A Raisin In The Sun By Langston Hughes Analysis

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What happens to a deferred dream? Well it does not simply disappear, it evolves. That dream endures, change, get stronger but never dies. A deferred dream always stays and it’s waiting to be realized someday. When that dream does come true it’s never the same thing it was at the beginning. It has change with time; it start changing with new things we want. So if your dream isn’t realized don’t let it die, there is always a way to make it come true. But it is not about any dream we can have, this desire has to do with goals, hopes and better thing we want for the future. Don’t be scared of your dreams. There will be always a good moment to achieve them. There is a poem that talks about deferred dreams. “What happens to a dream deferred?” is a poem of Langston Hughes. It is a poem about the …show more content…
Struggle to gain middle-class acceptance. Mama, the oldest member of the family was waiting for a 10,000 dollars endurance check from her death husband. With that big quantity of money she wanted to buy a new house in a better neighborhood for her family but her son Walter thought that buying a bar would be a better idea so there is where the main conflict began. Walter’s sister and wife wanted to convince him that the idea of a new house was a better option and that if he bought the bar he will only been thinking about himself and not in everybody else. Finally he decided to buy the bar without telling anyone about it and he spend 6,000 dollars in it giving it all the money to a “friend” that stalled the money and never came back. Walter, feeling bad about the situation told mama everything that happened and she told him that she would buy the house with the remaining silver. The family moved to a white neighborhood and there a man told Walter that if he and his family returned to their old tenement he would give them a lot of money but he refused and began a new lifestyle with his
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