Walter's DREAM by Jane Wisdom https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv Add EVIDENCE from the play about what Walter wants (aside from just a liquor store) and WHY he wants it so badly. en-us 2020-10-27 18:40:56 UTC 2020-12-03 00:01:34 UTC hello@padlet.com On page 108 (Act 2, scene 2, at the end) Travis tells Walter he wants to be a bus driver. Walter says, "Man, that ain't nothing to want to be!...it ain't big enough." Walter goes on to say that in seven years, when Travis is old enough to go to college, Walter will be able to send him anywhere he wants to go. Walter says, "Whatever you want to be--Yessir! You just name it, son and I hand you the world" (Hansberry 109). https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/894677247 2020-11-05 16:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/894677247 He dreams about getting his family a better home. “I'm 35 years old: I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room--and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live" (34) ghernandez218 https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/894704634 2020-11-05 16:26:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/894704634 https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/895025616 "Yeah. You see, this little liquor store we got in mind
cost seventy-five thousand and we figured the initial
investment on the place be ’bout thirty thousand, see.
That be ten thousand each. Course, there’s a couple of
hundred you got to pay so’s you don’t spend your life just
waiting for them clowns to let your license get approved" (36). 

]]> 2020-11-05 17:32:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/895025616 Page 35 apeddada https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/895324484 "Anybody who talks to me has got to be a good-fornothing loudmouth, ain’t he? And what you know about
who is just a good-for-nothing loudmouth? Charlie Atkins
was just a “good-for-nothing loudmouth” too, wasn’t he!
When he wanted me to go in the dry-cleaning business
with him. And now—he’s grossing a hundred thousand a
year. A hundred thousand dollars a year! You still call him
a loudmouth!" ADD PAGE NUMBER!!]]> 2020-11-05 18:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/895324484 You may want to include some of the things he mentions on pages 141--143, then again some of the things he says to Mr. Lindner about his family near the end of the play jwisdom1 https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/941504757 2020-11-19 14:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/941504757 Page 143 drekounas https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/941987457 "Don't cry Mama. Understand. That white man is going to walk in that door able to write checks for more money than we ever had. It's important to him and I'm going to help him...I'm going to put on the show, Mama." This quote shows that Walter wants to provide for his family and make them live the life the he never had. ADD PAGE NUMBER]]> 2020-11-19 16:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jwisdom1/mbtkegh83l5pu0uv/wish/941987457