“A Raisin in the Sun‚” Lorraine Hansberry‚ October 1994‚ 1950s Ruth Younger: Walter’s wife and Travis’ mother Walter Lee Younger: Dreamer‚ wants to be rich‚ and makes plans with friends to become wealthy Lena Younger: Walter and Beneatha’s mother. religious‚ moral‚ and maternal Beneatha Younger: Lena’s daughter and Walter’s sister. Attends college and dreams of becoming a doctor Travis Younger: Walter and Ruth’s son Joseph Asagai: From Nigeria‚ proud of his heritage
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Many characters in A Raisin in the Sun have dreams‚ personal goals that may or may not be feasible goals. Some of these dreams only really affect one person‚ while others would impact many people. Mama’s dream is to buy a new house for her and her family to live in. Of all of these characters with dreams‚ Mama has a dream that would most significantly impact the family for the better. Her dream will bring the family together‚ allow her to financially help others attain their dreams‚ and emphasizes
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Journal – A Raisin in the Sun/ A Dream Deferred This poem resonated with me more so than any other so far. It starts out with a simple question about a dream that gets put off and the raisin is a metaphor for the dream or idea that is perished in the blazing sun. The writer uses such vocabulary to ignite all senses to describe the raisin as decaying‚ festering and stink like rotten meat. IT seems as so the dream is the source of pain for the writer and the ills that accompany the chasing
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Lorraine Hansberry‚ author of the play A Raisin In The Sun‚ was the first ever African American woman to ever have a play published and later have it performed on Broadway. Hansberry was born on May 30th 1930 in Chicago Illinois into a middle class family where she lived with her grandmother who was a freed slave‚ her father‚ mother and the 3 of her siblings. Her father was a very successful real estate broker and her mother was a teacher. Once Lorraine was 8 years old‚ her family moved into a white
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In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun‚ she focuses her dramatic plot on the domestic affairs of an African-American family: the Youngers. However‚ in order to capture the complexity of the family’s financial and social reality‚ Hansberry offers a multitude of perspectives with her characters that strive to accomplish their own dreams‚ yet refuses to condemn or commemorate the actions of the characters to better their situation. It is this refusal‚ on the playwright’s part‚ that allows characters
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two very different authors‚ who wrote two very different works. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about how prejudice and discrimination can lead to an innocent man being convicted of a crime he didn’t commit just because of his skin color. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about how the value of a family can overcome racism in a new town and allow a family to prosper‚ even in the worst conditions. However‚ both of these works deal with racism and discrimination in similar ways. Conversely‚ Harper Lee
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Randolph-Chernis Course: HUM3310: Interpretation of Fiction Assignment: “A Raisin in the Sun” Research Paper Due Date: 02/07/15 Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun: The comparison of analysis The struggle of equality between black and white communities has been a long and tiresome road. Since Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” is a conflicting short story‚ play‚ and film many people has analyzed Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” and have come up with different views or understandings as
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A Raisin in the Sun Reading Questions Act I‚ Scene I 1. The stage directions say that the living room in the Younger apartment might he comfortable and well-ordered‚ but ’’weariness" has "won in this room." What physical details of the living room set show these qualities? 2. What details of the setting show that the apartment is crowded? 3. Walter’s wife‚ Ruth‚ is described as a pretty "girl‚" who is changing into a "set!tled woman." What has happened to change Ruth’s beauty? 4
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director Daniel Petrie portrayals the theme of it doesn’t matter how much money you have‚ if you don’t have the support of your own family you won’t be happy in the 1961 version of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun better than Kenny Leon in his 2008’s version. In the story A Raisin the Sun the family’s support is looked at as the most valuable thing in the story. There is an example of this when Walter -a man who talks about money the whole story- doesn’t want Karl Linder’s money to take the
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Everyone has dreams of their own. In the play “A raisin in the Sun” various topics were included such as race‚ pride‚ family and more. All the main characters in this play seemed to have big dreams of their own. This play was inspired by Langston Hughes‚ an American poet. He wrote the poem “Harlem”‚ which inspired Lorraine Hansberry along with her own personal life experiences to write this play. There are five family members living in a small‚ cramped space and share a bathroom with two other families
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