Essays Tagged: "insurance check"

Shattered Dreams, analysis of "A Raisen in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry

ld has just recently passed away and the family, or rather Mama, is expecting a ten thousand dollar insurance check which everyone has an idea of what to do with. But the most outspoken person of all ... ! Ants who can't even understand what the giant is talking about (1015)." He wants to invest Mama's insurance money into a liquor store with his friends Bobo and Willy Harris. His wife Ruth, sister Be ...

(4 pages) 170 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

“A Raisin In The Sun”

mong five members, and one bathroom. The family is in a constant feud about the ten thousand-dollar insurance check which is to be arriving in the mail shortly. Lena Younger, more widely known as mama ...

(2 pages) 1513 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

And After It Explodes?

uture for her grandson, Travis. It seems as if their dreams success is determined by a $10,000 life insurance check left by the late father. With the money, Walter could invest in the liquor store, Be ... use. She comes home one day and announces that she has bought a new house with about a third of the insurance money. She tells Travis that it will be his when he gets older. The only problem is that t ...

(9 pages) 24 0 5.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A Raisin In The Sun

n the Southside of Chicago during the 1950s. One of the first ideas uttered in the play is about an insurance check for ten thousand dollars. A struggle arises among the family members as Beneatha, Wa ...

(2 pages) 29 1 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

A Raisin In The Sun

n the Southside of Chicago during the 1950s. One of the first ideas uttered in the play is about an insurance check for ten thousand dollars. A struggle arises among the family members as Beneatha, Wa ...

(2 pages) 34 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

A Rasin In The Sun

lways talk 'bout your children's dreams… (p. 80)" A few weeks later, Mama gave the remaining insurance money of six thousand five hundred dollars to Walter, attempting to revive him. The spirit ... ns. Her husband Walter Sr. passed away (the date is never disclosed), now Lena will be receiving an insurance check of ten thousand dollars. But the only problem is that every body has their own idea ...

(3 pages) 15 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Book analysis on 'A Raisin in the Sun' How the author uses plot and characterization

nd Walter. At this particular point in their lives, Mama's husband has just died, leaving behind an insurance check (pg. 36) worth ten thousand dollars. The family has not yet decided how they are goi ... s plant as a symbol for the caring nature of Mama; a nature that fuels Mama's dreams. Mama sees the insurance check as a way to improve the futures of the members of her family, and even says that if ...

(6 pages) 35 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature