Devices
The plant is an example of this device and it represents the family and their dreams.
What is a symbol?
Beneatha's dream to become a doctor begins when she sees how the doctors are able to help this boy.
Who is Rufus?
Walter is frustrated by this job because he feels like he is forced into the job with no other options.
What is being a chauffeur or driver?
Mama is suspicious when Ruth returns from the doctor because Ruth refers to the doctor as this.
What is a woman?
Where the play takes place (region and city).
What is the Black Belt or Southside in Chicago?
When Ruth scolds Travis because of his "slubborn" ways she utilizes this device.
What is a portmanteau?
Beneatha disagrees with her about her belief in God and uses an allusion to this in order to get back at her mother.
What is the Bible?
When Walter gets frustrated with Ruth telling him to eat these in the opening scene, we see their relationship suffers from a lack of communication and understanding.
What are eggs?
Mama reveals this to Walter about Ruth's plans for the baby.
What is the fact that she is considering having an abortion?
Where Walter claims he has visited because he doesn't want George to look down on him.
What is New York?
The poem placed at the opening of the play serves as the _________________ for the play.
What is an epigraph?
This character forces Beneatha to consider if she straightens her hair because of beauty standards in Hollywood.
Who is Joseph Asagai?
Walter wants to invest in the liquor store in order to be able to do this.
What is provide for his family?
When Mama does this, it gives Ruth hope about the new baby.
What is put a down payment on the house in Clybourne Park?
The name of the place where Mama buys a house.
What is Clybourne Park?
When George says, "Goodnight, Prometheus" to Walter he uses an _________________ to mythology.
What is an allusion?
Asagai brings Beneatha these two gifts to support her discovery of her ancestry and culture.
What are Nigerian records and robes?
Ruth offers Walter this when he is drunk, which emphasizes her desire to help him and her motherly nature.
What is hot milk?
The name of the baby Mama reveals she lost, causing immense grief for her and Big Walter.
What is Claude?
The country Asagai is from.
What is Nigeria?
The poem which asks, "What happens to a dream deferred?" was written by this author.
Who is Langston Hughes?
Where George and Beneatha go on their date after he tells her to change her clothes.
What is the theater?
What Walter says when Mama first reveals Ruth is considering an abortion.
What is say that Ruth would never do that?
When Mama says she donates money at the church to help those in Africa, Beneatha suggests they need more help to save them from this or these.
What is colonialism or the British and the French?
When a piece of mortar was thrown through the window and just missed a young girl's head. (Describe the context. For example: What happened when...?)
What happened when Carl Hansberry (or Lorraine Hansberry's father) moved his family to a so-called white neighborhood?