<p>Name: ______Class Period: ______Date: ______A Raisin in the Sun By: Lorraine Hansberry</p><p>A 3-Act Play</p><p>Background on Lorraine Hansberry & the 1950s (Attach your notes from Tuesday, May 12th) ______</p><p>Predictions about A Raisin in the Sun (5-7 sentences) ______</p><p>Characters:</p><p>Mama (Lena)</p><p>Walter 1 REV. 4.13.12 Beneatha</p><p>Ruth</p><p>Travis</p><p>George Murchison</p><p>Joseph Asagai</p><p>Carl Lindner</p><p>Mrs. Johnson</p><p>Bobo</p><p>Willy</p><p>***********************************************************************</p><p>Setting ______</p><p>Themes ______</p><p>Symbols ______2 REV. 4.13.12 Foreshadowing ______</p><p>Act I, Scene One</p><p>Summary ______</p><p>Questions </p><p>1. Describe the Youngers’ apartment.</p><p>2. Why does Walter ask Ruth what was wrong with her?</p><p>3. How much money does Walter give to Travis?</p><p>4. Why is Ruth upset when Walter gave Travis the money</p><p>5. Why does Walter say, “Damn my eggs…damn all the eggs that ever was!”?</p><p>6. Who is Beneatha? Describe Beneatha. How is she different from the rest of the family?</p><p>3 REV. 4.13.12 7. Why does Beneatha say she will not marry George?</p><p>8. How much money is Mama going to receive and why?</p><p>9. In what type of business does Walter want to invest?</p><p>10. Who are Willy and Bobo? Predictions???</p><p>11. What happens to Ruth at the end of Act I Scene One?</p><p>Act I, Scene Two</p><p>Summary ______</p><p>Questions </p><p>1. Who is Jospeh Asagai?</p><p>2. What does Ruth find out at the doctor’s office?</p><p>3. Why is Asagai’s present to Beneatha appropriate?</p><p>4. Why is Asagai’s nickname for Beneatha appropriate?</p><p>4 REV. 4.13.12 5. What does Mama say is “dangerous?”</p><p>6. Where does Ruth actually go instead of the doctor’s office?</p><p>7. Why does Mama call Walter a disgrace to his father’s memory?</p><p>Act II, Scene One</p><p>Summary ______</p><p>Questions</p><p>1. What is Beneatha’s family doing when George came in?</p><p>2. Define “assimilationist Negroes”.</p><p>3. What does Mama do with her money?</p><p>5 REV. 4.13.12 4. What is Walter’s reaction to Mama’s purchase? Ruth’s reaction?</p><p>Act II, Scene Two</p><p>Summary ______</p><p>Questions</p><p>1. How does Ruth find out Walter has not been going to work?</p><p>2. Where has Walter been going instead of work?</p><p>3. What does Mama do for Walter?</p><p>Act II, Scene Three</p><p>Summary ______</p><p>Questions</p><p>1. Who is Karl Lindner, and why does he visit the Younger’s house? What do you think about Linder’s visit?</p><p>6 REV. 4.13.12 2. What is Walter’s reaction to Lindner? </p><p>3. What present does Mama get?</p><p>4. What news does Bobo bring to Walter? Why does this matter to the plot?</p><p>Act III</p><p>Summary ______</p><p>Questions</p><p>1. Why doesn’t Beneatha want to be a doctor anymore?</p><p>2. How does Asagai define “idealists” and “realists?”</p><p>3. What does Asagai ask Beneatha to do?</p><p>4. What fault does Mama find with herself?</p><p>7 REV. 4.13.12 5. What solution does Walter have? Discuss.</p><p>6. Why doesn’t Walter take the money Lindner offered? Your thoughts?</p><p>7. Do the Youngers stay or move? What do you think about that?</p><p>Plot Diagram</p><p>Introduction ______</p><p>Rising Action ______</p><p>CLIMAX ______</p><p>FALLING ACTION ______8 REV. 4.13.12 Conclusion ______</p><p>Questions to ponder and answer:</p><p>1. What are the dreams of the main characters—Mama, Ruth, Beneatha, and Walter—and how are they deferred? ______</p><p>2. What does Mama's plant represent, and how does the symbol evolve over the course of the play? ______</p><p>3. How does the description of the Youngers' apartment contribute to the mood of the play? ______</p><p>9 REV. 4.13.12</p>