April 30th 2018

In class we went over again what happened in the last few pages of A Raisin in The Sun and went over good and bad fortunes. We found out that Mama split the 10,000 between the house, Walter and Beneatha. We then made a chart of the bad fortune that could happen with the money and good fortune that could occur from everyone getting a piece of the money. We said that the good fortune walter could get from the money is he could invest in the liquor store and gain even more money and he could quit drinking. However the bad fortune was he would lose all his money and would go into debt, he would worsen his drinking and his health would go bad. For Beneatha the good fortune that she would become a doctor and find her identity. The bad fortune however was that she was a black female in that time period and she also might drop out of college and let all that money go to waste. Finally for the house the good fortune was it was a safe neighborhood and the family lives happily ever after in the house. On the other hand, they could be harassed by the KKK and they don't have enough money for the house. We then went on to read a couple pages but did not read a lot since we had a lock down. We find out that Lindner  was racist and did not have the Young family's safety in mind.  This shows how most people don't have your best interest in mid and that people are usually selfish. It also shows that if you make an investment it has to be realistic and fool-proof. If the Young family lose these three investments they do not have a back up plan which is very dangerous. Black people back then did not have as good of a chance of succeeding in the world as much as white people had, especially men.