Deferring Dreams

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In the third, and final unit of our class, Drama we read the play, A Raisin In The Sun. Which takes place in the 1950s in Chicago while there was blockbusting, segregation, and discrimination. This play focuses on a black family that lives in the South Side of Chicago with many different dreams of kinds of dreams. In class, we have been learning about what is the matriarch and how it can be perceived with some people dividing gender. A matriarch is described as someone or something that strong, decision maker, and the leader. An example of a matriarch is Mama from, A Raisin In The Sun. She was the head of the house, the matriarch. For this action project, we had to choose a scene and a character from, A Raisin In The Sun and create a commentary of the acts of the character throughout the scene. We had to comment on the negative and positive qualities the character we chose demonstrated in the specific scene. At the end of the commentary, we had to give a lesson that we learned from that character and share it. the character that I chose was Walter, Mama's oldest and only son. I chose Walter because of his determined, overachieving, and caring personality towards his family. Overall, I enjoyed the whole Drama class in a whole. I found it very interesting and fun to read out loud the script with the class, and being able to combine a type of art with what we have been learning.



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Image: Friedman-Abeles, New York.Photo of a scene from the play A Raisin in the Sun. From left-Louis Gossett (George Murchison), Ruby Dee (Ruth Younger) and Sidney Poitier (Walter Younger). Everyone shown in the photo reprised their roles in the 1961 film. 1959

Music: J Wilborn.Smooth jazz music (instrumental music, piano music, nu jazz, lounge music, chillout music)

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