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Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun
“A Raisin in the Sun”

In the play that Lorraine Hansberry wrote, her tone was realistic. It was realistic because for example, they just so happened to move into a racially divided neighborhood and the last black folks to live their left because of the white people. According to the book they got “bombed out”. Many of the characters had their own tone though. Ruth Younger was a more about doing everything just to please Walter Lee making her tone caring. Lena Younger “Mama” was all about buying a house and doing things for Travis, making her tone many, Caring, Dependable, and Reliable causing her to be a more neutral character. Walter and Ruth’s son Travis always had an accepting tone which made him seem like he didn’t care what he didn’t
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