Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Act 3 Notes

Setting:
- Act three starts an hour after Mama and the family found out Walter lost all the money
- Walter is laying on his bed alone
- Beneatha is in the living room when Asagai knocks on the door
Notes:
- Asagai comes over to help with the move
- Beneatha is very sad about the money being lost and begins questioning whether she wants to be a doctor, saying she cant help anybody
- Asagai explains to her that the money being lost does not change her life because it was not hers to begin with and he makes her feel much bettter about the money being lost
- Then he tells her he wants to take her home to Nigeria to help the country
- He leaves giving her a choice to go to Nigeria
- Beneatha gets into arguement with Walter and Walter leaves
- Mama comes into living room
- Mama tells everyone the family is not going to move into the new house
- Ruth freaks out saying that they have to move and that she will work 20 hours a day and she''ll do anything for them to move
- Walter calls Lindner to come back to the house
- Walter begins praising Mr. Lindner in front of Mama she is disgusted saying that "we ain't ever take money from the white people" she was very mad and thought she raised him better
- Beneatha is also disgusted saying "he is no brother of mine"
- When Mr. Lindner shows up Walter realizes that this was not how his Mama raised him and he told Lindner that they were gonna move into the new house and to get out of here
- The family begins getting everthing ready to move because the moving people are waiting outside
- Beneatha tells Mama that Asagai asked her to come to Africa and become a doctor there and to marry him.
- Mama doesn't say much other than she's too young to get married and Walter wants her to marry a man "with loot" like George not Asagai
- Everyone packs up and leaves and Mama comes in for one last thing, her little plant and then the scene ends.

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