Response to A Raisin in the Sun

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Response to A Raisin in the Sun

The play "A Raisin in the Sun" was an amazing play. I loved how detailed it was, which helped give a good idea of how the stetting looked.  I really liked this play because I like how it shows the struggle a colored family had to go through to be even the slightest bit close to how well the whites had it. It really captures how the little kids do not understand the reality of the harsh world yet. for example, when Travis asked his mother repeatedly for fifty cents for school but she has to keep telling him they do not have it. And to make the child even more confused, Walter Lee comes out and gives him double the amount he was asking for! I also really liked how Beneatha's character was very bold in how she lived life and acted. She is a colored twenty year old who wants to, and is on her way to, becoming a doctor. I liked how the play showed her dedication to following her dreams despite what everyone else in the play thought. Just because it was uncommon for a colored girl to become a doctor back then but she was not about to let that influence her dreams. I also really liked how her character also broke other uncommon acts for a young colored woman, in part of the play she speaks her own mind to Mama about how she does not believe in God. Which back then although they had the right to freedom of speech, colored girls usually were to afraid to speak their mind like Beneatha did.
This plays overall theme was to show how the black community had to struggle and learn to manage their money so carefully. This play portrayed the emotions of Mama who through the hardest of times had to stay strong for her family. Showing the way of how to spend money and trusting Walter Lee with it all, she was strong when he ruined it. In the end they still moved in to their new house, although unwanted in the all white community, they did it.