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Home » Monologues » ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (Beneatha):
“That was the most marvelous thing in the world”
‘A Raisin in the Sun’
(Beneatha): “That was the
most marvelous thing in
the world”
By TEAM DAILY ACTOR — July 29, 2015
'A Raisin in the Sun' by Lorraine Hansberry
From: Play
Type: Dramatic
Character: Beneatha Younger
Gender: Female
Age Range: 20's
Summary: 20-year old Beneatha is currently going
to college and some of her personal beliefs and
views have distanced her from conservative family.
She dreams of being a doctor and struggles to
determine her identity as a well-educated black
woman.
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BENEATHA: Me?…Me?…Me, I’m nothing…Me. When
I was very small…we used to take our sleds out in
the wintertime and the only hills we had were the
ice-covered stone steps of some houses down the
street. And we used to Xll them in with snow and
make them smooth and slide down them all day…
and it was very dangerous you know…far too
steep…and sure enough one day a kid named Rufus
came down too fast and hit the sidewalk… and we
saw his face just split open right there in front of
us… And I remember standing there looking at his
bloody open face thinking that was the end of
Rufus. But the ambulance came and they took him
to the hospital they Xxed the broken bones and
they sewed it all up…and the next time I saw Rufus
he just had a little line down the middle of his
face…I never got over that…
That that was what one person could do for
another, Xx him up—sew up the problem, make him
all right again. That was the most marvelous thing
in the world…I wanted to do that. I always thought it
was the one concrete thing in the world that a
human being could do. Fix up the sick, you know—
and make them whole again. This was truly being
God.
No—I wanted to cure. It used to be so important to
me. I wanted to cure. It used to matter. I used to
care. I mean about people and how their bodies
hurt…
I think I stopped.
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