Raisin Blog Post 5

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

12. Often, in life, a situation may reach a "point of no return"--the point after which the life of a person can never be the same. Describe such a turning point for a character in Raisin. 

 I think the biggest event that happened in A Raisin in the Sun is when we find out that Willy ran off with all of Bobo's and Walter's money. This is definitely a point of no return. Bobo tells Walter, "...I waited in that train station six hours...(Breaking into tears) That was all the extra money I had in the world... (Looking up at Walter with the tears running down his face) Man, Willy is gone" (Hansberry 127). I did not see that coming at all. I knew something was wrong, though, when Bobo seemed so weird about coming to talk to Walter. This is a point of no return because now the family has absolutely no money at all. They just put a down payment on the house and Mama gave the rest to Walter to put some in the bank for Beneatha and to save the rest. We find out he did not do this, though. Turns out he didn't put any of the money in the bank. And now they have nothing. It was foolish of him to try and invest it all in a sketchy guy and not save any of it. Everyone is super angry at Walter and Mama starts hitting him in the face over and over again. I think this was really a breaking point as well as a point of no return for the family. All the stress had built up and this just tipped it over the edge to the point where everyone breaks down down and doesn't know where to go from there.