Going Away Again

At the urging of my mother and a few others, I've decided to take a very impromptu road trip out west again.  For those of you who follow me on FB, you'll see a more detailed description of the trip as I take it.  For those of you here, I can only tell you that it'll be July by the time I get back...chock full of more photos and stories to tell, I'm sure.

So, yes! That's my update.  Hardly worth reading, but it's here all the same.

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Book Review: A Raisin in the Sun Written by: Lorraine Hansberry - Lorraine Hansberry based the title of her play on Langston Hughes's famous poem about a dream being constantly deferred. Case and point are the fictional Youngers who are about as nonfictional as you can get. They are a struggling family of African Americans desperately in need of something better than what life, or perhaps a better word would be society, has dealt them.

Love is a constant in the Younger home even if it seems to be in hiding for most of the play. That threatening of love dying spurs the play forward as each obstacle beats the Youngers down into what would seem to be unyielding submission. However, throughout the play Hansberry cleverly intercedes with hopeful new dreams and metaphors such as the sun, children, and Big Walter's presence equating to hope. As the Youngers wait on the check to come in the mail of Big Walter's life long struggle to gain some money, the Youngers retain hope. But as their dreams are constantly stepped on hope becomes the last thing to die.

This play not only talks about African American rights, but women's rights as well. The author touches on it briefly throughout the play to give a reminder that not only are African Americans being subjugated against, but women as well. It makes Black women the bottom of the proverbial totem pole. Not-so-surprisingly, then, she makes her female characters extraordinarily strong in this play. It also comments on ideas such as returning to Africa as a 'cure' to the desperate situation African American's must face in America. Asagai, a Nigerian man, is very secure in his identity and suggests it, but it is only briefly considered, giving a hint as to where Hansberry stood on that particular subject.

Many other smaller, but no less important, nuances of the text include lost identity that is captured well in Benethea. She is divided into categories as to how an African American should look, talk, or otherwise conduct herself.

As Walter, our male whirlwind of the story, struggles on his big ideas and dreams the women tend to focus on smaller, more attainable battles. While he focuses on money, they focus on love. A balance has to be reached and defiance of the 'system' needs to be established or else the threat of society will crush the Youngers and all that they represent.  

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"I've been trying to justify you,
In the end I just defy you.

To those who understand,
I extend my hand.
To the doubtful I demand,
Take me as I am.
Not under your command,
I know where I stand.
I won't change to fit your plan,
Take me as I am."
- "As I Am" - Dream Theater