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Essay / Raisin in the Sun - 591
Keeping your dream is exceptionally difficult, especially in this world of racism and discrimination. In this world, you either fight for your rights or you fight for your life. And to keep life together, you need to have motivation, in other words a dream. In the book "A Raisin in the Sun" there are constant battles over whose dream is worth mom's insurance money. Each character in the book has an American dream that they want to achieve. But the answer to achieving their “American Dream” is insurance money. Although the younger family lives in difficult conditions, they each have a dream that they will not give up despite having to work for the rest of their lives. Beneatha is the most educated of the younger family and she too has a dream of one day becoming a doctor. Her lover, George, thinks the same thing as Walter. They both believe that women are made only for cooking and cleaning, but Beneatha thinks differently. She wants to change things and show that women, black women, are not just made to cook and clean, they are made to be...