Walter's wife, Travis's mother, and Beneatha Younger's sister-in-law.
Who is Ruth
100
What symbolizes the family's hopes and dreams of living past poverty and racism?
What is Mama's plant?
100
The liquor store, the $10,000 check and Mama's plant show the theme of...
What is the American Dream?
100
The way the Youngers' family speaks seems to be a little different from how we speak today. And example would be the use of the word "ain't" instead of "don't." This is a clear-cut example of...
What is dialect?
100
Name the place of the tenement that the Younger family had lived in for most of the book.
What is Chicago?
200
He is the future of the Younger family, has a "job" in carrying grocery bags, and has no bedroom.
Who is Travis?
200
Examples of this that describe the book are serious, realistic, objective, and depressing.
What is tone?
200
the factor that most affects the fact that it is hard for the Younger's to achieve their dreams?
What is race?
200
The general tone or dialect that the author uses to create this play would be...
What is style?
200
What era did this book take in?
What is the mid-19th century?
300
She wanted to study to become a doctor, she dated Asagai and he wanted her to go to Africa with him.
Who is Beneatha?
300
An example of this is, "This is just what is wrong with colored women in this world... Don't understand about building their men up and making 'em feel like they somebody."
What is theme?
300
What theme is shown when the family rejects Beneatha's dream of becoming a doctor?
What is Anti-feminism?
300
The author uses this when making the white folks talk and interact with the Youngers' family. This form of diction shows how the white Caucasians were formally educated.
What is Formal Diction?
300
What is controversial about the place where the Youngers move to?
What is an all white neighborhood?
400
He stole Walter's money from the idea of a liquor store, He used to be Walter's best friends, and his name is symbolic of himself.
Who is Bobo?
400
The title of this book was based off of a poem written by Langston Hughes, titled "Harlem: (A Dream Differed)." An example of this is found in this direct quote:
"Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?"
What is imagery?
400
Throughout the entire book, the Youngers' family goes through disputes, arguments, and many incidents of racism. However, through all of the problems at hand, they were able to manage to get through this because they had...
What is family?
400
During the first act of the play, the author narrates how the tenement that the Youngers' live in is a slum and is very messy. This form of diction can be depicted by at least one of the five senses.
What is Concrete Diction?
400
The place in which the Youngers have lived for most of their lives
What is the apartment?
500
Who said:
"No . . . something has changed. You something new, boy. In my time we was worried about not being lynched . . . You ain’t satisfied or proud of nothing we done. I mean that you had a home; that we kept you out of trouble till you was grown; that you don’t have to ride to work on the back of nobody’s streetcar—You my children—but how different we done become."
Who is Mama?
500
The title, "The Raisin in the Sun" is a form of BLANK because the family is being "dried up" and tossed around underneath the warm sun of America.
What is Symbolism
500
During the beginning of the book, Beneatha's hair was described as being "long and Caucasian-like." However, soon as Asagai makes his appearance, she then cuts her hair and is described as being a "radical afro." This shows the theme of....
What is heritage?
500
Towards the end of the play, Walter and Ruth are described as being "lost in their youth" or "merely daydreaming" when Walter asks Ruth to dance with him. This is a form of diction that CANNOT be depicted by one of the five senses (but must be "felt" from the heart or brain).
What is Abstract Diction?
500
The room which the Youngers share with their neighbors