My Dearest Family,

Dear Mama, Brother, Ruth and Travis,

I had to go. Please try to forgive me.  I wanted to say goodbye, but I couldn’t stand the shame.  The shame of choosing to leave behind something so dear to me.  Please try to understand.  Things just been gettin’ so foggy and I couldn’t see so well and I felt so trapped and everything was goin’ far from any ray of sunshine and Asagai made the idea sound so nice and he talked about showing me “...our mountains and out stars...the ways of our people”(137) and I want to cure people there and help.  Don’t think me selfish because I’m really not that kind, but I still don’t know what kind I am and I don’t know what kind I want to be.  So that’s why I’m going and I am probably on the way.  Asagai says it will seem like I never left Nigeria and that I’ll like the lifestyle they live down there.  Me and him are getting married and I am goin’ to be wearin’ one of his sister’s dresses and they goin’ to teach me how to dance.  I hope Clybourne Park is nice and I hope them snooty white folk don’t get in the way of anything and I hope that rude Mr. Lindor don’t come over no more.  Tell Travis to behave well and to play in the backyard plenty.  Mama, make your plants grow strong.  As for the rest of you, I will feel like a part of me is gone, but I know this is for the better.  Don’t miss me too much and I’ll try to do the same.  Just know it isn’t the guitar or becoming a doctor that is going to make me who I am; it’s each and everyone of you that have helped me along the way.  I am so thankful for that everyday.  I love each and every one of you and I am so proud of ya'll.  

With Love,
Beneatha

A Fairy TAIL(of a vicious and fire breathing animal): Beware or this so called fairy TAIL could harm you too!

    Once upon a time, there was a sweet girl that fell in love with a charming young man; their families knew their children were right for each other and they lived happily ever after.  The End.

    Everyone has heard these perfect fairy tales, but I wonder if there is more to these stories than is on the surface.  The three evil step sisters are so tied up in their wealth that they couldn’t find love and Snow White is forced to run away from all of the evil where she grew up, a place that is infested with wealth almost as large and absurd and as a pink elephant.  Similar to these stories, wealth as a means of happiness causes the Washington family, in “The Diamond As Big As The Ritz” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, an abundance of trouble.  In fact most of the family loses their lives and even kills their own guests!  Although Moses was able to part the Red Sea, the Washington family couldn’t even differentiate between the contrasting ideas of wealth and happiness so the two could live in harmony with each other.  Even today, it seems as if obtaining money and a “happily ever after” have an enormous disconnect.  The rhetoric that F. Scott Fitzgerald uses such as the symbol of a diamond with no flaws, ironically having no worth if it were to be discovered, reveal the underlying theme in the story: the amount of joy you get out of living is not measured by materiality.  Although these stories point out the harsh reality of our society ruled by money, it is possible that they can change the fate of America.  While reading a story about a “diamond as big as the Ritz”, I knew that the story wasn’t far off.  When people start realize how dysfunctional it is to govern the quality of life by how much they own, the “American dream” might become something completely different.