A Raisin in the Sun Movie

What does Mama’s old plant symbolize?

• hope for the future

• frustration with ghetto life

• despair    

• preoccupation with the past

What is Mama’s immediate reaction to the news of the loss of the money?

• She sobs hysterically.

• She begins unpacking.

• She goes into a trance-like state.

• She hits Walter.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the climax of the play?

•  Mama puts a down payment on the house.

• Walter turns down Lindner’s offer.

• Ruth finds out she’s pregnant.

• Beneatha decides to move to Africa. 

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

All of the following are conflicts in the play except:

• Walter and Beneatha disagree on how the money should be spent.

•  Walter wants to leave when he gets frustrated and Mama tries to stop him.

• Asagai and Murchison argue over Beneatha.

• Ruth and Walter disagree on whether or not Travis can have money for school

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

“Here I am a giant – surrounded by ants! Ants who can’t even understand what it is the giant is talking about.”

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"It's how you can be sure the world's most liberated women are not liberated at all. You all talk about it too much."

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Asagai

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing."

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Asagai

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"That money is made out of my father's flesh ..."

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Asagai

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

There simply is no blasted God - there is only man and it is he who makes miracles.

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Sometimes it is hard to let the future begin

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Asagai

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3