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    true purpose of the American Dream? Through her play A Raisin in the sun‚ Loraine Hansberry tries to educate readers that we not only dream for the sake of accomplishment‚ we also dream for the promise of hope. Each person has a different vision in regards to the American Dream‚ but one commonality between every goal is the motivation it brings. We all deal with difficulties in life and‚ as reflected in the title‚ we are like raisins in the sun‚ shriveling up unless we have a cloud of imagination to

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    which woman is suppose to wear pearls in this world? I tell you I am a man- and I think my wife should wear some pearls in this world” (Hansberry 143). Walter Lee‚ the poor soul and victim of the society in the 1950s Chicago‚ just wanted…. The Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry focuses on an oppressed black family‚ the Youngers‚ as they tackle destruction of dreams‚ racism‚ and discrimination. Walter Lee the ambitious‚ proud protagonist faces many challenges brought upon him by the antagonist

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    Webster 1  Kiahna Webster  Mr. Jackson  English III‚ 7th Period  April 14th‚ 2014  Death of a Salesman​  vs. ​ A Raisin in the Sun  Death of a Salesman​  and ​ A Raisin in the Sun​  are definitely a criticism of capitalism and the  American way of life. They’re are millions that are going through similarities that are exhibited  in the films. Many feel as if money is everything in life when truly it is not. In the film ​ Death of  a Salesman​ ‚ Willy felt as if money was everything. Willy literally gave his life away so that his 

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    The Difference of Mothers in The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun The plays‚ The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun‚ deal with the love‚ honor‚ and respect of family. In The Glass Menagerie‚ Amanda‚ the caring but overbearing and over protective mother‚ wants to be taken care of‚ but in A Raisin in the Sun‚ Mama‚ as she is known‚ is more or less‚ the overseer of the family. The prospective of the plays identify that we have family members‚ like Amanda‚ as overprotective‚ or like Mama

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    people tell them to say or do‚ even in a racist environment? These are the difficulties many people‚ especially African Americans‚ faced in the 1950s. Lorraine Hansberry‚ not only illustrates this struggle in A Raisin in the Sun‚ but faced the challenge in her own life. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ she writes about different generations “trapped in a Chicago apartment‚ unable to break an invisible barrier that keeps them from

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    prejudice existed and did not allow people of minorities to receive equal rights. In the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ Lorraine Hansberry‚ the author‚ expresses how racial tension was during the 1950s by introducing a character who appears briefly but is a significant character to the story named Mr. Linder. Mr. Linder expresses racial tension between majority and minority in the play A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry expresses this by showing that he is the only white person in this play. Mr.

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    A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry was produced in 1959 and foresees many of the issues that the African American populations were facing regarding their own identity. The Youngers are an extremely poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago that suffer from the racial tension between black and white in their everyday lives. Lena Younger‚ her daughter Beneatha‚ her son Walter and his wife Ruth and their son Travis squeeze into a dilapidated two-bedroom apartment

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    In March of 1959‚ Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ debuted at the Barrymore Theater in New York. Being the first Broadway play directed and written by an African-American in over half a century‚ many were eager to attend a showing. People had many chances. A Raisin in the Sun was performed more than 500 times. This play won multiple awards such as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play of the Year. In addition to the many performances and awards the Hansberry play won

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    it would tear them up and put their family up to the ultimate test. In the end‚ the Youngers would realize that as long as they had each other‚ they may not reach The American Dream but at least they had family and respect for themselves. A Raisin in the Sun broadcasts a family that is striving to reach The American Dream‚ an aspiring idea to have a better life with a family‚ security‚ and wealth. In fact‚ a family is one of the most important goals in achieving The American Dream. Family comes first

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    What is Wealth? In a Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park there were a lot of things that ran almost parallel with both books. Of course‚ first would be the house that Lena bought moved into at the end of A Raisin in the Sun but even deeper than that. Both books touched some social subjects that at the time of A Raisin in the Sun’s release were rarely mentioned by an African-American especially a female African-American. The subject that grabbed my attention was that every main character had

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