Motifs in ARitS: Hour 5 by Lisa Lewis https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22 Please post an example of a motif AND post the quote to support it with page number. en-us 2021-05-20 17:20:45 UTC 2021-05-24 18:06:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Dreams- Shelby https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545008297 Walter dreams of being self-employed. "talking about things sitting there turning deals worth millions of dollars... sometimes I see guys that dont look much older than me" (Act 1, Scene II).]]> 2021-05-20 17:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545008297 Peter-Money https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545049155 Walter is talking to mama about how he could use the money to invest “Do you know what this money could mean for me
Do you know what this money could do for us”
58:29]]> 2021-05-20 18:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545049155 Money Tommy https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545052462 “Why do you have to talk so much about money?” “Because it’s life Mama.” Walter is talking about what money can do for them and why it is so important that they get the money from the insurance company and use it to start a buisness.]]> 2021-05-20 18:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545052462 Owen Robinson https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545055454 In the passage Walter is wanting to buy a store but it is his Mother’s money. The entire story they are all excited to get the money because they have never been financially stable. Here Walter says “Mama do you know what this money means to me.” Walter thinks this money is very important to him. ]]> 2021-05-20 18:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545055454 021223 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545056605 Linder the representative for the Clybourne Park community and he came to the house to basically say that he doesn’t think it’s a good idea for the family to live in the community. Linder: “It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that our Nero families are happier when they live in their own communities.” Pg.118]]> 2021-05-20 18:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545056605 Brock https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545057802 Mama: Mama is making a painful observation to her kids: The only houses that are available to most Black people are expensive and yet inconveniently located far away from the important areas of town “Them houses they put up for colored in them areas way out all seem to cost twice as much as other houses. I did the best I could.” (Act II, scene i)]]> 2021-05-20 18:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545057802 Mia Dreams https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545058752 Mama wants her family to chase their dreams but acknowledges the inequality in opportunity. “Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while” (Act 1, scene 1)]]> 2021-05-20 18:08:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545058752 Reilly Gender https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545062776 “That’s it. There you are. Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs. Man say: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And a woman will say: Eat your eggs and go to work. Man say: I got to change my life, I’m choking to death, baby! And his woman say – Your eggs is getting cold!” (1.1.83) Walter is saying how women hold their men back.]]> 2021-05-20 18:08:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545062776 Josh https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545063321
“Walter: You wouldn’t understand yet, son, but your daddy’s gonna make a transaction . . . a business transaction that’s going to change our lives. . . . That’s how come one day when you ‘bout seventeen years old I’ll come home . . . I’ll pull the car up on the driveway . . . just a plain black Chrysler, I think, with white walls—no—black tires . . . the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and he’ll say, ‘Good evening, Mr. Younger.’ And I’ll say, ‘Hello, Jefferson, how are you this evening?’ And I’ll go inside and Ruth will come downstairs and meet me at the door and we’ll kiss each other and she’ll take my arm and we’ll go up to your room to see you sitting on the floor with the catalogues of all the great schools in America around you. . . . All the great schools in the world! And—and I’ll say, all right son—it’s your seventeenth birthday, what is it you’ve decided? . . . Just tell me, what it is you want to be—and you’ll be it. . . . Whatever you want to be—Yessir! You just name it, son . . . and I hand you the world!” This shows how people often let money come between family. Money can come and go but family will always be with you. Family and relationships are the most important thing when going through a hard ship. ]]> 2021-05-20 18:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545063321 Grace Holz https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545064431 "It’s just that every American girl I have known has said that to me. White – black – in this you are all the same. And the same speech, too!…It’s how you can be sure that the world’s most liberated women are not liberated at all. You all talk about it too much! " (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 115), asagai is saying if women were as free as they say they are it wouldn’t be an issue anymore. To beneatha women still have a long way to go and she wants to be outside of the society’s expectations.]]> 2021-05-20 18:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545064431 Elle 0060642 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545066974 Walter thinks his sisters dream to be a doctor is too big for a women. “Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy ’bout messing ’round with sick people—then go be a nurse like other women—or just get married and be
quiet” (pg. 41)
]]> 2021-05-20 18:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545066974 Emily - Gender https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545067427 Walter tries to force the stereotype of women only being nurses onto Beneatha.
“If you so crazy ‘bout messing ‘round with sick people—then go be a nurse like other women—or just get married and be quiet. (41)”]]> 2021-05-20 18:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545067427 Matthew https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545068516 Mama has just received the life insurance check from her deceased husband. The family hasn’t had this much money before, so it comes to them as a rush, and through Ruth’s impatience of Mama opening the envelope, Mama states. “Now don’t act silly...We ain’t never been no people to act silly ‘bout no money”(Act 1, Scene 2, page 71 pdf).

]]> 2021-05-20 18:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545068516 Dreams https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545069305 Beneatha has a dream of becoming a doctor which fades over time and she becomes discouraged. ]]> 2021-05-20 18:10:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545069305 Anton https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545073056 Mama made the purchase to keep the family together. “I just seen my family falling apart today … just falling to pieces in front of my eyes … We couldn’t of gone on like we was today.” Act 2 scene 1]]> 2021-05-20 18:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545073056 Katrina https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545073189 Walter dreams of getting a business of his own and Ruth dreams of making a better life for their family. 
“So you would rather be Mr. Arnold than be his chauffeur. So I would rather be living in the Buckingham Palace” (pg. 37). ]]> 2021-05-20 18:11:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545073189 0002391 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545076687 Mama talks about how hard it is for colored people to purchase houses, and how the world try’s to make it so much harder for them to live a good and easy life. “Them houses they put up for colored in them areas way out all seem to cost twice as much as other houses. I did the best I could.”(Act II, scene i)]]> 2021-05-20 18:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545076687 Nora, Dreams https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545076999 Beneatha dreams of becoming a doctor which fades over time and she becomes discouraged. This quote shows he’d reflecting on how she felt about her dream in the past. Beneatha: “No- I wanted to cure. It used to be so important to me. I wanted to cure. It used to matter. I used to care.” Act lll page 133]]> 2021-05-20 18:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545076999 Money Jack https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545079895 “Money is everything” Walter is talking about how he only cares about money and thinks it’s everything in life.]]> 2021-05-20 18:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545079895 Callie https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545080167 Linder is trying to convince the Youngers that the reason he doesn't want the family to move into the association has nothing to do with race by saying  "I want you to believe me when I tell you that race prejudice simply doesn’t enter into it. It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities"(Act II, scene iii)]]> 2021-05-20 18:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545080167 017824 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545084457 George: (Nastily) Let’s face it, baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass huts! (Act II, scene i)]]> 2021-05-20 18:14:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545084457 Millie: money https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545086757 Mama is saying how money isn’t everything and that his obsession with getting the check is a bit much. She’s explaining that their family wasn’t so focused on money as he is and they got along just fine.“Son – I come from five generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers – but ain’t nobody in my family never let nobody pay ‘em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn’t fit to walk the earth. We ain’t never been that poor. (Raising her eyes and looking at him) We ain’t never been that – dead inside.” (Act III, scene i)]]> 2021-05-20 18:14:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545086757 Hope https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545087552 The example that I’m using is when mama Lena gets the check that she receives the check from her husbands death and she has decided to spend it on a house instead of Walters dream of owning a bartender. In this scene Walter blows up at mama and disrespectful yells at her saying all the terrible things . He shows how there family has no respect for each other. “Matter with me? Ain’t nothing the matter with me!” (Page 75)]]> 2021-05-20 18:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545087552 017824 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545091470 It shows segregation because there is hurt in these peoples lives and they are struggling with the segregation ]]> 2021-05-20 18:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545091470 Housing 007900 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545108499 Travis sleeps on the living room couch on a make down bed that he makes at night, because there is no where else to sleep. “It is morning dark in the living room, Travis is asleep on the make-down bed at center” (Hansberry 26).]]> 2021-05-20 18:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1545108499 Lucas https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1548353986 Walter is complaining about how Beneatha is doing so many things while not appreciating Ruth ans his work. He says “I’m interested in you. Something wrong with that? Ain’t many girls who decide”(40) and Beneatha knows he is going to say be a doctor.]]> 2021-05-21 16:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1548353986 Hope https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554769068 In this example is when the man that is going to give them money to not move into the house that they were gonna move into. But Walter finds his pride again and Denys his offer. “Well what I meant is we come from people who have a lot of pride. I mean we are proud people”pg 148 He shows that in the end his family might struggle through a lot but they have pride and unity to persevere through anything.]]> 2021-05-24 17:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554769068 Housing 0060642 https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554769721 After Walter told Lindner that his family was going to move into the neighborhood. Ruth- “Well, for God sake—if the moving men are here—LETS GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!” (Pg. 149)]]> 2021-05-24 17:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554769721 Tommy Lambert https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554771021 “People get allonge better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, when they share a common background” page 117-118
This quote shows the racism and segregation of the times because they are not wanted in the neighborhood because they are different and people are fearful of some sort of retaliation because of them moving into the area.]]> 2021-05-24 17:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554771021 Matthew https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554771748 Before, Mama is thinking about not moving to the new house, but Ruth who dreads their current living situation begs Mama, in which she states, “But we got to MOVE! We got to get OUT OF HERE!!”
(Hansberry Act 3).]]> 2021-05-24 17:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554771748 Grace Holz https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554772749 ASAGAI: “But did you earn it? Would you have had it at all if your father had not died?” (Act 3). Beneatha is sad and angry and ranting to asagai about how her school money is gone, when in fact she didn’t even work for it and it was going to be given to her. It’s not her money.

]]> 2021-05-24 17:56:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554772749 Josh https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554773447 “I just seen my family falling apart today … just falling to pieces in front of my eyes … We couldn’t of gone on like we was today.” Act 2 scene 1. This shows that mamas will to keep the family together instead of fighting is stronger then their current situation.]]> 2021-05-24 17:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554773447 Katrina https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554773914 Their family is discriminated against because the white people in the neighborhood do not want them to move in and Mr.Linder is even trying to convince them to give up their house before moving into it. 
"We's ain't gwine come out deh and dirty up yo' white folks neighborhood..." (pg. 144). ]]> 2021-05-24 17:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554773914 Owen Robinson https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554781536 In the story, Walter goes psycho for a while. After he loses the money he just feels terrible for his own family. He decided to contact the homeowners society and take the money they put together. Beneatha says “He’s no brother of mine.” Mama gives her a good understanding that family sticks together through all decisions and even though she may be mad, it shouldn’t matter.]]> 2021-05-24 17:58:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554781536 Emily - Money https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554782094 Walter says that money is life, where as Mama knows that life isn’t about money, but freedom.
MAMA: “Son—how come you talk so much ’bout money?”
WALTER (With immense passion): “Because it is life, Mama!”
MAMA (Quietly): “Oh—“(Very quietly) “So now it’s life. Money
is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life—now it’s money. I guess the world really do change …”

]]> 2021-05-24 17:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554782094 ty https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554783127 2021-05-24 17:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554783127 Anton- housing https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554786008 “We have decided to move into our house because my father-my father-he earned it for us brick by brick” (149). Walter realized that buying the house would be the right thing to do for the family and that it would keep them together.]]> 2021-05-24 17:59:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554786008 Peter-Dreams https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554787768 My quote is from Walter talking about moving into their new house and he says how hard his father worked to build this how ‘brick by brick’ and they get their dream of a new house

“And I have decided to move into our new house because my father-my father-he earned it for us brick by brick.”(148)]]> 2021-05-24 17:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554787768 Mia-Dreams https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554788774 Walter talks about his dreams to have a classic family life that may white families have. He says to his son,   That’s how come one day when you ‘bout seventeen years old I’ll come home . . . I’ll pull the car up on the driveway . . . just a plain black Chrysler, I think, with white walls—no—black tires . . . the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and he’ll say, “Good evening, Mr. Younger.” ]]> 2021-05-24 18:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554788774 Lucas https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554790724 As again comes over to help pack, but discoveries Beneatha is very upset and learns about what happened to the money. He tries to comfort her and asks, “Then isn’t there something wrong in a house—in a world— where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?”(134).]]> 2021-05-24 18:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554790724 Millie https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554796712 “For a women it should be enough” this quote is showing Asagai and how he thinks love should be enough for a women and they don’t need anything else in life. It shows how his views on women’s roles are not what hers are and she would like to work and he thinks that all she needs is love.]]> 2021-05-24 18:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554796712 Mary Family https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554811888 “Walter: We have decided to move into our house because my father—my father—he earned it for us brick by brick. We don’t want to make no trouble for nobody or fight no causes, and we will try to be good neighbors. And that’s all we got to say about that. We don’t want your money” (147). Earlier Walter focused on money but now he decides to stand by his family. Walter is now seen as a man and the Youngers will no longer defer their dreams, Instead they will face the future as Walter does.]]> 2021-05-24 18:06:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lisa_lewis4/kc15jw7k2dk17z22/wish/1554811888