Dreams of the future can be changed‚ manipulated‚ or can even hold false hope. One can dream of being or doing something they truly aspire and it can make them accomplish it. Even though this is possible‚ people can experience not having the support from people that are in their everyday lives. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun” and the novel “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros‚ both authors convey the idea that women must work hard for their dreams of having a better
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Glass Ceiling In A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the Junior family is burdened with a glass ceiling that is not just restraining the female gender‚ but the African American Race as well. Throughout the book‚ a laboring family is not earning what they deserve‚ their dreams a reality. They struggle through living in a run down and cramped house‚ they way are fated to live by their race. The only income they receive comes from Walters pay check and as compensation for Walter Sr.’s death
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your life would be absolutely perfect? The fact is‚ a million dollars isn’t reality for the everyday average person. The average person works hard for a living barely scraping by. We are reminded of this throughout Lorraine Hansbury’s play A Raisin in the Sun. One of the main themes in this play is that money can’t buy happiness. The character who best conveys this theme is Walter Younger‚ a lean‚ intense young man in his middle thirties‚ who works as a chauffer in order to support his family. In
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What made Angels in America one of the best play for the last 50 years? For a similar reason why A Raisin in the Sun and The Zoot Suit were famous for. All these three play are based on racism and prejudice against an individual because of their sex‚ skin color‚ religion and sex preference. Human creature tends to fear things that are unknown and if someone or something that is different than them‚ their reaction to solve the problem would be hatred toward that individual. Which led to racism
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Walter receives a small amount of money following his fathers death‚ and inevitably lost it in a sketchy business deal. Panicked and humiliated Walter asked his family to give up their dream of moving into a nice home‚ and leaving the ghetto. Walter went as far as to have nearly selling away Mama’s dream and his father’s life work. Walter finds his voice and stands up for what is right for his family at the end of the story. Walters enlightening moment cam when he said “We have decided to move
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seem the same‚ Lennie should actually be considered more optimistic than Walter because of the dream‚ their family‚ and how they are separated because Lennie displays a more optimistic person. Walter‚ being raised through racism and living through civil rights movement‚ his background was built in the times of segregation and racism. Walter‚ whose occupation is to chauffeur white businessmen around‚ dreams of a future where he can become financially stable. “Do you know what this money means to
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In the the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry there is a strong presence of gender roles in the Younger family. The play takes place in the southside of Chicago‚ in mid-late 1950’s. At the time social injustices‚ like racism and sexism‚ were big controversies. Most of the country was focused on these issues. These issues were worse in the South but luckily this book takes place in Chicago‚ so the conditions the Younger family are in are not as rough as they could be. The family
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In James Baldwin’s short story‚ "Sonny’s Blues" and in Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun both address the gist of the "American Dream". The term "dream" for Baldwin and Hansberry means going through the worst to realize the best. In Baldwin’s short story‚ Baldwin goes through the worst in life dealing with many hardships. He takes drugs to ease the tensions he has. He realizes what’s best for him is music. Music is what helps him communicate about everything. In Hansberry’s play‚ each
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In the story A Raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a story about a poor family and how money has caused them to change the way the view life completely. The children of mama have all fallen far from her. she says that life is about being free and having family that cares about you. her kids think it’s all about money. The plot is the same in both. In both walter Lee Younger thinks it‚s a good idea to invest the money in a liquor store. Beneatha Younger wants to invest the money in her education
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feel prejudice towards a single individual or to an entire group of people‚ but in either sense the effects are felt by the victims none the less. Both pride and prejudice are major themes that Lorraine Hansberry weaved throughout her play A Raisin in the Sun and in turn these themes have affected the main characters in many different ways. The first time I noticed pride appear in the play is right at the beginning of act 1‚ scene 1 when the stage director is illustrating the setting. He
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