A Analysis Of The Sun By Robert Nemiroff - 1292 Words

A Raisin In the Sun by Robert Nemiroff portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, a black family’s struggle to buy a house in a white neighborhood in South Side of Chicago. They are about receive an insurance check for ten thousand that comes form the death of Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Each of the family members in this apartment has an idea with spending this money to make the family better. The patriarch of the family, Mrs. Younger, wants to buy a house to fulfill a dream she has with her husband. Walter would rather than use the money to invest in a liquor store with his friends. He believes that the investment will solve the family’s financial problems forever. Walter’s wife, Ruth, agree with Mama, however, hopes they†¦show more content†¦She knows that the family, education and society rule are so important. She is not very well educated, but she insists to maintain the personality that people are supposed to be. â€Å"Now don’t you start child. It’s to early in the morning to be talking about money. It ain’t Christian.† (41) In the morning, Ruth and Mama has a conversation in kitchen. Ruth tells Mama that Walter wants to use father’s insurance money to invest a liquor company. Mama cannot completely agree with her son. Mama complains that once upon a time freedom used to be life, but now it’s money. On the other hand, she loves her husband because he is worth to be loved. Mama wishes her sun modeled himself after his father. She never felt shame of being laundryman. She is respectably dressed as much as possible. She is a high head when in front of those white people who despise black people. â€Å"I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers—but ain’t nobody in my family never ley nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk the warth. We ain’t never been that poor. We ain’t never been that—dead inside.† (143) After she buys the house, the white people in community try to ding out the Youngers’ family. They pay more money to ask them move out. As a black woman, Mama is proud of her skin and keeps her unique personality. She refer to live harder, rather than letting people trampling on her with money. Walter Lee