ACT I, SCENE ONE Vocabulary undistinguished-common, nothing special exasperated-irritated, provoked viciously-violently, cruelly vindicated-cleared of an accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt proposition-suggested plan vengeance-with violence or fury tentatively-uncertainly furtively-secretly, sneaky futile-useless tyrant-ruler who exercises power in a harsh, cruel manner, a dictator
1. In what city does the play takes place? 2. The living room setting seems overtaken by weariness. Name twodetails that suggest this. 3. Who are the first family members to appear? 4. Two references are made to a check. How does Ruth react to each ofthese references?S-15. According to his mother, why is Travis getting so little sleep? 6. Why does Travis ask Ruth for fifty cents? 7. What is the plan Walter, Willy Harris, and Bobo been figuring out? 8. Why is Walter upset with his wife’s reaction? 9. What does Walter want from Ruth? 10. Walter says, “We one group of men tied to a race of women withsmall minds”? What does he mean? 11. What is Walter’s job?S-212. Describe the tone that Beneatha uses with her brother.13. Why is Walter upset with Beneatha’s plan to go to medical school? 14. What does Beneatha mean when she says, “forgive me for ever wantingto be anything at all”? 15. What does Walter tell Beneatha she should do with her life? Inreality, he has a deeper, underlying conflict. What is Walter’s hidden fear? 16. What does the reader discover about the check that Mama is waitingto receive? 17. How does Beneatha feel about the liquor store? 18. Ruth suggests that Mama might help Walter by giving him some of themoney for his dream of buying the liquor store. How does Mama respond? 19. How much money is the check for, and how does Mama intend to useit? How does Ruth say Mama should spend the money? What does this say about thedifferences in their characters? 20. Mama says that her late husband once grieved deeply. What event ledto Big Walter’s grief? 21. Beneatha thinks deeply and is frustrated with her life. What doesshe say she wants to do that makes her mother and Ruth laugh loudly? 22. How does the reader know that Beneatha does not want to marryGeorge Murchison?
Answer the questions in blue!!! Due on Friday
ACT I, SCENE TWO
Vocabulary
inappropriately-unbecomingly, wrongly, improperly
heathenism-“religion” of those who do not believe in God
forlornly-sadly, hopelessly
assimilation-integration, absorption
insinuatingly-cleverly, shrewdly
haphazardly-randomly, irregularly
coquettishly-coyly, flirtlingly
arrogant-self-important, overconfident
eccentric-unusual, peculiar oppressive-cruel, unfair
cliché-overused word or phrase
sarcastically-ironically, mockingly
plaintively-sorrowfully
menacingly-threateningly
1. What happens at the very end of Act I, Scene One? What is thesetting of the start of Act I, Scene two?
2. During the cleaning scene, several details further explain theYoungers’ living conditions. Name one that offers a complete picture of the environment in which theYoungers live and explain why it does so.
3. Why is Ruth upset when she returns home? Why do you suppose she is so unhappy?
4. When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, andhow does Beneatha react?
5.Identify Joseph Asagai. What is implied about the relationshipbetween Beneatha and Asagai?
6. What does Asagai give to Beneatha as a gift? Why is Beneatha pleased with it? How does Asagai react?
7. What stereotypes about women does Asagai reveal? What is Beneatha’sopinion about a relationship with Asagai?
9. What is Asagai’s Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name meanin English?
10. Why does Beneatha thank Asagai for the nickname?
11. When the postman brings the check for $10,000, Mama is overjoyedand then worried. Explain her conflicting feelings.
12. What does Walter ask as soon as he comes in the door? Why does heshout? Report Walter’s reaction to Mama’s refusal to invest in a liquor store.
13. What concern does Mama have about Walter’s frequent times away fromhome?
14. How does Walter explain his discontent about his job and hisfuture?
15. Why is Mama “proud of…what we done”? Who is “we” in her statement?
16. Why does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech, and head out of the apartment?
17. What news does Mama tell Walter about Ruth? What is Walter’s initial reaction?
19. To what does Mama refer when she says, “You are a disgrace to the memory of your father.”?
20. Describe Walter. What are his dreams, his frustrations, his problems?
21. By the end of Act I, what have we learned about Ruth?
22. By the end of Act I, what have we learned about Beneatha?
23. Which of Mama’s values are revealed in Act I?
24. What negative situations in the Youngers’ lives are making their conflicts worse? What positive aspects may help them resolve their problems?
11 comments:
1)What happens at the very end of Act I, Scene One? What is the setting of the start of Act I, Scene two?
At the very end of Act I, Scene I, Mama dreams about how she always wanted a garden and when she turns to talk to Ruth, she saw her on the floor unconscious. The setting of scene two act I is Saturday morning Mama and Beneatha in their little apartment cleaning.
4) When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, and how does Beneatha react?
He is upset of the smell of the thing that Beneatha using to kill cockroaches. He tells her to stop killing them because they don’t harm her, and she just starts fighting with him.
9) What is Asagai’s Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name mean in English?
He calls her Alaiyo, and it means a person for whom food Is not enough.
13) What concern does Mama have about Walter’s frequent times away fromhome?
She says it’s too dangerous to go outside too much.
16) Why does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech, and head out of the apartment?
He’s angry that Ruth wants to do abortion on the baby.
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1. What happens at the very end of Act I, Scene One? What is the setting of the start of Act I, Scene two?
Setting: Kitchen of the Younger's family
At the end of Act I, Scene two, Walter was pretty upset that the money wasn't used for the investment for his future liquor store, instead for Mama's dream house with a garden. He also discovers that his wife, Ruth is pregnant with another baby. Beneatha is astonished and sarcastically she thought 'where was the baby going to live, on the roof'. That only brought Ruth more depressed. Ruth stands up and bravely said how she put a 5 dollar down payment for the abortion. Walter was shocked that she even did that in the beginning. Mama and her religious self told Walter to be a man and to stand up for his unborn child. Mama starts to say how God gave them life and how Ruth is going to destroy the child. Walter just walks out with out a word. "You are a disgrace to your father's memory.."
4. When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, and how does Beneatha react?
The smell is from what Beneatha is using to kill the roaches. He says that the roaches are harmless and they don't do anything to her. Beneatha just starts to yell back.
9. What is Asagai’s Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name mean in English?
Asagai calls Beneatha "Alaiyo"
It means "One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough"
13) What concern does Mama have about Walter’s frequent times away from home?
Mama believes that it's dangerous when a man goes outside his home to look for peace. She accuses Walter of cheating on Ruth with another women and she assumes that he found peace in another home.
16) Why does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech, and head out of the apartment?
He's angry that Ruth is actually going to get a abortion without his say in anything and that the money isn't used the way he wants it to be used (the liquor store).
1.The setting in the story at the beginning was at the younger’s family. At the end of Act I, Scene two, Walter was upset because mama wasn’t going to give him the money to open up a liquor store, instead she wanted to buy a bigger house with a garden, and save some of it for Bennies tuition. Everyone also discovers that Ruth is pregnant, and everyone is surprised especially Walter.
4.Travis is upset because he doesn’t like the fact that Bennie is spraying the roaches because he says that they don’t harm her, and Bennie just gets exasperated and fights back.
9. Asagai calls Beneatha "Alaiyo" meaning "One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough".
13. When Walter leaves the house she is always worried because she believes that it's dangerous when a man goes outside his home to look for peace. She thinks Walter is another woman.
16. Walter gets angry and leaves because Ruth is going to get an abortion without his say in the decision and mama says that she’s not planning on giving him money for the liquor store.
1: What happens at the very end of Act 1, Scene One? What is the setting of the start of Act 1, Scene two?
At the end of Act 1, Scene one, Mama and Ruth were having a conversation about how Mama always dreamed to live in a house with her own garden full of flowers and when she turns to look at Ruth she founds out that Ruth is on the floor unconscious. The setting of the beginning of Act 1 Scene 2 is at Mama's house on a Saturday morning where everyone is home rearranging the house and furniture.
4: When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, and how does Beneatha react?
When Travis enters the room, he was very upset about the smell of the cockroach spray that Beneatha is using to kill cockroaches. Travis keeps telling Beneatha to stop killing them because they never harmed Beneatha in any way, but Beneatha doesn't care and yells back at Travis.
9: What is Asagai's Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name mean in English?
Asagai calls Beneatha Alaiyo which means a one for whom food is not enough.
13: What concern does Mama have about Walter's frequent times away from home?
Mama believes that Walter shouldn't go out too much because the outside world is very dangerous.
16: What does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech & head out of the apartment?
Walter is very angry because of many things, one thing is that he finds out that Ruth is pregnant but instead of keeping the baby she is thinking of an abortion, and he is very upset that the 10,000 dollars aren't used in the way he wanted to.
1. What happens at the very end of Act I, Scene One? What is the setting of the start of Act I, Scene two?
Answer: Beneatha, Ruth, and Mama argue about Beneatha quiting everything she does or tries. And that she likes George only becasue he is rich. Beneatha also use's gods name which makes Mama mad. So Mama does not want Beneathat disrespecting her like that and that she is the head of the house. At the very end Ruth faints. The setting at the start of Act 1, Scene two is on a Saturday, and the family is cleaning the apartment.
4. When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, andhow does Beneatha react?
Answer: Travis smells the spray that Beneatha is using to kill the roaches. Travis said that they haven't done anything to her. And they both start fighting then Beneatha threatens him with the spray can.
9. What is Asagai’s Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name meanin English?
Answer: In Scene two of Act one Asagi calls Beneatha "Alaiyo". Which in english it means "One for Whom Bread--Food-- Not Enough."
13. What concern does Mama have about Walter’s frequent times away from home?
Answer: Mama thinks its to dangerous to go outside a lot and she is concerned that he might be cheating on Ruth.
16) Why does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech, and head out of the apartment?
Answer: He is angery becasue Ruth wants an abortion and that he can't use the insurance money on the liquor store.
1) What happens at the very end of Act I, Scene One? What is the setting of the start of Act I, Scene Two?
At the very end of Act I, Scene I, Mama is talking to Ruth about her dreams of a garden. When Mama turns around, she finds Ruth on the floor unconcious.
The setting of the start of Act I, Scene II, is in the Younger family's kitchen.
4) When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, and how does Beneatha react?
Travis is upset when he enters the room because of the smell of the insecticide that Beneatha is spraying to kill the roaches. He tells her to leave the cockroaches alone because they have never done anything to her.
9) What is Asagai's Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name mean in English?
Asagai's Nigerian name for Beneatha Alaiyo. In English, this name means "One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough."
13. What concern does Mama have about Walter's frequent times away from home?
Mama says that it is dangerous when a man goes outside of his home to look for peace. Mama thinks that there is another woman that Walter is with.
16. Why does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech, and head out of the apartment?
Walter makes an angry speech and heads out of the apartment because Ruth is planning on aborting their baby and Mama says she is not going to use the money from the check for his liquor store.
1)At the very end of Act I, Scene One Mama is talking about her future dreams and turns around to notice that Ruth is lying on the floor. In the start of Act I, Scene two Mama and Beneatha are in the apartment cleaning.
4)The reson that Travis is upset is because The cockroach spray that Beneatha uses has a horrible smell to it, beneath reacts by yelling at him.
9)He calls her "Alaiyo" which means "One for whom bread-food-is not enough"
13)Mama believes that it is very dangerous for a man to be away from home too much. She also believes that he has found peace in a home of another woman.
16)Walter is upset that Ruth is getting an abortion without talking to him first, this made him feel useless.
1. What happens at the very end of Act I, Scene One? What is the setting of the start of Act I, Scene two?
The thing that happened at the very end of Act I, Scene one was that Mama and Ruth were talking in a conversation about Mama's dream of having a house of her own &her own little garden. When Mama turns around to look at Ruth, she finds her on the floor, unconscious. The setting of Act I, Scene two is on a Saturday morning, at Mama's house cleaning and re-arranging the furniture there.
4. When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, and how does Beneatha react?
As Travis enters the room, he's upset because of the scent of the cockroach spray that Beneatha's using to get rid of the cockroaches. Travis says to Beneatha about how the roaches doesn't harm them at all, however, Beneatha doesn't listen to him, and yells back.
9. What is Asagai’s Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name mean in English?
The name that Asagai gave Beneatha in Nigerian is Alaiyo. It's means "One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough".
13. What concern does Mama have about Walter’s frequent times away from home?
Mama's concerned that Walter may be cheating on Ruth with another woman, and that it's dangerous when a man gets out of his home to look for peace.
15. Why is Mama “proud of…what we done”? Who is “we” in her statement?
The we in that statement are the people in her family, like Walter, Ruth, Beneatha, and them.
16. Why does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech, and head out of the apartment?
Walter's angry because the insurance check won't be spent on his dream; his liquor store. Also because Ruth's planning on getting an abortion, and he didn't get his say in the decision that she made.
1)What happens at the very end of Act I, Scene One? What is the setting of the start of Act I, Scene two?
At the end of Act 1, scene 1, the setting is in the Younger's apartment. Walter is upset that the money from the insurance isn't going to his liquor store, but is going to Mama's dream house with a garden.
4) When Travis enters the room, he too is upset. What is his news, and how does Beneatha react?
Travis is upset at the smell from what Beneatha uses to kill the roaches. He says they aren't doing anything to harm Beneatha, and they just get into an argument.
9) What is Asagai’s Nigerian name for Beneatha? What does the name mean in English?
Asagi's Nigerian name for Beneatha is Alaiyo, which means "one for whom food is not enough"
13)What concern does Mama have about Walter’s frequent times away from home?
Mama believes it's dangerous for a man to go outside his home to look for peace, Mama also think Walter is cheating on Ruth.
16) Why does Walter crumple his papers, make an angry speech, and head out of the apartment?
Walter is angry because Ruth is having an abortion, without his say in the matter. Another reason is that the money is not being used for his liquor store.
1)What happens at the end of Act 1 was that Mama was talking about her maybe getting a new house and Ruth fell on the floor unconscious.
4)He is upset because he didn't want Beneatha killing the cockaroaches because they didn't do anything to her.
9)Asagai's Nigerian name for Beneatha is Alaiyo. It means a person that food isn't enough.
13) Mama concerns about Walter's frequent times away from home are that she is worried Walter can get hurt.
16) Walter crumples his papers, makes an angry speech, and heads out of the apartment because Mama says that she won't invest in his liquor bussiness.
1)What happens at the end of Act 1 was that Mama was talking about her maybe getting a new house and Ruth fell on the floor unconscious.
4)He is upset because he didn't want Beneatha killing the cockaroaches because they didn't do anything to her.
9)Asagai's Nigerian name for Beneatha is Alaiyo. It means a person that food isn't enough.
13) Mama concerns about Walter's frequent times away from home are that she is worried Walter can get hurt.
16) Walter crumples his papers, makes an angry speech, and heads out of the apartment because Mama says that she won't invest in his liquor bussiness.
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