home is where the heart is

Living with divorced parents, I often experience confusion when telling someone that I live in two different places. Lucky for me, and rare for the situation, I have the privilege of having one house to call home. Having a home is often taken for granted, many don't realize its importance until it's taken from you. Especially for my overly-controlling tendencies, having one place which belongs to ME makes all the difference. In A Raisin in the Sun, this can be compared to Mama, whose life's work and ambitions is creating a proper home for her family. Her dream, since she and her husband got married, is to provide for her family. She honors this dream and her late husband, by using the money from his life's work to provide a house for her family. Throughout the story, it's clear that nothing will be able to stop her. 

When looking at Mama, despite the many differences, I see my own mother in her actions. Working, helping people, to provide for me the things she never had. A stable family, a home for me to come home to every day and a loving face to support me unceasingly. Mama's words of elation when finally buying the house of her dreams really hit home (pun intended). "It’s just a plain little old house—but it’s made good and solid—and it will be OURS." The emotion of decades of working towards her dreams is laced within these words. Moving as a family, the significance of the culmination of both Mama and her husband's work has finally achieved the American Dream.