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    In the book A Raisin in the Sun the author highlighted the values of a society through the characters who were alienated from the society because of their gender‚ race and class. The younger family current condition and living condition motivated ‚to get a house in a all white neighborhood knowing that her family wouldn’t like it. Living in poverty motivated him to attempt to open his own liquor store. Beneathas current condition based on society stereotype when to simply be a nurse motivated her

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    better place. While other people dream of horrible things that could ruin their lives and others. So today when we look at these three different pieces we will analyze the different types of dreams and the way they affected people. In the play A Raisin in the Sun

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    A Raisin in the Sun is a very interesting play about a struggling black family in the 1900’s who just lost an important member of their family. When Walter Sr. passed away he had a 10‚000 dollar life insurance policy that was left to his family. During this play the family has to figure out where and what to do with the money. Each of the characters in this play A Raisin in the Sun‚ have a different view about what money will do for their lives. Everyone in the play except for a few characters

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    A Raisin In The Sun‚ is a book about a family‚ well‚ one family in particular. The Younger family is a rather normal African American family. They all live together in a little apartment‚ and they all have many struggles to face daily. Walter Lee Younger‚ is a limousine driver‚ and is not liking his job‚ he wants to own and operate a liquor store to get more money‚ and to have a better life‚ every morning‚ his wife Ruth makes him eggs. Every time Walter brings up his dream‚ Ruth quiets him with

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    The play A Raisin in the sun is about an African American family with individual dreams. Mama‚ Beneatha and Walter all have different dreams‚ but are relatively all the same. One character in the book who is passionate about her dreams is Mama. Mama is in charge of the household. Mama’s dream is not for herself‚ but for her family. She dreams of giving her family the best life she can give them. All Mama really wants is for everyone to succeed and to fulfill their own dreams to live a happy life

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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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    In fiction‚ this can be represented by a scene in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ in which a moving family of African-Americans are rejected by the existing residents of their destination. They even go so far as to send a man to say that they aren’t wanted‚ but they can move into this lovely all-black

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    variety of different types of stereotypes taken forth‚ although the discussion that caught my eyes is the story “Raisin in the Sun.” This represents the characters identity also a group of members in stereotype. In characters we have Walter Lee Younger‚ who is the man that always wanted dreams of making money‚ and Lena Younger (Mama) who always wanted to have a house. Then there is Beneatha Younger who wants to go to college to become a doctor‚ George Murchison who is a rich boy going to college and

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    individual goals which they must work a lifetime for to achieve. In Langston Hughes’ poem‚ Dream Deferred‚ he asks rhetorical questions about how a withheld dream can corrupt and negatively change the mind of a man. The poem relates to the movie‚ “A Raisin in the Sun (2008)” by Kenny Leon‚ since the movie answers the rhetorical questions in the poem by showing scenes of how the dreams of Walter Lee Younger corrupted his mind and made him lose his sense of personality/humanity. A dream that seems impossible

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    the 1950’s a civil rights movement was sparked. The push for equality led to an idea of an idyllic society in the minds of third world citizens. These third world citizens want to become “Americanized” but is the reality assimilation what these foreigners expected? Immigrants come to America with little experience hoping to find success‚ when actually they are put in the lower ranks of society and are suppressed by a racial barrier. In a novel by Lorraine Hansberry‚ A Raisin in the Sun highlights

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