A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. This play is about a lower class African American family dealing with their living conditions on the Southside of Chicago. The title of the play was inspired by the poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes. Hughes’ poem describes the differing paths people take in life. This idea is displayed throughout the play as every character has different aspirations in life and will do whatever they can to accomplish their goals. For this
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Raisin in the Sun Essay In life‚ people feel they are not important and valued without money. Walter Younger is no exception‚ he thinks that if he has money he has everything. Walter wanted to be a provider for the family and planned on doing so by investing in a liquor store with the insurance check from his dad’s death. However‚ he can’t because the money did not belong to him but it belongs to Mama. Later on his mother decides to give him the remaining insurance money and Walter entrusts it
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Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun comes to an end‚ do the Youngers‚ moving into an all white neighborhood‚ have a glimmer of hope in their future? For many years‚ even before the story begins‚ the Youngers seem to know what their future was going to consist of: working for the white man and cleaning their apartment that is constantly encumbered in filth. This drab thought of this family’s existence‚ generation after generation comes to an end when the Younger family receives $10‚000 in
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Frontina Taylor English Comp II Jaime Barrett Compare and Contrast A Raisin In The Sun Essay In the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ and 1961 movie written by Lorraine Hansberry and presented by Columbia pictures‚ one of the most important themes is the American Dream. Many of the characters have hopes and dreams. They all strive towards their goals throughout. However‚ many of the characters have different dreams that clash with each other. Problems seem to
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A Raisin in the Sun is written by Lorraine Hansberry. The author wrote this because when she was younger she experienced this. In this play‚ there are struggles that are going on. For example‚ discrimination and segregation. The family is currently living in a small apartment and are not rich but the characters Mama and Walter try to make everyone happy. The setting is in Southside Chicago. The two characters that have influenced the plot so far are Mama and Walter because they have been involved
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household‚ you have just received ten grand from an insurance check from a deceased parent. "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry is a story about a poor family who is living in the southside of Chicago and has just been given an insurance check from their father and Mrs.Younger’s (aka Mama) husband. The check was for $10‚000 which they have been trying to figure out what they are going to be doing with it. Mama‚ Beneatha‚ and Walter all have a dream of what they want to spend the money on but they
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16 November 2011 Your Version of Success In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry you go back in time to when segregation was still aloud. In this play you meet a cast of people with dreams of a better life. The American Dream‚ to be specific. This dream is portrayed differently for each character‚ all of which impact the play. Two of these character `s are Walter Lee Younger and Lena Younger. In Raisin in the Sun Mama and Walter’s American dreams conflict and impact the family
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Referring to the latest version of A Raisin in the Sun (2008) it is set on the Southside of Chicago‚ Illinois. In the film‚ the head of the household is Lena Younger (Phylicia Rashad)‚ who the family calls‚ “Mama.” Mama’s husband‚ Walter Sr. has passed away so a settlement for $10‚000 from his life insurance policy is being mailed to her. Walter Jr. (Sean Combs) and Beneatha (Sanaa Lathan) are Mama’s children and they believe the check should be given to either of them for medical school or an investment
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He uses five similes in Harlem: “like a raisin in the sun‚ like as sore‚ does it stink like rotten meat‚ like a syrupy sweet‚ like a heavy load”. Then he uses a metaphor: “or does it explode”. All of these comparisons make me image the things he is comparing. You can visualize‚ smell‚ taste‚ and feel these things. The point of this poem is what happens to a dream deferred. Lorraine Hansberry used this one line taken from the poem “Harlem” to compare the raisin to life. There was a lot of things
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Hansberry‚ A Raisin in the Sun. In Lorraine Hansberry’s drama A Raisin in the Sun the round characters‚ which are the Younger family is finding out the hard way that wealth can be found in other forms than money. In this play the low class Younger family is shown through bad experiences that material things are worthless. One of the main characters Lena Younger also known as Mama‚ lost her husband and is waiting for the arrival of the insurance check of ten thousand dollars. Mama is a retired
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