In a Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park there were a batch of things that ran about parallel with both books. Of class. first would be the house that Lena bought moved into at the terminal of A Raisin in the Sun but even deeper than that. Both books touched some societal topics that at the clip of A Raisin in the Sun’s release were seldom mentioned by an Afro-american particularly a female Afro-american. The topic that grabbed my attending was that every chief character had one thing in common ; they all had dreams. Each of their dreams in one manner or another were dreams of wealth.
Now. of class everyone has different values so their thoughts of wealth varied as good. The battle for wealth in A Raisin in the Sun was the Younger’s chase of the “American Dream” . Walter decided he would hold to take it upon himself to back up this household. He wanted the money that Lena got from the passing of her hubby to purchase into a concern program that he thought would work out absolutely. As anyone would be. Lena was hesitating about giving any money to Walter one time she found out he was be aftering to travel into a concern trade with Bobo and Willy and even more since it was traveling towards a spirits shop.
As the narrative progressed Walter was given a portion of the money. but his greed moved him to take Beneatha’s portion every bit good. Walter’s thirst for stuff wealth pushed him to lose the money he was trusted with. Material wealth seems to be what a batch people chase after today. In the heads of many it’s all about who has the nicest material and who has the most money. Walter saw that as his opportunity for the American dream. From the clip A Raisin in the Sun starts Walter is kicking about what could be.
Talking about holding to portion a bathroom so to what he could’ve made if he got in the dry cleansing concern with Willy. The further A Raisin in the Sun goes Walter begins to allow his thirst for money get in the manner of his household. Walter begins to a great extent imbibing and even Acts of the Apostless uncaring at the fact of his married woman looking into acquiring an abortion. That’s the same manner that even people today let their thirst for wealth ( stuff ) overcome their whole lives. In the first act of Clybourne Park a wholly different set of values put away a new thought of the American dream.
Karl Linder is a character that made visual aspects in the terminal of A Raisin in the Sun and continued as the same character in the first act of Clybourne Park. Karl’s thought of the perfect American dream was more of holding a wealth of societal position. His wealth largely revolves around populating in a perfect community. To him a perfect community was a neighborhood free of African-Americans. and in the terminal of A Raisin in the Sun and the first act of Clybourne Park he is seeking anything he can to do certain it stays that manner.
At the terminal of A Raisin in the Sun he enters the Younger’s flat seeking to convert them to take a trade giving them more money than the new house is really deserving. but in the head of the Youngers that is seting their pride at hazard. Karl so says. “… . I want you to believe me when I tell you that race bias merely doesn’t enter into it. It is a affair of the people of Clybourne Park believing. justly or wrongly. as I say. that for the felicity of all concerned that our Negro households are happier when they live in their ain communities. 2. 3. 65 ) . In my head. he isn’t assisting his cause of them believing he is racist by stating this. Clybourne Park opens up with that offer holding been turned down and Karl gross outing out seeking to happen a manner to maintain the merchandising of the house from traveling through. All the manner from desiring to acquire the loan denied to stating the Younger’s the existent ground the house was for sale so cheap. Karl tries to state that the “colored” household traveling in would impact the fact that their vicinity is a progressive vicinity.
Implying that the African-Americans would impact the progressivity of the vicinity. but he tries to salvage himself by adverting that he and the community embrace different ways of thought and uses Gelman’s food market shop as an illustration since they hired the Wheeler male child who was a small off. Karl so says. “…fitting into a community is truly what it all comes down to” ; connoting one time once more that he has the Younger’s best involvement in head. He keeps this traveling by stating the African-Americans wouldn’t have “their” things in the food market shop.
For some ground Karl’s chief concern is holding a “perfect white” vicinity. but that shows how skewed some people’s positions were at that clip and it’s sad to believe that some people still haven’t made any advancement on that topic to this twenty-four hours. Act II begins in a wholly different clip for the vicinity 50 old ages from where Act I left off. The vicinity is now bulk Afro-american and the house the Younger’s moved into is worn down. The book explains how the fanciness of the house has been replaced by cheaper add-ons and the wooden mantle topographic point has visually been painted over many times.
In this act the name Lena pops up once more being that it is 50 old ages subsequently this is merely a descendent of the Lena Younger from A Raisin in the Sun. Lena explains that her great aunt was one of the first African-Americans to travel into Clybourne Park. She values things a batch otherwise than Karl or Walter. Lena’s wealth prevarications within herself ( could be considered an emotional/spiritual wealth ) . Lena’s chief end has nil to make with how much she makes or who may travel in. but merely that she will remain where her great aunt foremost moved into Clybourne Park.
Lena believes she can’t travel out because she is a portion of one of the first Afro-american households to populate in Clybourne Park. The more she explains the alterations the more people like Steve think she’s racialist. I wouldn’t needfully say she’s racialist. Just proud of where she came from and desiring to maintain it the manner it has become. So between all three of these characters they portion the fact that they have dreams of wealth and how to accomplish the American dream. but have different thoughts of what that precisely means.
Whether it is material wealth. societal wealth. or emotional/spiritual wealth ; all three of them wanted one thing and that was highest value of their alone thoughts of wealth. Material wealth covering with material things or the money to acquire the things you want. Just how Walter wanted the large house. the high paying occupation. and the apparels the people with the good occupations got. Social wealth being an fanciful perfect society. like how Karl felt about the vicinity and how he thought the vicinity would be a better topographic point without an Afro-american presence.
Then emotional/spiritual wealth trades with being able to accomplish the American dream or be “wealthy” all within oneself. Lena felt this manner when adverting how no affair how hapless she is. she wouldn’t travel off from this house because her grandaunt worked so difficult to acquire her household to this vicinity. One could do an statement that none of the three characters are comparable at all. but they all have dreams ; dreams that one twenty-four hours they will make the American dream and will go affluent.
The contrasting variable is that the characters’ values and thoughts of wealth are wholly different. but one must recognize that Karl and Walter were both based in a clip that in ways was a batch different from now. So things that didn’t seem really acceptable. the manner Karl acted towards African-Americans. was something a batch more common at that clip. In decision. everyone including you and me have dreams and believe in a certain wealth. The lone inquiry is what is our wealth?
