Sunday, May 15, 2011

Beneatha


From what we have read in "A Raisin in The Sun" we have come familiar with Beneatha, Ruth, Walter, Mamma, and Travis. Travis is Walter and Ruths young boy that is being sheltered form the harsh reality of money struggles  and tough times. Walter and Beneathas mother is named Lena but everyone calls her Mamma. Beneatha wants to be a doctor and Walter wants to own a liquor store. Mamma has money and the whole family is curious as to what Mamma will do with the money. Beneatha is youthful and invisible or so she thinks. She is beautiful. She is pretty headstrong. She knows what she wants and she aims to get it. The one she is not sure about is love. She is interested in Joseph Asagai and George Murchison. Joseph is her love interest from school and he has come back from Nigeria. From all this I feel like I show the most interest in Beneatha because she is complex and outspoken. So far she has not really let much get in her way. She is highly feminist. She is upset and feels outnumbered because the rest of her family does not feel like she can succeed in the doctor world and workforce. You can she her start to stand up for herself in scene one. She wastes no time trying to get what she wants. I am really really excited to see what she has to say in the scenes to come in the future.

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