Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Final Exam Review - A Raisin in the Sun

This entry is for both periods 6 and 8 students.


In the comments section, record an entry the contains the following components:
  1. one significant quotation from A Raisin in the Sun
  2. the speaker of the quotation
  3. to whom the quotation is being spoken
  4. your name (to receive credit)
There are a few stipulations. First, no repeats. Second, first come, first served. Third, the more significant and important your quotation, the more helpful this study guide will become.

This assignment is due by the start of class Friday.

65 comments:

  1. mama-"Oh—So now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really do change . . ."
    act 1 scene 2

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  2. Anthony IvankovichMay 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM

    " Oh—So now it’s life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really do change... " Mama is saying this to Walter.

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  3. Anthony IvankovichMay 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM

    " Then isn’t there something wrong in a house—in a world—where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man? " Asagai is saying this to Beneatha.

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  4. "There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing." Mama says this to Beneatha.

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  5. "That's it. There you are. Man says to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs." Walter says this while complaining to Ruth.

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  6. "I know it and I don't mind it sometimes...I want you to cut it out, see-The moody stuff, I mean. I don't like it. You're a nice-looking girl...all over. That's all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere." George says this to Beneatha.

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  7. WALTER
    "…Just tell me where you want to go to school and you’ll go. Just tell me, what it is you want to be – and you’ll be it….Whatever you want to be – Yessir! (He holds his arms open for TRAVIS) You just name it, son…(TRAVISleaps into them) and I hand you the world!"

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  8. Still, we can see that at some time, a time probably no longer remembered by the family (except perhaps for MAMA), the furnishings of this room were actually selected with care and love and even hope – and brought tothis apartment and arranged with taste and pride.

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  9. "I guess you better not waist your time with no fools." Mama says this to Beneatha.

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  10. "DAMN MY EGGS- DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS!" Walter says to Ruth

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  11. "Well, I do...all right? I thank everybody! And forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all! FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME, FORGIVE ME!" Beneatha says this to Walter.

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  12. "You making something inside me cry, son. Some awful pain inside" Mama to Walter

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  13. "Weariness has, in fact, won in this room. Everything has been polished, washed, sat on, used, scrubbed too often. All pretenses but living itself have long since vanished from the very atmosphere of this room." Narrator to Reader/Audience.

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  14. "I don’t want nothing but for you to stop acting holy ‘round here. Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you–why can’t you do something for the family??" Walter to Beneatha.

    i need extra credit...

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  15. "No... something has changed. You something new, boy. In my time we was worried about not being lynched and getting to the North if we could and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity too... Now here come you and Beneatha- talking 'bout thing we ain't never even thought about hardly, me and your daddy. You ain't satisfied or proud of nothing we done."
    Audience: Walter
    Speaker: Mama

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  16. "Walter, don't you get it?! When a cat runs off with your money, he don't leave no roadmap!
    From:Bennie
    To:Walter

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  17. "Now... you taking it all too seriously. You just got strong-willed children and it takes a strong woman like you to keep 'em in hand."
    Audience: Mama
    Speaker: Ruth

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  18. "It's how you can be sure that the world's most liberated women are not liberated at all. You all talk about it too much!"
    Audience: Beneatha
    Speaker: Asagai

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  19. " Course I don't want to make it sound fancier than it is... It's just a plain little old house-but it's made good and solid-and it will be ours. Walter Lee-it makes a difference in a man when he can walk on floors that belong to him..."

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  20. "And we have decided to move into our house because my father-my father- he earned it for us brick by brick. We don't want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that's all we got to say about that. We don't want your money."
    Speaker Walter
    Listener Lindner

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  21. "That money is made out of My father's flesh!"
    Speaker Walter
    Audience Bobo Mama Beneatha

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  22. "Mama, something is happening between Walter and me. I don't know what it is - but he needs something - something I can't give him any more. He needs this chance, Lena."
    Act 1, Scene 1, pg. 25
    Speaker: Ruth
    Audience: Mama

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  23. "I seen...him...night after night...come in...and look at that rug...and then look at me...the red showing in his eyes...the veins moving in his head...I seen him grow thin and old before he was forty...working and working and working like somebody's old horse...killing himself...and you - you give it all away in a day..."
    Act 2, Scene 3, pg. 117
    Speaker: Mama
    Audience: Walter

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  24. "What you nedd me to say you done right for? You the head of this family. You run our lives like you want to. It was your money and you did what you wanted with it.n So what you need for me to say it was all right for? So you butchered up a dream of mine-you-who always talking 'bout your children's dreams..." Walter say to Mama

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  25. "my dear, young creature of the new world-i do not mean across the city-i mean across the ocean: home-to Africa." Asagai said this to Beneatha

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  26. "We have decided to move into our house because my father—my father—he earned it for us brick by brick. We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that’s all we got to say about that. We don’t want your money." Walter says this to Mr. Lidner

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  27. "Oh honey-you know I'm praying to God every day that don't nothing like that happen! but you have to think of life like it is-and these here chicage peckerwoodsis some baaaad peckerwoods.
    Audience: Mama
    Speaker: Mrs. Johnson

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  28. Chelsea JerominskiMay 26, 2010 at 6:07 PM

    "There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing." -Mama to Beneatha

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  29. Chelsea JerominskiMay 26, 2010 at 6:08 PM

    "You my children—but how different we done become." -Mama to Walter

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  30. Bad? Say anything bad to him? No-I told him he was a sweet boy and full of dreams and everything is strictly peachy keen. Audience:Ruth. Speaker: beneatha

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  31. "You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction . . . a business transaction that’s going to change our lives. . . . That’s how come one day when you ‘bout seventeen years old I’ll come home . . . I’ll pull the car up on the driveway . . . just a plain black Chrysler, I think, with white walls—no—black tires . . . the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and he’ll say, “Good evening, Mr. Younger.” And I’ll say, “Hello, Jefferson, how are you this evening?” And I’ll go inside and Ruth will come downstairs and meet me at the door and we’ll kiss each other and she’ll take my arm and we’ll go up to your room to see you sitting on the floor with the catalogues of all the great schools in America around you. . . . All the great schools in the world! And—and I’ll say, all right son—it’s your seventeenth birthday, what is it you’ve decided? . . . Just tell me, what it is you want to be—and you’ll be it. . . . Whatever you want to be—Yessir! You just name it, son . . . and I hand you the world!"
    Walter says this to Travis

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  32. "Oh, a little tired. You know them steps can get you after a day's work. You all have a nice time tonight?" Mama says this to George and Beneatha

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  33. "We also have the category of what the association calls-uh-special community problems..." Lidner says this to George

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  34. "…You came up to me and you said… "Mr. ... Asagai – I want very much to talk with you. About Africa. You see, Mr.Asagai, I am looking for my identity!""
    Asagai to Beneatha

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  35. "I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy…Mama – look at me."
    Walter to Mama

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  36. "I don't care what teacher say. I ain't got it. Eat your breakfast, Travis"
    Ruth to Travis

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  37. "Will somebody please tell me what assimila-who-ever means". Said by Ruth to George.

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  38. "It ain't that nobody expects you to get on your knees and say thank you, Brother; thank you, Ruth; thank you, Mama--and thank you, Travis for wearing the same pair of shoes for two semesters--" Walter says to Beneatha

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  39. "See there, that just goes to show you what women understand about the world. Baby, don't nothin happenfor you in this world 'less you pay sombody off!" ~ Walter

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  40. Walter to Beneatha:

    "Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy 'bout messing 'round sick people- then got to a nurse like other women- or just get married and be quite..." (page 38)

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  41. Ruth to mama:

    "No- he[Walter] don't half try at all 'cause he know you going to come along behind him and fix everything. That's just how come he don't know how to do nothing right now- you do spoiled that boy so."(page 40)

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  42. "Honey, life don’t have to be like this. I mean sometimes people can do things so that things are better. You remember how we used to talk when Travis was born,about the way we were going to live, the kind of house. Well, it’s all starting to slip away from us."

    Ruth to Walter

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  43. "We feel that most of the trouble in this world, when you come right down to it - most of the trouble exists because people don't sit down and talk to each other." Lindner to Walter

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  44. "My husband always said being any kind of servant wasn't a fit thing for a man to have to be." Mama to Mrs. Johnson

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  45. Mama to Walter

    "You ain’t satisfied or proud of nothing [your dad and I] done."

    scene one act two

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  46. "Yes-death done come here in this house. Done come walking in on the lips of my children" (Hansberry 144).
    Mama says this initially just out loud but eventually turns to Beneatha as she starts to come down on Walter.
    Ben Kraus

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  47. "Our association is prepared, through the collective effort of our people, to buy the house from you at a financial gain to your family."
    said by Lindner (white persons neighborhood representitive)
    to the family (Walter in particular)

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  48. Then isn’t there something wrong in a house—in a world—where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?

    asagai speaking to beneatha

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  49. Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you—why can’t you do something for the family?

    lena to walter lee

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  50. "And my father- My father almost beat a man to death once because this man called him a bad name or something, you know what I mean?"
    sender: Walter
    receiver: Karl
    happens near the end of the book (3rd act) when Karl stops by the house to talk to Walter; Walter changes his mind about the house and wants to move in.

    "He finally come into his manhood today, didn’t he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain…"
    sender: Mama
    receiver: Ruth
    She says this after Walter stands up to Karl and it is first time in the book anyway that Walter truly acted like a man.

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  51. "Girl, I do believe you are the first person in the history of the entire human race to successfully brainwash yourself." says Walter to Beneatha. Act 2, Scene 3, pg. 98

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  52. "It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concern that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities."
    page 118
    Mr. Lindner to Beneatha, Ruth and Walter

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  53. "You hear some of these Negroes 'round here talking 'bout how they don't where they ain't wanted and all that-but not me, honey!"
    page 100
    Mrs. Johnson to Mama

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  54. Son – I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers – but ain’t nobody in my family never let nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk the earth. We ain’t never been that poor. We ain’t never been that – dead inside.-mama

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  55. Listen to me, now. I say I been wrong, son. That I been doing to you whatthe rest of the world been doing to you. - Mama to Walter

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  56. "Let’s face it, baby, your heritage is nothing ... but a bunch of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass huts!"
    This was said by George to Beneatha.

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  57. "When the world gets ugly enough-a woman will do anything for her family. The part that's already living",(page 75).

    Mama said this to Walter.

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  58. "Well-we are dead now. All the talk about dreams and sunlight that goes on in this house. It's all dead now",(page 143).

    Beneatha said this to Walter.

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  59. " There ain't so much between us, Walter...Not when you come to me and try to talk to me. Try to be with me... a little even.

    Ruth says this to Walter
    page 88

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  60. If you a son of mine, tell her! You... you are a disgrace to your father's memory. Somebody get me my hat!
    Mama to Walter

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  61. Sometimes it’s like I can see the future... stretched out in front of me. Just plain as day. The future, Mama. Hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me. A big, looming blank space, full of nothing. Just waiting for me. But it don’t have to be.
    Walter to Mama

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  62. " Well- son, Im' waiting to hear you say something.... I'm waiting to hear how you be your father's son. Be the man he was.... Your wife say she going to destroy your child. And I'm waiting to hear you talk like him and say we a people ho give children life, not who destroys them."
    Mamma to Walter pg 75

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  63. "That when it is all over-you come home with me-"
    Asagai to Beneatha

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  64. "Between and man and a woman there need be only one kind of feeling." - Asagai says that to Beneatha

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  65. "What you ain't never understood is that i ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you." - Mama says that to Walter

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