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    Raisin In The Sun Morals

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    people faced in the 60’s and 70’s in her play “A Raisin in the Sun”. It showcases a struggling Chicago family battling poverty‚ sexism‚ and racism. The play’s accurate representations lead to winning the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. However‚ one topic that the play seemed to brush over was the lifestyles of U.S. women in that time period. Career‚ education‚ and finances have been obstacles for women‚ unlike men. Back then‚ every woman was expected to marry in her early 20’s‚ start a family as

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    A Raisin in the Sun – Mama     Mama has dreams for her family to rise from poverty and live in a better and bigger place and also for them to continue to grow together as a family. Mama has a plant that she also cares for. She takes care of this plant as if it was one of her own children. Mama’s children also have their own dreams and their own plans on how to attain those dreams. The family’s competing dreams are emphasized by Hansberry’s recurring use of the motif--Mama’s plant.  In the

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    A Raisin in the Sun Essay Test To become successful‚ people have to be determined and have to work hard to achieve their goal. Setting goals and standards can help achieve and motivate a person to succeed. People have to have a positive attitude and the right personality traits. Sometimes there are obstacles that get in the way of dreams‚ such as social injustices. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ a play by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Beneatha Younger’s dream is to go to medical school and become a doctor. Beneatha

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    Raymond Lam Curtis Yu Matthew Chun Sophia Tsai Group #8 Literary Analysis-A Raisin in the Sun Symbolism “Eat your eggs”- In the story‚ as Walter was explaining to Ruth about his dream to own a liquor store; Ruth rejected him by telling him to eat his eggs. Through the heated conversation‚ Walter mentions how it was necessary for man to change his life but Ruth would just disregard him by telling him to “eat your eggs and go to work”. This shows how despite all the dreams that Walter has‚ Ruth

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    Struggling for the Dream in A Raisin in the Sun Set in a cramped apartment in poverty-striken Southside Chicago‚ Lorraine Hansberry‚ through realistic slang‚ accounts the struggles of five black family members battling against racism to attain middle-class acceptance during 1959. After Walter Younger’s business "partner" skipped town with a portion of the family’s $10‚000 inheritance money‚ the desolate son returns home to break the news to his family that their hopes for the future have been

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    Although they don’t appear as important characters‚ secondary characters serve an important purpose through the interactions they have with the main characters. The secondary characters we meet in A Raisin in the Sun all represent different aspects and people in the Younger family. George Murchinson and Joseph Asagai show us more about Beneatha‚ while Willy Harris shows us more about Walter‚ and Mr.Lidner and Travis show us more about the whole family. George and Joseph are Beneatha’s two boyfriends

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    A Raisin in the Sun - 5

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    grown and become dynamic. Dynamic is characterized as a constant change in activity or progress. Perhaps the most dynamic character in Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is Beneatha because of her change in identity‚ career‚ and love. The first reason why I believe she is the most dynamic character is because of her change in identity. During the beginning of the play Beneatha had straight hair‚ along with everyone else in her family that was a female. She enjoyed and did not mind her straight hair;

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    Raisin in the Sun reflects the author‚ Lorraine Hansberry; with the starring Younger family during the 1950s and 60s. Her life was riddled with controversy‚ from her upbringing to the different movements and clubs she participated in. Granting her the experience to reflect the conflict between blacks and whites. She merged the feminist movement‚ The Great Migration‚ and the redlining and covenants into her play with ease. Giving us the opportunity to reenact what it would have been like to live in

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    Raisin In The Sun Failure

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    in the same 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

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    Equality Back in the 1950’s Compared to Modern Time Chicago is a well known city for being called the“Windiest City”; Chicago is also very well know for their crimes‚ and equality issues. African Americans and Whites are the two primary races that hold these issues. Within the law‚ equality between both races has progressed over the years‚ although their feelings of equality between one another‚ hold different opinions. Whites and African Americans both have thought about one another through past

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