Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun. MAMA: Father, give us strength. (Knowingly—and without fun.) Did he threaten us? ·BENEATHA: Oh—Mama—they don't do it like that anymore. He talked Brotherhood. He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Christian fellowship,She and WALTER shake hands to ridicule the remark.MAMA (sadly): Lord, protect us . . .
Which mood is used to state facts or opinions?
Which lines of dialogue develop the idea that racially charged confrontations can have a sudden and unpleasant impact? Select three options.
If biblio is a word root meaning "book,” and phil means "love,” what is the best definition of bibliophile in the sentence below?Elena was a bibliophile, so she amassed a library of thousands of books over the course of her life.
Read the two passages from A Raisin in the Sun.Passage 1:MAN (coming in): Thank you.BENEATHA: My mother isn't here just now. Is it business?MAN: Yes . . . well, of a sort.WALTER (freely, the Man of the House): Have a seat. I'm Mrs. Younger's son. I look after most of her business matters.RUTH and BENEATHA exchange amused glances.Passage 2:MAMA (to WALTER): Son—(She goes to him, bends down to him, talks to his bent head.) Son . . . Is it gone? Son, I gave you sixty-five hundred dollars. Is it gone? All of it? Beneatha's money too?WALTER (lifting his head slowly): Mama . . . I never . . . went to the bank at all . . . MAMA (not wanting to believe him): You mean . . . your sister's school money . . . you used that too . . . Walter? . . .WALTER: Yessss! All of it . . . It's all gone . . .There is total silence. RUTH stands with her face covered with her hands; BENEATHA leans forlornly against a wall, fingering a piece of red ribbon from the mother's gift. MAMA stops and looks at her son without recognition and then, quite without thinking about it, starts to beat him senselessly in the face. BENEATHA goes to them and stops it. BENEATHA: Mama!MAMA stops and looks at both of her children and rises slowly and wanders vaguely, aimlessly away from them.
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