Raisin in the Sun Allusions PDF

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Acd English I / Duryea-Lojko Allusions/Essential Terms in A Raisin in the Sun

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To say that A Raisin in the Sun has a lot of allusions is an understatement. Allusions serve several purposes in a work of literature. They ground the work in a specific time period and they also help to develop characterization, conflict, and theme. You are responsible for researching the allusions as we read. They are “fair game” and may appear on any quiz! Act 1, Scene 1

Colonel McCormick: owner  and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper; prominent Chicago resident

Act 2, Scene 2 Garbo: legendary actress of 1930s;

dramatic, mysterious; George calls Beneatha Greta Garbo because he thinks she is being overdramatic Hereros of Southwest Africa: the  Hereros “quiet desperation”: "the mass of men threw a revolt against the oppressive lead lives of quiet desperation." He thinks Germans from 1904-1907 misplaced value is the cause: We feel a void in our lives, and we attempt to fill it Morgan Park: with things like money, possessions, and “If the salt loses its savor…”: Contextaccolades. When Ruth says that Beneatha is fresh — “move on up a little higher”: a  song and then adds that Beneatha is as "fresh slop jars: a large pail used as a chamber pot or to receive waste water from a as salt" — Beneatha counters with a washbowl or the contents of chamber pedantic response, a phrase from the pots. Bible Booker T. Washington: An  Impact- Beneatha is saying that if she can't say her opinion, then she's nothing. African-American educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, She is simultaneously showing off her who headed Tuskegee Institute, a college knowledge of the Bible by quoting a for African-Americans in Alabama. verse. Beneatha uses the quote with Ku Klux Klan: a  secret hate group some pretentiousness to press the point inspired by the former, founded in 1915 that she knows the Bible from an intellectual point of view but that she does and currently active across the U.S., not believe in its religious messages. especially in the South, directed against black people, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, “No Ways Tired”: foreign-born individuals, and other groups.

Act 1, Scene 2

Nigeria Liberia Tarzan missionary work heathenism Colonialism (British and French) Yoruba Assimilationism queen of the Nile Jacob’s kettle lynching streetcar

Act 2, Scene 3

NAACP: the  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." W. E.B. “Thirty pieces and a not a coin less!”: of  silver was the standard price of a slave Mrs. Miniver: Inspired  by the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther, the film shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is touched by World War II. Act 2, Scene 1  heroine of the book Madame Butterfly: Beneatha  is dressed in Scarlet O’Hara: The Gone With the Wind. Scarlett is a shrewd, an African costume; in the stage manipulative southern belle who survives directions she is said to look more like two husbands and finally is matched in Butterfly than a Nigerian; the allusion refers to the character "Madame Butterfly" wits by a third, Rhett Butler. in Puccini's Italian opera Kenyatta: Jomo  Kenyatta, a Kenyan politician involved in the country's nationalist movement Chaka: he  became chief of the Zulu clan in 1816 and founded the great Zulu empire by conquering most of southern Africa Uncle Tom: reference  to Harriet Beecher Act 3 Stowe's book; black man who accepts the Monsieur le petit bourgeois noir U.S. Steel domination of a white man without The Man / Cap’n Boss / Mistuh Charley resistance sharecroppers Ashanti, Benin, Bantu: Ashanti  people from Africa speak the language of Bantu, Benin was the art produced in Africa Prometheus: In  Greek mythology, a Titan who was punished by Zeus for stealing

fire from the gods and giving it to humankind...