They get the money but don’t know what to do with the money, that is except for Walter. Walter is wanting to spend the money on a investment, like in the novel, to buy a liquor store for fortune, to help finance his family. Beneatha had plans to use some of the money for school, to become a doctor. Although everyone had differences for the money, Mama had other plans
Walters dream is to invest in a liquor store with the money his mother is acquiring from the insurance company. Walter also wants to have the money so that he can afford things for his family. However; the rest
Poor Forever can be found in the Bloomberg BusinessWeek on page 50 – 55. It was published in the July 9 2012 issue. I also referenced the speech of Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers Alan B. Krueger The Rise and Consequences of Inequality in the United States that was presented on January 12, 2012. Lazarus 29 year old mother single mother of two is determined to escape a life of poverty. She has decided to go to college, and to move in a better neighbor.
Financially I think Jennifer and her husband are doing great. I believe if Jennifer would maybe cut her hours at work that she could start a family together. I also feel this would help Jennifer and her stress level. This is a huge decision that Jennifer and her husband would have to make together, but I don’t believe with Jennifer’s schedule that they would be able to throw a baby in the middle of Jennifer’s life. If Jennifer’s husband would want to cut his hours that would be great, but something has to give at this point.
In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan married wealthy Tom Buchanan instead of then poor Jay Gatsby because to her, it was more important that she come into a family with money than live a life where she would be truly in love. She decided that although she felt strongly for Gatsby, she needed to maintain her wealth in order to be happy in life. As a teenager ready to pick a college, it is important to think whether it is more important to attend the school with a better reputation, one that claims it can ensure economic fortitude, or go to the school at which I would be the most happy. In deciding whether my success in life should be measured by the amount of money I earn or how happy I am every single
Maya Angelou is an insecure black girl in the American South during the 1930s but then moves over to California during the 1940s. Maya’s parents divorce when she is only three years old and then Maya and her older brother, Bailey, have to live with their grandmother, Annie Henderson, in Stamps, Arkansas. Annie, who they call Momma, runs the only store in the black section of Stamps and becomes the moral figure in Maya’s childhood. Later on the children’s father comes to Stamps when Maya is 8 and takes her and her brother to St. Louis to see their mother. Since it is the early 1900’s Maya has to deal with practically no rules since she is black and slavery was abolished about 30 years ago.
Everyone’s dream is to be wealthy and successful, but that shouldn’t persuade a person to be selfish towards others. You never know when you’re going to need someone, so it’s always good to be nice on your way up. When making a sticking to a goal, it’s good to be sure that goal will still be in good business years down the road. What’s in demand now might not be later. Walter Lee Younger experienced all of these details within the book.
“Son-I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers- but ain’t nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk this earth. We ain’t never been that poor.” (Hansberry, 96) In the previous passage, Walter had upset Mama because he wanted to be bribed to move out of an entirely white neighborhood, however, Lena watched her family experience discrimination and now, post
Sarah Winkler Dramatic Lit. Hour 6 9/20/12 A Raisin in the Sun [Paper] A Raisin in the Sun Throughout the book A Raisin in the Sun, the search for the American Dream is ever present. The Younger family lives the life of every African American living in the big city during the 1960’s; constantly feeling the lack of acceptance from the white community, the majority. Each member of the family, in their own way, chases after their own American Dream of being bigger and better than the standards set before them by their ancestors. When Mama says, “Well, I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home,” she displays her lifelong wishes for her future (Hansberry 41).
A Raisin in the Sun essay All throughout Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, each character dreams of a better life, but each of their visions of the American Dream differs significantly. Mama, the head of the family, dreams of purchasing her family a bigger house, regardless of its location, in order to fulfill the dream that she originally had with her now deceased husband; She wants to have a garden and a yard for Travis, her lovable grandson, to play in. Her will is demonstrated when she says “We wasn’t planning on living here more than a year… but Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had ‘bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a garden in the back” (44-45). On the contrary, Walter, Mama’s son, believes