12-1 A Raisin in the Sun

I don’t know about anyone else but I felt that I was watching “Good Times” With the mother and the father fussing and the small place they lived. I have to say I did enjoy it.

Walter has a lot of dreams for his family. He wants his father’s money from his death to open a liquor store. His wife Ruth wants a home but she has just found out she is pregnant. She is thinking hard about getting rid of the baby. She doesn’t want to bring another child into the place where they live which isn’t the best neighbor hood. Their home is full with Walters’s mom and his sister. His son is sleeping on the sofa in the living room and they share a bathroom with the neighbors in the building. Lena’s husband had died and she was getting a check for $10.000 from his life insurance policy. She wanted a bigger home buy everyone had their thoughts of where the money should go for. Walter the liquor store, Lena wants a home. Walter’s sister Beneatha is going to college to be a doctor and her tuition isn’t cheap.

Walters’s mom puts a down payment on a house. Mr. Lindner a man from the housing association comes to tell the family they don’t want black people in the community. They are afraid that because they are black they will have trouble in the community. They tell the family they will pay them not to move. The family is very unhappy the welcoming committee isn’t very welcoming at all. Walter isn’t happy with his mom decision his mom has made. His mother feels bad and she gives him what is left. He is to put his sister money in the bank for college and use the other as head of the house. He invests the money with a man named Willy he steals the money and never returned. Walter and his friends were going in together and get a liquor licenses and open a store. But Willy didn’t come back with the licenses and took the money. Walter, after being upset with the loss of the money is getting a plan to get the money back. He calls the man from the home association to come back over. Mr. Lindner arrives thinking that they are going to accept his offer of the money to not move into the white neighbor hood. But Walter stuns them all he doesn’t take the money and tells the family they are moving. The man leaves and they tell the movers to load up and they move into the house that Walters mom had bought for them. Mom finally thinks Walter has become a man.