The play begins with the family eagerly waiting for a check of $10,000.00 to come in the day's mail. ... One day, when Mama is out of the house, a representative of Clybourne Park, named Karl Lindner, visits the family and tries to kindly tell them that people of their kind are not welcomed in the new community. ... But, Mama's family was no longer a loving one. ... Mama's plant would once again flourish in the new home. ... Mama's family could also grow, since Ruth was pregnant. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Walter Lee: mama's son and inheritor of her husband memory. ... Beneatha: mama's daughter. ... Mama puts a stop to this by doing something sensible. ... Later the next day while mama is away on an errand, the family receives a visitor from the Clybourn Park homeowners association. ... In one day Walter has managed to lose all the money that was given to him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She exclaims, "Lena – I'll work I'll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to – but we got to move! ... " A character, who overcame this barrier to achieve their dream, was Mama. ... Mama's barrier to her dream was her financial status, and later, her race. ... Mama aint no black people living in Clybourne Park" (Hansberry 72). This shine's a light on the barrier to Mama's dream. ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After Walter leaves for work Mama enters. ... Then it is established that Mama will not give Walter the money. ... After listening to him Mama decides to give Walter some of the money. ... Scene three: It is moving day at the Youngers small apartment and everyone is in a good mood. ... Later the same day Bobo comes over and tells Walter that Willy Harris took off with the money they were going to use to get a liquor license. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Well in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Langston Hughes, several of then characters has dreams that they are aspiring to one day achieve. ... She is the daughter of MaMa and the sister to Walter. ... He is usually fighting with Ruth, MaMa, or Beneatha. ... MaMa is Walter and Beneatha's sensitive mother and the head of the Younger household. ... Both Ruth, Walter's wife, and MaMa wanted the new house so badly. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy Mama," (Hansberry 254). He tells his mama as what would make him happy. Walter as the only man of the family does not even think he has a real job as he complains to his mama that "I open and close car doors all day long. ... This made his mama say that Walter was a "disgrace to his father's memory" (Hansberry 255), since he did not make any effort to stand up and fight through the hardship. ... It is no surprise to hear Mama proudly say, "He finally came into his manhood today, kind of like rainbow after the rain" (Hansberry 2...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the Younger household, Mama always had control of the finances, in fact, she had control over everything in the house. ... When he explains to his son Travis that one day, "you name it , son and I hand you the world!"...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School