A Raisin in the Sun Introduction

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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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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What is Mama’s motive for buying a house in the all-white community of Clybourne Park?

• She wants to obtain the best home for the least amount of money.

• She wants to integrate the neighborhood.

• She wants to prove she is the head of the family.

• She wants to prove that she is not an old-fashioned black woman.

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“Once upon a time freedom used to be life ..."

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Asagai

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... we all tied up in a race of people that don't know how to do nothing but moan, pray and have babies!

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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I always thought it was the one concrete thing in the world that a human being could do. Fix up the sick, you know - and make them whole again. This was truly being God ...

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Ruth

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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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Sometimes it is hard to let the future begin

• Mama

• Walter

• Beneatha

• Asagai

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