Food is not enough to sustain a person; it is not enough to fulfill one’s base desire with bread and beer. One needs a dream‚ a desire‚ a goal that can be achieved‚ and in the “Raisin the Sun” This is the American Dream‚ the desire to succeed and move up in the class system. Each of the characters has a dream to achieve. Walter dreams of making it big‚ Beneatha dreams of becoming a doctor‚ and Ruth’s dream is to move out of their old house into a nice home. The obstacles they face have much to do
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dreams come true. These ideas are necessary for each character in the book‚ “A raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun is about the Younger family struggling as African Americans to achieve their dreams in the 1950s. Walter lee younger wants to invest his father’s insurance money in a new liquor store and his sister Beneatha wants to pursue her dream to be a doctor. In the book‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorrain Hansberry the audience learns that dreams you dream alone won’t come
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In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry the characters Walter and Mama influence the plot the most. Walter feels as though nobody understands his dreams and he makes everyone feel bad about what they have done. While Mama buys a house for the family and it leads to a conflict between her and Walter separating the family even more than it already was. Walter is one of the most influential characters because he argues with or insults his family for not supporting his dream. One thing
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In the story A Raisin in the Sun‚ written by L. Hansberry‚ the Younger family resides in a small‚ beaten down home. In this family‚ only one member is well educated. Miss Beneatha is attending school and plans to become a doctor. Her mother‚ Lena‚ receives a life insurance check from her husband who has passed. Lena uses part of the check as a down payment on a new house for the family. She gives the rest of the check to her son‚ Walter‚ trusting him to put a portion of the money back for Beneatha’s
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It seems evident that the heroin in Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is Lena Younger. Throughout the play‚ she’s faced with an important decision to make; how to spend the 10‚000 dollars. Instead of thinking selfishly‚ she tries to do what’s best in the interest of the whole family. Lena Younger is the leader of the Younger household as well as the mother of Walter and Beneatha. She strains her family to have self-respect and to believe in themselves in order to accomplish their dreams. As time passed
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self-determination. But when Blacks attempt to achieve the American Dream‚ they are often pushed back‚ an idea where White supremacy‚ stereotype‚ and greed stand in the way of Blacks ever reaching their full potential. This is seen through the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ when the Younger family
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In Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun‚ the protagonist Walter is portrayed as stubborn‚ childish‚ and later determined to show his transition into manhood. Living in the Southside of Chicago‚ the play follows the Younger family’s daily struggles. The main struggle they go through is the passing of Mama’s husband Walter Senior. Due to his death‚ they get a $10‚000 insurance check‚ and they decide to buy a house and start Beneatha’s dream of becoming a doctor. While also helping out Walter’s dream
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acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ features this type of character in Walter Younger. Walter Younger‚ a man striving to push his family into the middle class‚ whether the attempt is risky or downright controversial. Some characters will make questionable decisions‚ and these decisions could lead to fortune‚ or failure. In a segregated 1950s Chicago‚ a small African-American family lives in a small 3 room apartment in a crowded apartment building. Award-winning A Raisin in the Sun‚ by
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The author of A Raisin in the Sun is known as‚ “...the youngest American‚ fifth woman and first black to win the award (New York Drama Critics Circle Award)‚” (Chicago Public Library). Not only did the author make the play a universal drama‚ “A Raisin in the Sun marked the turning point for black artists in professional theater‚” (Chicago Public Library). Lorraine Hansberry is an epitome to African American girls with dreams everywhere. She created a world that many minorities in 1950 experienced;
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A Raisin in the Sun (1959) by Lorraine Hansberry was produced in 1959 and foresees many of the issues that the African American populations were facing regarding their own identity. The Youngers are an extremely poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago that suffer from the racial tension between black and white in their everyday lives. Lena Younger‚ her daughter Beneatha‚ her son Walter and his wife Ruth and their son Travis squeeze into a dilapidated two-bedroom apartment
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