Assignment #4; A Raisin in the Sun

-The play that I’m going to talk about is the one and only, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. This play tells the story of the Youngers, an African American family trying to get by in a time where racism was a bigger deal than it is today. There was one specific scene in the play that caught my attention as I was reading it. In Act II, scene iii, the Youngers are in their house, looking over at the things they got for their new house and having a good time joking around. Suddenly they get a visit from Karl Linder as they're getting all excited with their plans for the new house. Linder, who's the representative for the Clybourne Park community, tells them that they "shouldn't" move there, seeing as how they would disturb the balance of the community and potentially destroy it. He also offers to buy the house back, and even return them their money if they don't move to the new area. Later on they tell Mama what had happened, and they all end up agreeing that they shouldn’t take up Linder’s offer. They end up giving Mama a gardening set, and just when it seems like it’s going to be a good day, disaster strikes and comes crashing down on their parade. Walter finds out that he’s been scammed by one of his “friends”, and all the money they had saved up was gone. After Walter getting beaten up by Mama, the scene ends with her thinking about the money her husband left and what they were going to do now.  To me, this scene is important, or significant, because it shows how people were scared, or rather frightened of something new coming in contact or "interfering" with their already set up system. It clearly shows prejudice and racism, and that's a major part of the whole play. Although they have money to afford the house, showing that they are not poor in a sense and can have a decent living to reside in the Clybourne Park area, the community chooses to look past that and still hold their prejudice views. The dialogue that's shared among the characters is very good, showing how Ruth and Walter kept their cool but were not going to back down just because the whole community wanted them out of their land. Then all the other things happened, such as them finding out that all their money’s gone. All that went through the scene just made it seem more important and it caught my attention more than the other scenes.

Reader's Blog: Kite Runner

Pg. 19

         "Because the truth of it was, I always felt like Baba hated me a little. And why not? After all, I had killed his beloved wife, his beautiful princess, hadn't I? The least I could have done was to have had the decency to have turned out a little more like him. But I hadn't turned out like him. Not at all."

-When I first read this, I had to put the book down and just think for a minute. Amir feels like his dad hates him, since his mother died giving birth to him. Now to me, that's just a horrible thing for a little kid to think. I mean his father already doesn't talk or pay any attention to him, and now he's thinking all these things such as his father hating him. I thought it was a pretty intense and deep thing for a child to process in his mind, but when you think about it, you cant help but see why he thinks that way. I think that if I were in Amir's place, I'd be thinking the same. And I guess that's also why he tries so hard to try and get his father's attention so much. Poor kid.~

Reader's Blog; Kite Runner

Pg.  18

           " 'When you kill a man, you steal a life,' Baba said. 'You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.' "

- When you really think about it, this is some pretty deep thinking. I've never thought of it this way; that killing is a form of stealing. I've heard the whole "you steal a life when you kill" sort of thing, but never the rest. It kind of blew me away, to go in such depth with that idea. But it DOES make sense, and now I cant stop thinking about it any other way. This should be put up in a billboard or something, everyone needs to see it!

Reader's Blog; Kite Runner

Pg.6~

            "Hassan never talked about his mother, as if she'd never existed. I always wondered if he dreamed about her, about what she looked like, where she was. I wondered if he longed to meet her. Did he ache for her, the way I ached for the mother I had never met?"

-This kind of hits home with me and my personal life because I know what it feels like to grow up with only one parent (who's mostly busy all the time) I'm mostly like Hassan, not bothering to mention or verbally acknowledge the missing parental figure because I've got all I need in my mom, and I'm sure Hassan feels that way about his father. [sorry this got deep and personal]  (◡‿◡✿)