After they find their husbands they get married, have kids and then stay home to take care of the kids while their husbands went out to work. This was a normal thing to do back then, as men were seen as the breadwinner of the family, the only one who should be bringing in money to the family. Eugenia Phelan was different, she went to university and got a degree and decided to do something with it. It was hard for her at first to get the book published because of the controversial topic: the lives of black maids. She eventually gets the booked published and shares her royalties with the maids that contributed to the book, and is offered a job at a publication company in New
No; hunger [is] back there, and fear.”(31) The police find Richard and take him back, but soon afterwards his mother takes Richard and his brother to her sister’s house. Living with his aunt does not work out, and after many years of living in many different households, Richard finds a job as a ticket collector at a movie theater. Richard is determined to escape the South, so, although it is risky and does not feel right, he takes part in money-making scams and steals to make enough money to flee. As he sees it, it is “freedom or the chain-gang.”(205) He goes to Memphis and stays with a woman who immediately wants him to marry her daughter, but Richard refuses because he cannot relate to their “peasant mentality” and does not want to be confined to such a simple life. (214) Richard hungers for literature because it lets him see the world beyond his own surroundings and becomes the only way he can express himself.
Moving to Chicago with her uncle Peter on her black side of the family her uncle rejects her, her aunt harasses her stating that she is not his real niece and she is not Helga’s aunt. By Helga wanting to be around her dad side of the family it gives her right to know who her black side of the family is. Helga plan was to go beyond the limit and try to get the black and white people together and stop them from being against each other. When Helga moves to Denmark with her white relatives, everyone respected her in a well-being manner. A white artist wanted to marry her but she denied his request and said “I simply can’t imagine living forever away from colored people.” Helga wanted to be happy with whom she would marry.
When we moved to New York, she worked multiple jobs…whatever she could do to help cover her growing expenses” (47). Moore’s mother, a college graduate herself, would not let her children fail to receive a proper education. She sent them to Riverdale, an expensive, private school, so that they wouldn’t fall victim to the public school system of the Bronx. Failure was never an option in Wes’s household, and even though he had tried to rebel against this fact many times as a young child, this is ultimately what helped him to succeed in the rest of his life. There had been multiple times in his life that Wes could have fallen victim to the streets, and become just another juvenile criminal like so many around him,
It was always her dream to have her own home. Walter wanted to open up a liquor store with an untrusting friend so that they could always have money in the future after investing in the business. Ruth became pregnant from her husband Walter, and feared that, that would cause even more of a burden on the family’s money problems. Beneatha had dreams of being in the medical field and was going to use the money for her school’s tuition. I liked the plot of the
Not only did Blackwell have a governess but also a private tutors to held aide in her intellectual development. The idea to pursue medical school came to Blackwell when her friend who was dying said that in her opinion that a female physician would have made her treatments more comfortable. In 1845 Blackwell began perusing medical school but she didn’t know where it would be or how she would pay for it. So Elizabeth took a job teaching at a music academy in Asheville, NC with the goal of saving the $3000 needed for Medical School. While trying to gain entry to medical school many Physicians told her to either go to Paris or disguise herself as a man.
Her mother “Rit” then denied any more separation of her family, which set a strong example for Harriet. This was a courageous act by her mother against her master, but affected Harriet whom would apply it in a couple decades to the freedom of hundreds of slaves. Sadly many more hardships were soon to come as Harriet (“Arminta”) grew into a young lady. Abuse in the 1840’s was not an unusual occurrence, but the violence that was inflicted on her caused permanent damage to her health. The most serious injury was when she was sent to town to pick up dinner for the Masters’ family, as she was passing through she happened to encounter a runaway slave.
Homer would give Emily rides around town in his buggee so the townspeople believed that they were beginning to become a couple. Then once everyone saw Emily buying men’s toilet sets and bridal things for a man, the townspeople then began to think that they were now married. After a while, the people noticed that Homer was not in town and they thought it was just because he was going to get his home ready for Ms. Emily to move into, but in reality that was not really the case. After a few town meetings and a few complaints, people noticed that there was a foul odor that surrounded Emily’s house and the mayor did not want to say anything to her because he thought it would be wrong and disrespectful to Ms. Emily to tell her that she smelled. So the townspeople took that problem into their own hands and decided to sprinkle lye in her yard in the middle of the night when she was sleeping.
He wonders whether those dreams shrivel up “like a raisin in the sun.” in the play, every member of the Younger family has a separate self asserted individual dream, Beneatha wants to become a doctor, for example, and Walter wants to have money so that he can afford things for his family by opening up a liquor store. The Younger’s struggle to attain these dreams throughout the play, and much of their happiness and depression is directly related to
In the novel “Raisin in the Sun”, when Walter tells Mr.Linder that they wont be moving into the new house in clyborn park is when Walter lost all of his honor. When Walter gets home and Linder shows up he regains his honor by realizing that he shouldn't be kept back from moving, so in a burst Walter regains his honor and they move to clyborn park. In the novel Hansberry shows conflict although the book wish depictions and references to racism towards the Younger family, a perfect example would be when Linder Goes to the Younger house and trys to pay them not to move into clyborn park because