When reading A Raisin in the Sun, I formed my own view on how each character looked, sounded, and moved. It was somewhat of a shock to what the movie based on the play I had just read mainly because a lot of what I had imagined was now being shown to me in a different way. What my mind had envisioned these characters as was now having to go back and relearn their feelings and intentions just because of the way the actors were now saying the lines and expressing the feelings.

I always saw Beneatha's character being somewhat of a naïve school girl who went to school everyday and then returned home trying to parade the knowledge she possessed around in front of her family. After watching the movie, I see her more now as an individual...