Beneatha and Africa Beneatha is a woman who refuses to be a spineless stay-at-home wife who just cooks and cleans while her husband goes off to work. Her purpose in life is to go to medical school and be a doctor, but it is highly unwelcome in her family, with Asagi, and very much with Walter. It seems to everyone else in the play that she only wants to be a doctor, but she really knows that she needs to be a doctor in order to make her life have purpose and be worth something. Of course, everyone in her family thinks that she is out of her mind when she tells them all that she wants to be a doctor; they think that she has forgotten who she really is, but she knows good and well that she is Beneatha Younger, and she deserves the chance to become a doctor and be successful. Beneatha has to push against everyone in her family to become a doctor, and that just isn’t fair.
There were only a few key points that really changed their paths. Author of the book’s mother wanted to make sure that her children had grown up to the best they could possibly be. Though Wes did not have a father, his mother tried to fill that role. She did so by moving their family to upstate New York, and putting him in a military school because their old neighborhood had become violent and drug infested. Also Wes had been getting into trouble, and his mother knew that needed to change.
Her brother doesn’t want her to become a doctor, he tells her to be a nurse or get married and shut up. Walter- “who the hell told you, you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy’ bout messing’ round with sick people- then go be a nurse like other women- or just get married and be quiet…” (A Raisin in the Sun pg. 20) Walter is so fix aided on the money; therefore, he disrespects all of his family. The black men of his time era wouldn’t think that black women would amount to anything of being successful in their life.
ACT III- Beneatha and Asagai “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.” Asagai comes to help the Younger family pack and finds Beneatha questioning her choice of becoming a doctor. She no longer believes that she can help people. Instead of feeling idealistic about demanding equality for African-Americans, she now broods about basic human misery. Never-ending human misery demoralizes her, and she no longer sees a reason to fight against it.
These problems force her to grow up and take on responsibilities that she should not have to deal with at her age. A literal element from, A Separate Peace, that can prove the quote true would be irony. In the book, Phineas states that he and Gene are going to sign up for the army together and that he trusts Gene with his life. However, later on when Phineas and Gene were on the limb waiting for Leper, Gene shook the branch purposefully so Phineas would fall. Therefore, Gene was the one who ended up jeopardizing Phineas’ life even more.
In the film Meet the Parents, Greg Focker is put to the ultimate test to prove his love for Pam Byrnes and earn her fathers approval for her hand in marriage. In what initially seems to be a comical adventure, Jay Roach expresses the message of family values and a father’s difficulty in letting go of his
I know at least one Chemistry professor who went to such a primary school and he had to walk a very long distance every single day (he taught me at university). In Africa, a good education is very highly valued but very difficult to achieve beyond the many obstacles. Most of these kids would give anything to get the quality of education that is offered to inner city black American kids! And yet even Africans, especially when they do get very educated, start talking about “preserving our own culture” and avoiding copying Western culture, which is also a common view among the middle-class black Americans who do like education. Ironically, they learn this nonsense from Western universities or
The last character I feel is important in this story is Nanny Crawford, she is Janie’s grandmother. Mrs. Crawford raised Janie, she worked as a slave and the things she experienced made her a strong black woman. She wanted Janie to be responsible and understand everything she needed to know about money, love, and just being responsible. Janie didn’t’ like the way her grandmother tried to raise her because she independent and wanted to love who she wanted to love. She didn’t want to marry because of money but because she loved him.
They had three children together back home in Nigeria but they weren’t happy with the life they were living so therefore they started to save up money in order to travel abroad to start a fresh and better life not just for themselves but also for their children. After four years of saving, the day they waited for was here and they were all set and excited. Everything changed when they arrived to London because there were few arguments, Yemi said she doesn’t like it here in England and she then later moved to Ireland with her kids leaving her husband who refused to follow her to Ireland. They both lived separate lives for approximately 11years but he did come to visit the odd times. Adapting to a new environment wasn’t easy for her at all as English wasn’t her first language and she also felt sick at times due to the change of the weather.
It was more astounding to her that Ms. Miller was of the African American race herself but did not like people of that race. Oprah is a person that is very admirable in my mind. She is a women that came from almost nothing and turned her life around to become a very successful women. Another topic in this video that caught my attention was the Great Migration. From the four people in this video, Oprah Winfrey, T.D.