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Ruth is tough and hard working

"From the ironing board like someone disinterested and old." 39

Ruth has been working laboriously for a very long which has caused her to act in these ways.

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Ruth doesn't have much patience for Travis when it comes to money.

"The boy gives her an exasperated look for her lack of understanding, and eats grudgingly." 31

Whenever she's in a bad mood, it doesn't seem like she cares about her son, but she really does.

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I personally think Ruth is a strong woman that is often not understanded due to how she acts around her family. She is very straight forwards, and even if her family isn't her blood, she still cares for them as if they were. She has sacrificed a lot in her life for the sake of her husband and son, but still tries thinking of what she has even if she complains from time to time. Since she is also older, she isn't used to modern ideas and thoughts.

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This painting relates to her because it goes perfectly with the conduction she's in. Walter, Ruth's husband is an alcoholic that often goes out and gets drunk while Ruth stays at home tired and exhausted. This painting puts all that out there for anyone reading Raisin In The Sun. The bottles of alcohol everywhere and the husband relaxed sleeping shows what Walters doing in the play as for the woman working hard next to him shows the situation Ruth is in.

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Woman Work- Maya Angelou

I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The cane to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
'Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You're all that I can call my own.

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Woman Work- Maya Angelou Explanation (Part 2)

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Woman Work- Maya Angelou Explanation (Part 2)

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This poem relates to her a lot because it shows the overall struggles of a mother. Ruth, for example would make a great example of that. She does most of the work in the house and throughout most of the play, she's ironing clothes or getting food. Even when having a caring, but offly selfish husband, she still manages to go through her irritation and sometimes confronts him, telling him with reality of certain situations they're in. That is why I think she fits very well with this poem.

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Call it love and devotion
Call it the mom's adoration (foundation)
A special bond of creation, hah
For all the single mums out there
Going through frustration
Clean Bandit, Sean-Da-Paul, Anne-marie, sing, make them hear

She works the night, by the water
She's gonna stress, so far away from her father's daughter
She just wants a life for her baby
All on her own, no one will come
She's got to save him (daily struggle)

She tells him "ooh love"
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
I'm gonna give you all of my love
Nobody matters like you (stay up there, stay up there)
She tells him "your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life (straight)
You're gonna grow and have a good life
I'm gonna do what I've got to do" (stay up there, stay up there)

So, rockabye baby, rockabye
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don't you cry
Somebody's got you
Rockabye baby, rockabye
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don't you cry
Rockabye, no (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) (oh)
Rockabye, yeah, yeah (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye)

Single mom what you doing out there?
Facing the hard life without no fear
Just see and know that you really care
'Cause any obstacle come you well prepared
And no mamma you never shed tear
'Cause you haffi set things year after year
And you give the youth love beyond compare
You find the school fee and the bus fare
Hmmmm more when paps disappear
In a wrong bar can't find him nowhere
Steadily you work flow, heavily you know so you nah stop
No time no time fi a jeer

Now she gotta a six year old
Trying to keep him warm
Trying to keep all the cold
When he looks her in the eyes
He don't know he's safe when she says

"Ooh love"
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
I'm gonna give you all of my love
Nobody matters like you

So, rockabye baby, rockabye
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don't you cry
Somebody's got you
Rockabye baby, rockabye
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don't you cry (Bidda-bang-bang-bang, alright then)
Rockabye, no (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) (Oh)
Rockabye, yeah (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye) (yeah)

Rockabye don't bother cry
Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky, yo
Rockabye don't bother cry
Angels around you, just joy your eye

Now she gotta a six year old
Trying to keep him warm
Trying to keep all the cold
When he looks her in the eyes
He don't know he's safe when she says

She tells him "ooh love"
No one's ever gonna hurt you, love
I'm gonna give you all of my love
Nobody matters like you (stay up there, stay up there)
She tells him "your life ain't gonna be nothing like my life (straight)
You're gonna grow and have a good life
I'm gonna do what I've got to do" (yeah)

So, rockabye baby, rockabye (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye)
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don't you cry (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye)
Somebody's got you
Rockabye baby, rockabye (Rockabye-rocka-rocka-rocka-bye)
I'm gonna rock you
Rockabye baby, don't you cry (Bidda-bang-bang-bang, alright then)
Rockabye

Rockabye don't bother cry
Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky, yo (Rockabye!)
Rockabye don't bother cry (yeah yeah)
Angels around you, just joy your eye (Rockabye!)

Rockabye don't bother cry
Lift up your head, lift it up to the sky, yo (Rockabye!)
Rockabye don't bother cry
Angels around you, just joy your eye

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As Ruth is a hard working mom, this one reminded me of the child she is carrying rather than Travis. After realising they are moving, I feel like this what she would think in her heart, knowing she can have her baby now. She has struggled a lot in live, even from her one husband and I feel like all she really has now with her is the child inside of her. Feeling the baby's heartbeat, it's movements, and it's presence overall must have a huge impact on her well being. To me, she did seem a little more peaceful after realising she was pregnant, even after thinking about abortion.

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I way I view the story is that family is very important and you can overcome a lot of struggles and difficulties with if you're together.

“Lena—I’ll work…I’ll work twenty hours a day in all the kitchens in Chicago…I’ll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to—but we got to MOVE! We got to get OUT OF HERE!!” P. 140

This quote shows just how impatient and uncomfortable they were in their living conditions.
After mom got hold of her fortune due to her husband death, they managed to buy a pretty good house. Ruth can look back and not get the abortion after all with the new house as there was conflict before for her meeting with the doctor. There are multiple themes in this play, but I personally think this one stands out the most. Family is very important to our lives, and even if we struggle the most, ease will eventually.