1. VOCABULARY A RAISIN IN THE SUN

2. undistinguished tyrant exasperated mutilated assimilation oppressive indictment rebuff IMPORTANT WORDS

3. “The YOUNGER living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of indestructible contradictions to this state of being. Its furnishings are typical and undistinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years.” –p. 23 UNDISTINGUISHED

4. having no distinguishing marks or features common, nothing special unnoticed inconspicuous not separated or divided. UNDISTINGUISHED

5. Undistinguished?

7. “Mama: Now—you say after me, in my mother’s house there is still God… Beneatha: In my mother’s house there is still God…Yes, ma’am… Ruth: You still think you a woman, Bennie… Beneatha: I see. (Quietly) I also see that everybody thinks it’s all right for Mama to be a tyrant.” –p. 52 TYRANT

8. a person of authority who uses power unjustly. absolute ruler, dictator one who exercises a harsh use of power TYRANT

9. Tyrant?

11. “Ruth: I don’t care what teacher sat. I ain’t got it. Eat your breakfast, Travis. Travis: I am eating. Ruth: Hush up now and just eat! (The boy gives her an exasperated look for her lack of understanding, and eats grudgingly)” -p. 28 EXASPERATED

12. exasperate: to excite the anger of irritated or annoyed infuriated or enraged EXASPERATED

13. Exasperated?

15. “I shall have to teach you how to drape it properly. (He flings the material about her for the moment and stands back to look at her)… You wear it well…very well…mutilated hair and all.” –p. 61 MUTILATED

16. mutilate: to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect; to destroy a limb destroyed or ruined disabled or crippled MUTILATED

17. Mutilated?

20. “Asagai: Well…it is true that this is not so much a profile of a Hollywood queen as perhaps a queen of the Nile—But what does it matter? Assimilationism is so popular in your county. Beneatha: I am not an assimilationist!” –p. 63 ASSIMILATION

21. assimilate: to conform or adjust to the customs, attitudes, etc. of a particular group or nation. to cause to resemble, to make similar absorbed blended in ASSIMILATION

22. Assimilation?

24. “It means someone who is willing to give up his own culture and submerge himself completely in the dominant, and in this case oppressive culture!” –p. 81 OPPRESSIVE

25. oppress: to crush or burden by abuse of power unreasonably burdensome or severe overwhelming or depressing to the spirit brutal cruel inhuman OPPRESSIVE

26. Oppressive?

28. “The bedroom door at right opens and her husband stands in the doorway in his pajamas, which are rumpled and mismated. He is a lean, intense young man…inclined to quick nervous movements and erratic speech habits—and always in his voice there is a quality of indictment.” –p. 25 INDICTMENT

29. indict: to charge with a fault or offense; to accuse; criticize an expression of STRONG disapproval complaint criticism INDICTMENT

30. Indictment?

32. “O.K….O.K., whatever you say…(They both sit on the couch. He tries to kiss her. She moves away)… I want a nice—(Groping)—simple (Thoughtfully)—sophisticated girl…not a poet…(He starts to kiss her, she rebuffs him again and he jumps up)” -p. 96 REBUFFS

33. rebuff: to reject or criticize sharply refused rudely rejected snubbed REBUFFS

34. Rebuffed?

37. GROUP WORK Creating our own sentences!