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Monday, December 7, 2009
Hansberry’s Language
Although Hansberry uses the vernacular, which may sound simplistic or confusing, her use of language is extremely powerful and clear. Share a line or two that you find particularly powerful, profound, funny, or just interesting.
One part of Raisin in the Sun that I found very powerful was when Walter was talking to Mama after she told him what she spent her money on. Mama was asking Walter to tell her that she did the right thing so she could feel that she made the right chioce for her family. Walter says to Mama things like, what do I have to tell you,you did the right thing for and you the head of this house, you make the decision. He knew this would hurt Mama very bad, and it did. But, Walter was also upset that Mama didn't spend the money on his dreams and he also, tells her she was killing his dreams and she was always the one who told her kids to follow their dreams.
Throughout the story, there have been several different lines that caught my attention. This family shares powerful feelings with each other, and the stress with the money has only added to the family's drama. "If you a son of mine, tell her! You...are a disgrace to your father's memory. Someone get me my hat!" Mama said this while talking to Walter Lee about Ruth being pregnant, and her wanting to get an abortion. Walter walks out, and this was probably one of Mama's most emotional comments. I found this comment to be very interesting, and i don't understand why Walter couldn't say anything.
Lorraine Hansberry uses the vernacular in "A Raisin in the Sun" which makes her writing even more powerful. One line I think is extremely powerful and important to the story is when Mama is talking to Walter about money. "The past few years I been watching it happen to you. You get all nervous acting and kind of wild in the eyes-" (Hansberry, page 72). Her use of the vernacular helps the reader create an image of what Walter looks like when he thinks about money and starts to go crazy over it. This sentence also helps the reader understand how hard money was to have back then and how it made people crazy sometimes.
At one part of the story, A Raisin in the sun, in which I find significantly powerful would be the time when Walter’s financial partner, Bobo, had visited the Younger’s household and had conversed with Walter. This line intentionally seemed significant and powerful to the story’s conflict. When Walter had become angry and saddened at the news that Willy had stolen the $6500 (equivalent to $65,000) that he entrusted him with for a liquor store investment he powerfully stated “That Money is Made of my father’s flesh.” I think this line is powerful and significant because it states that all the time Walter had felt angry at the family for not using the insurance money for his own needs of investment and when he actually did invest the money that he was given by the mother he ruined the family financially. Walter reacted angrily when the mother had spent the money on the house, but through his own actions he lost all the money for trying to invest the money and give it to a stranger to invest in the Liquor store. At the end, it was Walter’s fault and decision that had caused the loss of the money. The money that was earned through the father’s hard work was all for nothing after Walter lost the money. I think this line is powerful because it also symbolizes all that was left of the father, or the last property that was of the father. When the money had been stolen, it could have also meant the memory and life of the previous neighborhood and the legacy of the father to disappear with it.
In a Raisin in the sun I believe that the language hansberry used was to give the reader a detail sense of what it was like back then. I aslo believe it helped alot when the author portrayed asagai. If the author and asaigai sounded the same then the contrast would have no point. Throughout the whole book there is one line that really gave me a true sense of the families conditions and what mama was thinkning. "I rather be living in Buckingham palace" (pg. 37). This I believe shows more of Ruth's feeling towards her life and how she dreams of being in that find of situation. She is explaining this to walter to try and make him understand what she is going through.
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One part of Raisin in the Sun that I found very powerful was when Walter was talking to Mama after she told him what she spent her money on. Mama was asking Walter to tell her that she did the right thing so she could feel that she made the right chioce for her family. Walter says to Mama things like, what do I have to tell you,you did the right thing for and you the head of this house, you make the decision. He knew this would hurt Mama very bad, and it did. But, Walter was also upset that Mama didn't spend the money on his dreams and he also, tells her she was killing his dreams and she was always the one who told her kids to follow their dreams.
Throughout the story, there have been several different lines that caught my attention. This family shares powerful feelings with each other, and the stress with the money has only added to the family's drama. "If you a son of mine, tell her! You...are a disgrace to your father's memory. Someone get me my hat!" Mama said this while talking to Walter Lee about Ruth being pregnant, and her wanting to get an abortion. Walter walks out, and this was probably one of Mama's most emotional comments. I found this comment to be very interesting, and i don't understand why Walter couldn't say anything.
Lorraine Hansberry uses the vernacular in "A Raisin in the Sun" which makes her writing even more powerful. One line I think is extremely powerful and important to the story is when Mama is talking to Walter about money. "The past few years I been watching it happen to you. You get all nervous acting and kind of wild in the eyes-" (Hansberry, page 72). Her use of the vernacular helps the reader create an image of what Walter looks like when he thinks about money and starts to go crazy over it. This sentence also helps the reader understand how hard money was to have back then and how it made people crazy sometimes.
At one part of the story, A Raisin in the sun, in which I find significantly powerful would be the time when Walter’s financial partner, Bobo, had visited the Younger’s household and had conversed with Walter. This line intentionally seemed significant and powerful to the story’s conflict. When Walter had become angry and saddened at the news that Willy had stolen the $6500 (equivalent to $65,000) that he entrusted him with for a liquor store investment he powerfully stated “That Money is Made of my father’s flesh.” I think this line is powerful and significant because it states that all the time Walter had felt angry at the family for not using the insurance money for his own needs of investment and when he actually did invest the money that he was given by the mother he ruined the family financially. Walter reacted angrily when the mother had spent the money on the house, but through his own actions he lost all the money for trying to invest the money and give it to a stranger to invest in the Liquor store. At the end, it was Walter’s fault and decision that had caused the loss of the money. The money that was earned through the father’s hard work was all for nothing after Walter lost the money. I think this line is powerful because it also symbolizes all that was left of the father, or the last property that was of the father. When the money had been stolen, it could have also meant the memory and life of the previous neighborhood and the legacy of the father to disappear with it.
In a Raisin in the sun I believe that the language hansberry used was to give the reader a detail sense of what it was like back then. I aslo believe it helped alot when the author portrayed asagai. If the author and asaigai sounded the same then the contrast would have no point. Throughout the whole book there is one line that really gave me a true sense of the families conditions and what mama was thinkning. "I rather be living in Buckingham palace" (pg. 37).
This I believe shows more of Ruth's feeling towards her life and how she dreams of being in that find of situation. She is explaining this to walter to try and make him understand what she is going through.
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