As I read and studied the play A Raisin in the Sun‚ it really engaged me and exposed so many issues that were relevant in black Chicago of the late 1950’s. The play written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is about the Youngers‚ a black family living in poverty in the slums of Chicago. There is segregation at this time. They are faced with a big decision on how to spend the $10‚000 of insurance money that was left to Lena the matriarch of the family by her late husband. After an encounter with the
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come to be more important than the upholstery” (23). Ruth can easily be compared to the couch in her living room as a woman who is overcome by how she feels about the Younger household and living conditions. Over the course of this play‚ The Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Ruth changes from fed up to relieved‚ content to concerned‚ and finally from concerned to satisfied. In the beginning‚ she is sick of everything‚ and events change her feelings to be calmer. Near the middle‚ Ruth goes
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The play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ takes place around 1945- 1950 in the South Side of Chicago. In the play‚ there are two characters that influence the plot the most. The two characters are Walter and Beneatha Younger. Both characters influence the plot in their own way. The author wrote this play to show that lives during this time period had been rough and stressful. In the play‚ Walter Younger influences the plot. Walter has an immense opinion and most of his actions make
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Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun explores the universal ideas of family‚ dignity‚ and hope. Hansberry set her play in an old‚ once well-furnished and loved apartment in Southside Chicago after World War II. It is the story of an African American family’s struggle to prioritize futures and dreams and decide whose dream is most prevalent; once the family makes the choice to purchase a home with part of the money‚ they face an entirely new plight. One of the major themes of A Raisin in the Sun is the need
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channeled her anger to a lot of her writings. While Hansberry and her husband Nemiroff were entertaining their friends‚ Burt D’Lugoff and Philip Rose found the play intriguing and made an offer to produce the play on Broadway. The play of A Raisin in the Sun was like no other at that period time‚ the story behind it was about a black family living in the slums of Chicago. They were left to figure out how to spend the ten thousand dollars‚ as each family member were having difficulties on what to
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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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The Blind Desperate Man Walter Lee is a desperate man‚ shackled by poverty and prejudice‚ and obsessed with a business idea that he thinks will solve all of his economic and social problems. He thought the novel is looking for ways to carry his family on and give them every material thing they want. He is desperate because he sees the other people with economic resources while his family is struggling to move on. He is the perfect example of the mid twentieth-century men who believe they are the
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In the play “A Raisin in the Sun” the reader can see that the characters have a dream because they are waiting on the insurance check to get there so the family could do what they wanted to with the money. The dreams that the family has is to be able to make life easier for them by Walter wanting to open up a liquor store‚ while Beneatha wants to become a doctor. But their mother has other plans of how she wants to use the money. For them being black was one of the biggest struggles because they
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A Raisin in the Sun /Lorraine Hansberry ——“Historical achievement” by James Baldwin Historical and cultural contexts: 1. Lorraine Hansberry‚ the youngest American playwright at her 29-year-old‚ and she is the first black writer and the fifth woman who won the price. 2. This play brought African American into the theater and onto the stage 3. The play reflected a historical and cultural reality previously ignored by dramatists‚ and the things happened in the play were like many ordinary African
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Raisin In The Sun Compare and Contrast A Raisin in the Sun is a play about the Youngers family who lived in the South Side of Chicago during the 1950s. During the first scene the Youngers’ are waiting for the check from the now dead Mr. Youngers’ life insurance policy totaling $10‚000. Each character/family member has a different idea about what should be done with the money. The main characters within the story include Mama‚ Walter Lee (Mama’s son)‚ Ruth (Walter’s wife)‚ and Beneatha (Mama’s daughter)
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