Student’s Name
Instructor’s Name
Class Name
Due Date
Psychological and emotional effects of racism
The play A Raisin Sun is based on racial discrimination, the struggle between the white and the black the white regarded the blacks as untouchables as they did not want to live together with them. Racism in the play causes psychological and emotional torture. Beneatha has a dream of becoming a doctor and struggles to pose her identity as a well-educated Black woman. “Mama tells Beneatha that she will be a doctor someday, “God willing.” Beneatha “dryly” replies to Mama that “God hasn’t got a thing to do with it,” later says, “God is just one idea that I don’t accept. I get tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort”. Beneatha loses hope in Christianity and God because of the white people’s dominance. Walter fights depression as he cannot achieve his dream, and he is forced to work as a chauffeur because he is black.
Mama wants the apartment in which they all live, always be neat and polished. When Mama buys a house in an entirely white neighborhood, her children are worried that it would put their lives at risk. Mama explains, “Then houses they put up for colored in the areas way out all seem to cost twice as much as other houses. I did the best I could “. The houses of blacks are located in segregated communities, this promoted enemity between the whites and blacks. Karl Lindner says, “Most of the trouble exists because people just don’t sit down and talk to each other.” Lindner and his committee do not want the black people in their neighborhood. His statement is replied by Ruth with anger, “You say that again mister” while nodding her head, which shows she had been hurt emotionally by these words. After suing to remain in the neighborhood, a stone is thrown through a window, barely missing Hansberry’s head. They are described as “howling mobs.” It is sad when a neighbor attacks another, and it spreads fear