Directions: Answer Each Question Using Complete Sentences and Providing Details
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Raisin in the Sun Act I Scene I Classwork
Directions: Answer each question using complete sentences and providing details.
1. Describe the setting of the story. What does the interior of the Younger home tell you about the family that lives there?
2. When family members argue, the reasons may be more complex than they at first appear. What are the surface reasons for the arguments between Walter and Ruth? What do you think some of the deeper reasons for the conflict might be? And – what do Ruth and Walter say – or do – that hints at those deeper reasons?
3. What is Beneatha like? What is her “dream”? How does Walter feel about her plans?
4. Why is Mama about to get a large sum of money? How is that money beginning to cause conflict within the family?
5. Why does Mama slap Beneatha? What is Beneatha’s reaction?