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    Drama 160 Term Paper: Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun is a monumental play in the theatrical world. Produced in 1959‚ it became the first play written by an African-American woman to hit the stage and was later nominated for several Tony Awards. The play touched many controversial themes of the time including racial discrimination and poverty. The design of Raisin in the Sun‚ including scenic‚ costume‚ lighting‚ and sound elements‚ were crucial to developing the plot

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    out to go fishing but meet a girl that stops them in their tracks. They both fall in love with her but she refuses to go out with one of them. Although this is a major struggle in his life‚ Jake has to deal with many other internal problems. Hemingway uses these characters to describe the life of injured war veterans in the lost generation. The Sun Also Rises is a drama that sets two people apart because of a tragic accident that one could not overcome. The story begins as Jake Barnes‚ the protagonist

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    Paper A Raisin in the Sun‚ a play written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ embodies the struggles of a black family in the 1960’s living in Chicago. Everyone in the Younger family seems to have an ambitious dream that they are all trying to achieve with insurance money earned by Big Walter. Walter Lee Younger‚ the man of the family‚ is a motivated man that is unhappy with his job as a chauffer. He has big dreams of opening up a liquor store to become a businessman so he can diminish his family’s poverty

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    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 Younger is the most dynamic character in the book. Walter’s character develops from materialistic and greedy‚ to the

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    one another‚ hold different opinions. Whites and African Americans both have thought about one another through past racial events to drive up opinions against one another. A written play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ holds the feelings between African American and Whites before it even improved. Since the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ racial feelings‚ for both races‚ in equality

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    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‚ generation after generation comes to an end when the Younger family receives $10‚000

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    “Life for me aint no crystal stair”( Harlem by Langston Hughes) this is the theme throughout the story. Everyone’s dreams were pushed aside of put back for the greater good of the family‚ or for some outside obstacle they had to overcome. This poem shows the real meaning of the play because it showed the internal and external struggles each one of the characters had. First‚ a raisin in the sun is about the struggle through tough times and racism‚ people’s transformations‚ and following your dreams

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    “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 that happen in this play. The story

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    Madeleine Blanchard October 29th 2014 English 8-6 Mr. Chupka Fifty-six years ago A Raisin In The Sun exhibited many of life’s struggles during the fifties time period‚ but current society faces these same dilemmas. Six decades have proved that little change has been made in the areas of racism‚ abortion and poverty. In some ways the Younger family and the issues they dealt with in the play represent a microcosm of America today. Whether the topic is how abortion is still constantly making headlines

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    Dreams‚ hopes‚ plans‚ race‚ and pride these are just many of the themes in the play A Raisin in the Sun. The play is about the Youngers an African American family who live in the South Side of Chicago. The Youngers were a big family there was Ruth Younger‚ Travis YoungerWalter Lee Younger‚ Beneatha Younger‚ and Mama Younger. All of them lived in a small crammed apartment that was in a poor neighborhood. The Youngers got a check in the mail for $10‚000 and that was their chance to move into a bigger

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