … I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to – but we got to MOVE! We got to get OUT OF HERE!!(74)"

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  16. "Why must you and your brother make an argument out of everything people say?"

    Ruth to Bennie(81)

    "Well-well-it's out there in Clybourne Park"

    Mama to Walter&Ruth

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  17. "cause ain't nobody with me! not even my own mother!"
    walter to ruth (85)

    "you see-in the face of all things i have said, we are prepared to make your family a very generous offer...."
    lindner to walter (118)

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  18. "There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing." Mama to Beneatha.

    "We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors." Walter to Mr. Linder

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  19. Mama said, "Oh So now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really do change."
    Then Walter said, "No it was always money, Mama. We just didn’t know about it."

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  20. “Yes,he was a fine man—just couldn’t never catch up with his dreams that’s all.” (30) Mama To Ruth

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  21. Let’s face it, baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass huts!
    GeOrGe to Benatha
    (52)

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  22. "Talking 'bout life, Mama. You all always telling me to see life like it is. Well-I laid in there on my back today...and I figured it out. Life just like it is. Who gets and who don't get," page 141
    Walter to Mama

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  23. Hope Nichole MaranianJanuary 6, 2011 at 6:49 PM

    "…There ain’t no causes – there ain’t nothing but taking in this world, and he who takes most is smartest – and it don’t make a damn bit of difference how" (94)
    Walter to Mama

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  24. Mama said to Beneatha: "There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing."

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  25. wait nevermind i didn't see that agatha did that one already. my new one is: "Then isn’t there something wrong in a house—in a world—where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?" Asagi to Beneatha

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  26. Well-I do-all right?-thank everybody! and forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all. FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME! Benethea to Ruth, Mama, and Walter

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  27. "Then isn’t there something wrong in a house — in a world — where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?...I LIVE THE ANSWER!" Asagai to Beneatha

    Danielle Yapor

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  28. "I don’t want nothing but for you to stop acting holy ‘round here. Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you – why can’t you do something for the family?" Walter to Beneatha

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  29. "So you butchered up a dream of mine – you – who always talking ‘bout your children’s dreams…" Walter to Mama

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  30. "I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago… I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to – but we got to MOVE! We got to get OUT OF HERE!!" Lena to Ruth

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  31. Walter to Ruth "You tired, ain't you? Tired of everything. Me, the boy, the way we live- this beat-up hole- everything." (pg. 33)

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  32. “I don’t go out with you to discuss the nature of ‘quiet desperation’ or to hear all about your thoughts—because the world will go on thinking what it thinks regardless--”
    George to Beneatha

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  33. "….Have you cried for that boy today? I don’t mean for yourself and for the family ‘cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think it is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learnin’….”
    Mama to Beneatha

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  34. “That’s it. There you are. A man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. ” (15) Walter to Ruth

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  35. “‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams….’” (29) Mama to Ruth

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  36. Beneatha to Asagai, "An end to misery! To stupidity! Don't you see there isn't any real progress, Asagai, there is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture in front of us - our own little mirage that we think is the future"(134).

    Mama to Ruth, "They spirited all right, my children. Got to admit they got spirit - Bennie and Walter. Like this little old plant that ain't never had enough sunshine or nothing- and look at it..."(52).

    Mama to Ruth, "Well, I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home. This plant is close as I ever got to having one"(53).

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  37. Honey, you never say nothing new. I listen to you every day, every night and every morning, and you never say nothing new. (Shrugging) So you would rather be Mr. Arnold than be his chauffeur. So – I would rather be living in Buckingham Palace.
    -Ruth to Walter

    Honey, Big Walter would come in here some nights back then and slump down on that couch there and just look at the rug, and look at me and look at the rug and then back at me – and I’d know he was down then… really down. And then, Lord, when I lost that baby – little Claude – I almost thought I was going to lose Big Walter too. Oh, that man grieved hisself! He was one man to love his children.
    -Mama to Ruth

    I guess that’s how come that man finally worked hisself to death like he done. Like he was fighting his own war with this here world that took his baby from him.
    -Mama to Ruth

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  38. "I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy...Mama-look at me"

    Walter to Mama

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  39. Mama says to Walter, "Oh—So now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really do change" (pg. 74)

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  40. Walter says to Mr. Asagai: "You see, Mr. Asagai, I am looking for my identity!"

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  41. Mama says to Ruth, " Well, I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home"(53).

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  42. Ruth says to Mama and Walter. " Oh, let him go on out and drink himself to death! He makes me sick to my stomach!" (71)

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  43. "See there, that just goes to show you what women understand about the world. Baby, don’t nothing happen for you in this world ‘less you pay somebody off!"

    Walter to Ruth(page 33)

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  44. "THAT MONEY WAS MADE OUT OF MY FATHER'S FLESH"(128) Walter to Bobo

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  45. Ruth: "Honey...life don’t have to be like this. I mean sometimes people can do things so that things are better...You remember how we used to talk when Travis was born…about the way we were going to live…the kind of house.... Well, it’s all starting to slip away from us… (Ruth to Walter)

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  46. Walter: We have decided to move into our house because my father—my father—he earned it for us brick by brick. We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that’s all we got to say about that. We don’t want your money. (Walter, to Mr. Linder)

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  47. "Well - I don't understand why you people are reacting this way. What do you think you are going to gain by moving into a neighborhood where you just aren't wanted and where some elements - well - people can get awful worked up when they feel that their whole way of life and everything they've ever worked for is threatened...You just can't force people to change their hearts, son." Lindner to Walter, Mama and Beneatha

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  48. Mama says to Walter, "No . . . something has changed. You something new, boy. In my time we was worried about not being lynched . . . You ain’t satisfied or proud of nothing we done. I mean that you had a home; that we kept you out of trouble till you was grown; that you don’t have to ride to work on the back of nobody’s streetcar—You my children—but how different we done become." (74)

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  49. Mama to Walter: "Walter Lee – it makes a difference in a man when he can walk on floors that belong to him…"(92)

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  50. Mama to Ruth: "When the world gets ugly enough – a woman will do anything for her family. The part that’s already living." (75)

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  51. Walter Lee to Ruth:"Yeah. You see, this little liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand and we figured the initial investment on the place be 'bout thirty thousand, see. That be ten thousand each... Baby, don't nothing happen for you in this world 'less you pay somebody off!"(14-15)

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  52. Walter Lee to Ruth:"We one group of men tied to a race of women with small minds"(17)

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  53. Walter to Mama: "No- it was always money, Mama. We just didnt know about it." (74)

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  54. Mama to Travis: "Travis! (She is counting off with doubt) Is that the right number of zeros?

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