The play A Raisin in the Sun starts off with the house Travis is in is full of negativity, the mother wakes him up on the couch yelling, “I say hurry up, Travis! You ain’t the only person in the world got to use a bathroom!” (Hansberry 921). The attitude a parent has towards a child will play a large role in how the child reacts to the parent’s request. While Travis seems like a pretty good child, many times in this case children will not react in the same way. In Jeanne Ellis Ormrod’s book Educational Pyschology: Developing Learners, she states “The behaviors of parents and other caregivers influence children’s personalities and behaviors almost the from beginning” (62). Talking to a child in this way may cause them to think it is okay to
