Joseph wants benetha to go to Nigeria with him to see all the mountains and beautful homes how Nigeria is not a jungle.
Whether she wants to be an assimilationist
Joseph Asagai is a young African man who is friends with Beneatha (and wants and tries to be more than that). While the Younger family, Beneatha included, identifies more as African American and is comfortable with their American heritage and proud of their history as American citizens and the lessons they have learned from it, Asagai is equally proud of his African heritage, and wants to move back to Africa as soon as he can. He criticizes what he calls "assimilationist negroes" and sees advancement into American society as an abandonment of history and culture. He uses African words and nicknames for Beneatha and for himself, and gives Beneatha traditional African cultural clothing as gifts. His culture defines him, and he wants it to define Beneatha, too. He wants her to come back with him to Africa, where she will have more freedom and a greater potential.
because he wants a raisin
Whether she wants to be an assimilationist
A friend of walters who wants to be partners in the liquor store business
Whether she wants to be an assimilationist
Joseph Asagai is a young African man who is friends with Beneatha (and wants and tries to be more than that). While the Younger family, Beneatha included, identifies more as African American and is comfortable with their American heritage and proud of their history as American citizens and the lessons they have learned from it, Asagai is equally proud of his African heritage, and wants to move back to Africa as soon as he can. He criticizes what he calls "assimilationist negroes" and sees advancement into American society as an abandonment of history and culture. He uses African words and nicknames for Beneatha and for himself, and gives Beneatha traditional African cultural clothing as gifts. His culture defines him, and he wants it to define Beneatha, too. He wants her to come back with him to Africa, where she will have more freedom and a greater potential.
because he wants a raisin
Beneatha is Mama's daughter and Walter's sister. She is more educated than the rest of the family and they think that she is proud and kind of demanding. Asagai wants to marry her and take her to Africa, where he thinks her prospects will be higher, and she wants to go to medical school and become a doctor so that she can "make people better." This dream might be halted in its tracks because of Walter's misuse of money, but that is left uncertain at the end of the book. Beneatha is trying to decide who she is and who she wants to be as she grapples with the ideas of different influences- Asagai, who wants her to put aside her "assimilationist" leanings, her family, who thinks she should settle with a rich African American man to support her family, and her own childhood dream of becoming an educated woman and a doctor.
She cuts her hair because she wants to show she can be unmaterialistic and that she is proud of where she comes from and who she is. that beauty comes from the inside as Asagai had told her.
Whether she wants to be an assimilationist
wants a new home, one that she can claim to be hers
A friend of walters who wants to be partners in the liquor store business
wants a new home, one that she can claim to be hers
A friend of walters who wants to be partners in the liquor store business
she wants to buy a house for her family
Her dream is to become a doctor to help her family financially. She also wants a bigger house and she wants to live a better life.