Brianna Gervickas February 20‚ 2013 Period 4 Analytical Essay Do you value your pride more than money? In the play‚ A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ An African American family is struggling in a inadequate worn down apartment trying to make a living. Mama‚ the eldest of the family‚ is going to receive a check for 10‚000 and the family is ecstatic for its arrival. Walter Lee
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Barrett Bleeden Period 2 Hope for the Future When the curtain falls and 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
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I attended a play called A Raisin in the Sun. The play took place at the Polk Theatre at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Nashville‚ TN and it was directed by Rene Copeland. A Raisin in the Sun was written by a woman named Lorraine Hansberry. The play is a reflection of Lorraine Hansberry’s childhood experience. She was the first African American woman to write a play that was performed on broadway. At the age of 34 she died from cancer. A Raisin in the Sun was a play that gave multiple
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that although the common belief is that reading will make us better people‚ it doesn’t mean anything to us unless we really know how to comprehend the book itself and allow it to influence our decisions. A text that applies to this idea is A Raisin in the Sun. It is just a normal book until you take it to a new realization and apply it to much more. Through this book‚ I have learned how characters are influenced by their surroundings‚ how pieces of the book connect to this quote‚ and how my life has
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Act Two‚ Scene 3: At this point in the play‚ Ruth and Bennie are packing up their belongings to get ready to move to their new home. Ruth tells Bennie about how things have gotten better between her and Walter as well as how they went out to the movies the previous night and held hands‚ which they haven’t done in a while. At that moment‚ Walter enters the room‚ turns a record on‚ grabs Ruth by the arm‚ and begins to joyfully dance with her. The two dance and have a wonderful with when the doorbell
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A Raisin in the Sun: Dependency “Weariness has‚ in fact‚ won in this room. Everything has been polished‚ washed‚ sat on‚ used‚ scrubbed too often. All pretenses but living itself have long since vanished from the very atmosphere of this room.”(23-24) A Raisin in the Sun is a play of dependency‚ where events are dependent on one other events. Monetarily‚ the Youngers depend on the insurance check to rescue them from the weariness and familiarity of their one room apartment. Between all the talk
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While Antigone by Sophocles and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry are very difference stories they have many similarities. Antigone is the about daughter of Oedipus trying to do what she believes is good. Her brothers have killed each other and while one gets a proper burial‚ the other is left to be eaten by wild animals. The reason he is not allowed to be buried is because King Creon believes he is unworthy of it. The main character Antigone defies Creon’s law and buries her brother anyways
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despair means ‘the complete loss or absence of hope’ which is what South Side Chicago mirrored in the novel A Raisin in the Sun. Just by looking around you could tell that all hope was lost when there’s widespread poverty on Chicago’s South Side. Also by taking a look around the Younger home you can see it in the faces of people -- and the furniture?! On the first few pages opening Act I‚ Scene I‚ the text says “Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from
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A Raisin in the Sun Essay Often in works of literature a character’s life is affected by a single act or mistake In the play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry ‚ the character Mama is affected by a mistake. When Mama’s husband dies‚ she receives a $10‚000 check. She decides to split the money three ways. One portion will go to purchasing a new house for the family‚ the second to her daughter Beneatha’s school and the rest for her son Walter to put in the bank. Her son’s plan was
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Beneatha‚ A Raisin in the Sun I used this quote to support my idea because she is telling everyone that she is going to be a doctor no matter. “thank everybody! And forgive me for ever
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