So Long A Letter And A Raisin In The Sun: Love And Wealth

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from Walter Younger’s death and his wife wants to buy a house in an all white neighborhood. The Younger family consist of Lena, the mother Walter Lee and Beneatha her children, Walter Lee’s wife, Ruth, and their son Travis. This story takes place in the 1950’s when there were many racial discriminations occurring, segregations, and the Civil Rights movement.
So Long a Letter takes place where the Islamic culture and tradition is very important. In the Islamic culture a very looked upon when he has many wives, because it is a sign of wealth and power that they can afford to take care of them. Ramatoulaye was married to Modou. After having twelve children, leaves her to marry Binetou, a young girl who was friends with his daughter Daba. Modou spends a lot of money buying her clothes, jewelry, and allowance, as it was her salary. Modou also promises her to send her parents to Mecca. Ramatoulaye’s friend, Aissatou is also in the same predicament. Her husband is Mawdo and his mother, ...

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have this burden, she was now alone and had to support her twelve children with food and a roof over their heads. When Modou was alive his mother also had an issue with wealth. She would go to the villa with her friends to show off her son’s social success of a house she doesn’t even live. And Binetou would get an allowance; she would show off with her success of marrying a wealthy man by taking her friends to a restaurant were she was treated like famous person. All the members of society are some what wrapped up in class status and wealth.
A Raisin in the Sun, took place in a time where blacks were discriminated against and the only way to get by was to have pride in who they were. ...

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