A Raisin in the Sun Page #9

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He talked brotherhood. He said he can't

understand why people can't...

...sit down and hate each other

with good Christian fellowship.

You should hear the money

they raised...

...to buy the house back from us.

All we paid and then some.

What do they think we're going to do,

eat them?

No, honey, marry them.

Lord, Lord, Lord!

Well, that's the way

the crackers crumble. Joke.

What you doing?

I'm fixing my plant so it won't

get hurt none on the way.

You going to take that thing

with us to the new house?

That ragged-looking old thing?

It expresses me.

So there, Miss Thing.

You're going to make me

mess up my thing here now.

Get on away from me!

- How does the song go again?

- Go finish up packing.

I've got wings and you got wings

And all God's children got wings

All God's children got wings

We ain't finished packing.

The men'll be here soon.

Bennie, you ain't packed

one book yet.

Couldn't be the moving men.

It's not hardly 2.

I'll get it.

You expecting company?

Let them in.

We need some more string.

Travis, run down to the store

and get some string cord. Hurry.

Why don't you answer the door, man?

Because...

...sometimes it's just hard

to let the future begin.

Now I got wings

You got wings

You've got wings...

Hey, man. Where's Willie?

- He ain't with me.

- Come on in. Come in.

- You know my wife, don't you?

- Hi, Miss Ruth.

- Hi, Bobo.

- Right on time, baby. Right on time.

Come on, sit down, sit down!

Let me hear.

Could I have a drink of water

before I tell you about it?

Nothing go wrong on you?

- Let me tell you...

- Nothing went wrong, man.

Let me tell you.

You know how it was.

Now I got to tell you.

I mean, first I got to tell you

how it was all the way.

- About the money I put in.

- What about the money you put in?

It wasn't as much as we told you,

me and Willie.

I'm sorry.

I got a bad feeling about it.

- Why are you telling me?

- I had a real bad feeling.

- What happened down in Springfield?

- Springfield?

What was supposed

to happen in Springfield?

This deal that me

and Walter went into.

Me and Willie was going

to Springfield...

...and spread money around so as not

to wait to get the liquor license.

That's what we was going to do.

Everybody said that's the way.

You understand?

What happened down there, man?

I'm trying to tell you.

Tell me!

What's the matter with you?

I didn't go to no Springfield.

- Why not?

- I didn't have no reason to go.

- What are you talking about?

- When I got to the train station...

...yesterday morning, 8:00 like

we planned, Willie never did show up.

Why not? Where was he? Where is he?

That's what I'm trying to tell you.

I don't know.

I waited six hours!

I called his house and I waited.

I waited in that train

station six hours.

That was all the extra money

I had in this world.

Man, Willie's gone!

What do you mean, Willie is gone?

Gone where?

You mean he went by himself

to get the license?

You mean he went

to Springfield by himself?

He didn't want too many people

in on the business.

Willie got his own ways.

Maybe you were late yesterday,

and he went there without you.

Maybe he's sick.

He's somewhere, man.

He's somewhere.

We got to find him. You hear me?

He's gone!

Willie!

Don't do it, man. Not with that money.

Not with that money.

I trusted you.

I put my whole life in your hand.

Man, do you know that that money...

...is made out of my father's flesh?

- I'm sorry!

I'm sorry.

I had my life staked on this deal too.

Son...

...is it gone?

I gave you $6,500.

Is it gone?

All of it?

- Beneatha's money too?

- I didn't go to the bank at all.

I seen him...

...night after night, come in.

And he'd look at the rug,

and he'd look at me.

The red showing in his eyes...

...and the veins moving in his head.

I seen him grow old and thin

before he was 40.

Working and working and working...

...like somebody's old horse.

Killing himself!

And you...

You give it all away in one day!

Oh, God!

Please look down...

...and give me strength!

Father!

Oh, God!

Hello. I had some free time,

so I came over.

I thought I might help

with the packing.

I love the look of packing crates.

The sight of a household in preparation.

Movement. Progress.

- That makes me think of Africa.

- Africa?

What kind of mood is this?

I thought I'd find you

full of sunlight today.

Have I told you

how deeply you move me?

Is something wrong?

Asagai, he gave away the money.

- Who? What?

- The insurance money. My brother.

- He just gave it away.

- Gave it away?

He invested with a man

even Travis wouldn't have trusted...

...with his most worn-out marble.

And it's gone?

- It's gone.

- I see.

I'm very sorry.

But my brother's not the one

who's to blame.

By his lights,

he did what made sense to him.

My mama's the crazy one.

She just handed him the money.

She just got up one fine day

and just gave away my future.

Perhaps you don't see things

as well as your mother does.

This is the end for me.

You know, it takes money

to go to school.

What difference does it make?

Why would anybody want to be a doctor

in this nutty world?

Oh, my! Aren't we full of despair?

Look here. Was it your money?

I said, was it your money

that was lost?

- It belonged to all of us.

- But can't this make you see?

There's something wrong when

all the dreams in this house...

...depended on something

that might never have happened...

...if a man had not died.

We used to say back home...

..."Accident was at the first

and will be at the last...

...but a poor tree from which

the fruits of life may bloom."

What is the matter with you?

My family has been wiped out.

Don't they use money

where you're from?

I see only that you,

with all of your keen mind...

...cannot understand the greatness

of what your mother tried to do.

You're not too young to understand.

For all of her backwardness...

...she still acts, she still believes

that she can change things.

So she is more of the future

than you are.

But when somebody

can get up in the morning...

...without consulting you,

blithely hand away your future...

...then life's impossible.

It's futile. It's despair.

Listen...

I'm tired of listening.

I said that you will listen.

I have a bit of a suggestion.

- What?

- When it's over, come home with me.

At this moment,

you decide to be romantic.

Dear young creature

of the New World...

...I don't mean across the city.

I mean across the ocean. Home.

To Africa.

You mean to Nigeria?

"Three hundred years later, the African

prince rose up out of the sea...

...and swept the maiden back

across the middle passage...

...over which her ancestors had come."

- Nigeria?

- Nigeria. Home.

I'll show you our mountains

and our stars...

...and serve you

cool drinks from gourds...

...and teach you the old songs...

...and the ways of our people.

And in time, we'll pretend

that you've only been away for a day.

You're making me...

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