Many different things in life can make us change our opinions and actions. In the play Ruth does this. “(Beaten) Yes I would Too, Walter. (Pause) I gave her a five dollar down payment” (Hansberry 476). This quote shows her decision which in the line before Walter thinks she could never make. Walter thinks she could never make a decision to kill her baby. She seems to be shaking on this opinion because of the current strains on her family. They are poor and fighting to stay above water. She thinks that another baby might push them over their limits causing them to suffer greatly or maybe die. Mama expressed this by mentioning that a mother may sacrifice her unborn child if she thinks it will save those other members of her family that are already alive. The stress on Ruth’s family causes her to take an action that others though she would never take. The world and others can influence people to de many thing though unthinkable if there is enough pressure behind their influence.
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