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A THEME of A Raisin In The Sun (Choose from the list)

A QUOTE that supports that theme (Choose from the list)

A paragraph explanation of how the quote supports the theme. (5 sentences)

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Explanation of why the lyrics relate to the character (5 sentences. Cite at least one line)

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I am unwritten, can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window (window, window, window)
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it (taste it, taste it, taste it)

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

Your lips
It is
It is
On your lips
On your lips

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window (window, window, window)
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Your lips
Your lips
It is
It is
Your lips
For you
Your lips
The rest is still unwritten

Unwritten, unwritten
The rest is still unwritten

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The poem relates to Mama because it talks about how she has seen her husband be worked down to the bone, and she doesn't want to see any of her kids like that. She has been through too much to not have an impact on her future.

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She watched

as every evening the edge of setting horizons

cut his hope of a better tomorrow in half,

and spilled

the teasing remainders of daylight upon tall buildings

they could never reach.

Their dreams.

As old as the dust of their city

unattainable

as those white fenced neighborhoods

promising their children

a world of peace

that better tomorrow.

An unseen resilience

kept their small apartment

together even though her husbands disappointment

grew to be so rancorous it no longer phased her,

but shattered the glass of their photos.

She watched him,

as he rocked his life away on his chair

and his heart grew calloused and bitter.

Neither shaken nor distraught,

she witnessed him wither away

like a raisin in the sun

denied from the harvest.

Mama Younger has seen too much

to let her children

end up the same.

@2017 Afroetry Works

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She watched as every evening the edge of setting horizons cut his hope of a better tomorrow in half, and spilled the teasing remainders of daylight upon tall buildings they could never reach. Their dreams. As old as the dust of their city unattainable as those white fenced neighborhoods promising their children a world of peace that better tomorrow.

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A piece of ART that relates to your character

A paragraph explanation relating the art to your character (5 sentences)

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She is a woman in her sixties, strong and full bodied. She has a certain grace and beauty that is undiscovered unless you can see it. I feel bad for Mama because she has always tried to put her kids before herself, but the amount of money made it hard.

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Keeping hope

"She crosses through the room, goes to the window, opens it, and brings in a feeble little plant growing..." (39)

She keeps hope for keeping a little tiny plant around as her "garden" because she has yet to get a backyard, so in the future it will remind her or struggle.

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Real

"Ten thousand dollars they give you. Ten thousand dollars." (69)

She is real for saying this because her husband is really priceless and they shouldn't be able to give her a certain amount.