This post is for Freshmen only. The following assignment is due by Thursday, May 31.
- one significant quotation from A Raisin in the Sun.
- the speaker of the quotation
- to whom the quotation is being spoken
- a brief context of what is happening in the scene
- the page number
- your name (to receive credit)
Beneatha (to Asagai) "It was a child's way of seeing things-- or and idealist's" (Hansberry 133). Beneatha is informing Asagai of what her brother has done, and she is now claiming that she was mistaken with her beliefs that she once had.
ReplyDelete"Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman" (Hansberry 44). Mama says this to Ruth when they are talking about what she's going to do with the money she has.
ReplyDeleteBeneatha (Dropping to her knees)
ReplyDelete"Well – I do – all right? – thank everybody! And forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all! (Pursuing him on her knees across the floor) FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME!" (Hansberry 37).
Beneatha is speaking to Walter in this scene. Beneatha sarcastically apologizes for having dreams. In Walters eyes her dream seems kind of far-fetched. However, Beneatha is determined to follow her dreams, and prove everyone wrong. She will someday become a doctor.
1. "You tired, aint you? Tired of everything me the boy, the way we live--this beat-up hole- everything"(Hansberry 32).
ReplyDelete2. Walter
3. Ruth
4. Ruth was waking walter up and getting everyone ready for the day.
5. page 32
6. Jake Pagano
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ReplyDelete"THEN TELL ME GODDAMMIT...WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU?" (Hansberry 127). The speaker was Walter and he was speaking to Bobo. He is wanting an explanation for where his money is and why the plan is not going through. At this point he is getting frustarated with the lack of communication. p. 127
ReplyDelete"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" (Hansberry 74). Mama is talking to Walter about how things have changed and how she thinks that he cares about money too much.
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ReplyDelete"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing"(Hansberry 145).
ReplyDeleteSpoken by Mama to Beneatha.
The Family finds out that Walter lost all the money he put into the liquor store that he wanted to own. Although Mama is upset about the money, she still holds her head high and makes peace amoung the family. Mama tells Beneatha that she needs to be supportive of Walter and that she should stop crying and worry more about Walter and his sacrafices.
Ruth says, "What kind of eggs you want?" Walter replies, "Not scrambled." "(Ruth starts to scramble eggs)" (Hansberry 26). Ruth is the first speaker, and Walter is the second one; then the third one is Ruth. It is being spoken to Walter and then to Ruth. Walter just got out of bed and Ruth is makeing breakfast. This is found on page 26.
ReplyDeleteThis is important because it shows thier relationship as a married couple.
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ReplyDelete"Yes, life can be a barrel of disappointments, sometimes" (Hansberry 33). (Ruth says to Mama). Mama is explaining to Ruth how she had planned out their lives differently, such as a different house and will not spend Beneatha's medical money for college.
ReplyDelete"Now, I don't say we are perfect and there is a lot wrong in some of the things they want. But you've got to admit that a man, right or wrong, has the the right to want to have the neighborhood he lives in a certain kind of way. And at the momentthe overwhleming majority of our people out there feel that poeople get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background" (Hansberry 118). This quote is Mr. Lidner explaining in the most sensitive way he can, that he was sent to the Younger family to ask them to not move in to Clyborne Park.
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DeleteWalter: "I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy…Mama – look at me" (Hansberry 73).
ReplyDeleteWalter is explaing to Mama how he wants so many things in life. But Mama believes his desires are complex to the point that they are becoming a hazard to him. To dream big can be dangerous if one's dreams are not given a chance.
"He finally came into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain" (Hansberry 151). Mama says this to Ruth right after Walter stands up to Lindner and tells him that they're going to move to their new house no matter what the neighborhood wants them to do.
ReplyDelete"What is it you want to express?" (Lee 48).
ReplyDeleteMama is saying this to Beneatha when Beneatha asked her how people express themselves and that hinting that Beneatha wanted to express herself without having any setbacks or people making decisions for her. She wanted to be independent and make her own decisions in life.
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Hansberry sorry guys
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"He made an investment! With a man even Travis wouldn't have trusted with his most worn-out marbles" (Hansberry 132).Beneatha says this quote to Asagai. Walter had just given away the money and his sister is viewing him lower than a kid with a toy. She is very upset and angry at him.
ReplyDeleteWalter to Mama "That's sad too-- Everything is sad" (Hansberry 105). Walter has just come home after a long day of wandering around town. He hasn't been to work in days. Ruth is reminding him that his mother works all the time, and he should not put the responsibility on her to make the money.
ReplyDelete" Mama, something is happening between Walter and me. I don't know what it is-but he needs something-something I can't give him anymore" (Lee 187). Ruth is sayign this to Mama. She is talking about how unhappy Walter is with his life.
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ReplyDelete"Go ahead and laugh-but I'm not interested in being someone's little episode in America or-(With feminine vengeance)- one of them!" (Hansberry 64). Beneatha says this to Asagai right after he tells her that women only need to be loved by a man. It shows how independent Beneatha is and how she doesn't want to be like the typical American girl.
ReplyDelete"Well- you see our community is made up of people who've worked hard as the dickens for years to build up that little community"(Hansberry 117).
ReplyDeleteThis is Linder talking to Walter about the house in the white community. This shows a very racist part in the book and expresses what people thought at the time.
"Son-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"(Hansberry 143). Mama is talking to Walter about how she does not want to accept money from a white man to not move into a predominantly white neighborhood. I am very sorry about my previous quote. The quote should in fact be followed by Hansberry 74, my mistake.
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ReplyDelete"…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" (Lee 206). Mama says this quote. Her life’s dream are just for her family and not herself. She saying about Big Walter because he did the same as her.
ReplyDelete***(Hansberry 206).
Delete1."For you-I would do much more...well, that is what I came for"(Hansberry 63).
ReplyDelete2.Asagai
3.Benny
4.Asagai is talking to Benny about coming to Africa and about their relationship
5.Page 63
6.Sean McDonagh
"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" (Hansberry 119). This quotation is said by Lindner trying to explain to Walter and the rest of the Younger family that since they are colored, they are un wanted and he doesn't understand why they want to stay.
ReplyDelete"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?" (Hansberry 37). Walter to Beneatha. He accuses her of not making enough sacrifices for the family.
ReplyDelete"In fact, here's another fifty cents...Buy yourself some fruit today-or take a taxicab to school or something"
ReplyDeleteWalter is saying this to his son Travis. He wants his son to have everything a normal kid can have, and he doesn't want to restrict his childhood.
"Oh, Mama- The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-live-rich-colored-people, and the only people in the world more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people" (Hansberry 49). Beneatha is saying this. She is saying this to Mama and Ruth. they were talking about Beneatha going on dates with different people. THis is found on page (hansberry 49)
ReplyDelete" How come you always try to be so pleasant" (Hansberry 31).
ReplyDeleteWalter is saying this to ruth because he thinks Ruth is way to nice all the time. Being plesant is not wrong, its just not appreciated by some people
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"What are we all standing around here for? We ain't finished packin' yet. Bennie, you ain't packed one book" (Hansberry 124). Mama is telling everyone to stop sitting around and get to work. They are about to move so she wants to get it done faster but the bad part is that they don't get to move.
ReplyDelete1."I live the answer! (pause) In my village at home it is the exceptional man who can even read a newspaper...or who ever sees a book at all. I will go home and much of what I will have to say will seem strange to the people of my village...But I will teach and work and things will happen, slowly and swiftly. At times it will seem that nothing changes at all...and then again...the sudden dramatic events which make history leap into the future. And then quiet again. Retrogression even. Guns, murder, revolution. And I even will have moments when I wonder if the quiet was not better than all that death and hatred. But I will look about my village at the illiteracy and disease and ignorance and I will not wonder long. And perhaps...perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course..."(Steinbeck 124).
ReplyDelete2.Asaigi
3.Benny
4.Asaigi is still trying to convice Benny to come to Africa
5.124
6.Sean McDonagh
"You ain't satisfied or pround of nothing we done" (Hansberry 74).
ReplyDeleteThis is spoken by Mama to Walter.
Mama and Walter are talking about the liquor store and how impatient and how differently Walter has acted. He is trying to get the liquor store and right before the conversation he had with Mama, there was a huge fight between him and Ruth.
1. “Because this is stupid! 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-“ ( Hansberry 96 and 97)
ReplyDelete2. George is the speaker of the quotation
3. The quote is being spoken to Beneatha.
4. Beneatha and George are sitting on the couch after an evening out. Beneatha wants to talk, however, George does not want to talk to her at that very moment in time. As George begins to kiss Beneatha once again, she turns with lack of interest and resumes talking. This angers George and he begins to complain.
5. Page 96 and 97
“Who is that you inviting over here with this house looking like this? You ain’t got the pride you was born with” (Hansberry 56).
ReplyDelete2. Mama is the speaker of the quote.
3. The quote is directed to Beneatha.
4. Mama tells Beneatha she has no shame, for she invited her African friend, Asagai to a extremely messy and dirty house. Beneatha, however, tells her mother Asagai does not care, he is an “intellectual.”
1. “I don’t low no yellin’ in this house, Walter Lee, and you know it –And there ain’t going to be no investing in no liquor stores” (Hansberry 70).
ReplyDelete2. Mama is the speaker.
3. The quote is directed to Walter.
4. Walter
1."If you a son of mine, tell her! (Walter picks up his keys and his coat and walks out. She continues, bitterly) You...you are a disgrace to your father's memory"(Hansberry 75).
ReplyDelete2. Mama is talking.
3. Walter is the one receiving the yelling.
4. Mama has shared the news that Ruth is pregnant with Walter and is explaining that if he does not show love for the child, Ruth will give it up. Mama wants Walter to tell Ruth that he would like the baby, but instead he storms out.
5.Hansberry 75
"And we have decided to move into our house because my father – my father – he earned it for us brick by brick" (Hansberry 148). George says to Lindner. He remembers that they should have pride where ever they live because they earned the right to live where they want.
ReplyDelete1."sometimes you just got to know when to give up some things...and hold on to what you got" (Hansberry 140).
ReplyDelete2. Mama
3. Ruth
4. Ruth wants to move into the house even though Lidner offered them money not to move there and told them that the neighbors did not want them there. Mama tells Ruth it is time to give in.
5. 140
"Yes, child, there's a whole lot of sunlight" (Hansberry 94).
ReplyDeleteThis is Mama talking to Ruth. Mama is trying to excite Ruth about the house that Mama just bought in Clybourne Park. This shows that Mama and Ruth are very positive about the idea of moving.
"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”(Hansberry 33). George is speaking to Ruth in this scene. George is explaining his only dream, to open a liquor store. He wants to open a liquor store to show the whites that blacks can strive as business men as well.
ReplyDelete“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing….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’….”(Hansberry 145). Mama is speaking to Beneatha about George’s mix up with the money. Mama is asking Beneatha if she ever thought how George was feeling about the money. Mama is telling Beneatha to feel some affection for George because even when a family member makes mistakes the most important people to be there for someone is their family.
ReplyDeleteAsagai to (Benetha) "Then isnt there something wrong in a house where all dreams good or bad, must depend death of man" (Hansberry 135)?
ReplyDeleteAsagai and Benetha are arguing about the loss of the money and Asagai is trying to explain to Benetha that she is the opposite of independent.
Walter to (Travis) "You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction . . . a business transaction that’s going to change our lives" (Hansberry 108). Walter is explaining to Travis that he will quicly invest the money that Mama had just given to him.
ReplyDelete"You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction . . . a business transaction that’s going to change our lives. . . . That’s how come one day when you ‘bout seventeen years old I’ll come home . . . I’ll pull the car up on the driveway . . . just a plain black Chrysler, I think, with white walls—no—black tires . . . the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and he’ll say, “Good evening, Mr. Younger.” And I’ll say, “Hello, Jefferson, how are you this evening?"(Hansberry 116).
ReplyDeleteThis quote is Walter telling his son about their future. In reality, Walter is just dreaming. He is dreaming about how he wants his life to be for his family. He wants his son to have whatever he wants, and he wants his family to be rich.
"Love him? There is nothing left to love."
ReplyDeleteBeneatha is saying this to mama. She is talking about how Walter took all of the money they finally got, and invested it in a business. He ended up losing all the money, and Beneatha is upset.
"Lord have mercy, look at that poor bed. Bless his heart-he tries, don't he?" (Hansberry 40). Mama says this to Ruth about Travis's messy bed. Mama has a special thing for Travis and tries to help him with his chores. This is maybe because she has more hope for the young boy, then hope in her own children.
ReplyDelete"Crazy 'bout his children! God knows there was plenty wrong with Walter Younger--hard-headed, mean, kind of wild with women--plenty wrong with him. But he sure loved his children" (Hansberry 45). Mama tells Ruth about how Big Walter used to be, even with all of his flaws and lows he gave his all for his children.
ReplyDelete"He's no brother of mine" (Hansberry 145). Beneatha and Walter were bickering about his personal life. Beneatha says this quote to Walter.
ReplyDelete"That is not a man. That is nothing but a toothless rat" (Hansberry 144). Beneatha's reply to Walter's bickering. Beneatha says this to Walter.
ReplyDelete"I have never asked anyone around here to do anything for me!" (Hansberry 40). Beneatha says this line angrily to the family because they are focusing and discussing random topics that are unecessary.
ReplyDelete"Oh, God...(she looks up to Him) Look down here-and show me strength" (Hansberry 130). Mama's reaction to Walter losing the money. The response to Walter's grief.
ReplyDelete"THAT MONEY IS MADE OUT OF MY FATHER'S FLESH-" (Hansberry 128). Walter griefs of the family's money disappearing. He was yelling at Bobo and raging at him.
ReplyDelete"Sticks and stones may break my bones but...words will never hurt me!" (Hansberry 113). Beneatha was influencing Walter. Walter was fooling around and Beneatha was patronizing Walter.
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