Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ she tells the value and purpose of dreams and how oftentimes dreams do get deferred. Hansberry got the title for the play based off of Langston Hughes’ famous poem A Dream Deferred. The language Hansberry uses reflects the deeper meaning of Hughes’ poem. Although the Younger women have lived in the same apartment for generations‚ they each face their unique trials and tribulations. Mama is faced with the decision of how to spend the money she received from her deceased
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mama. i believe this because in anyone’s life their mother would and should be the most important. She runs the family‚ what she says goes. whenever her kids seem stressed she can tell like when ever walter was trying to leave and got into a argument with his wife. Mama jumped in and talked to walter because she could tell he was not the same. Shes there to help guide her family now more then to help with anything. She gives advice and a hand when needed. The play is stronger with her in it living
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are the difficulties many people‚ especially African Americans‚ faced in the 1950s. Lorraine Hansberry‚ not only illustrates this struggle in A Raisin in the Sun‚ but faced the challenge in her own life. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ she writes about different generations “trapped in a Chicago apartment‚ unable to break an invisible barrier that keeps them from
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financial security. In the story A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Characters Walter‚ Beneatha‚ Mama‚ Ruth‚ and Travis all have dreams that they want to fulfill and finally have the opportunity to do so. Focusing on three of the characters whose dreams were made more apparent‚ Mama‚ Walter‚ and Beneatha all had very different dreams that were all resting upon the check of their deceased father and husband. Mama’s dream was to buy a home for her growing family‚ Walters dream was to invest in a liquor
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people alive. Even though these two characters seem the same‚ Lennie should actually be considered more optimistic than Walter because of the dream‚ their family‚ and how they are separated because Lennie displays a more optimistic person. Walter‚ being raised through racism and living through civil rights movement‚ his background was built in the times of segregation and racism. Walter‚ whose occupation is to chauffeur white businessmen around‚ dreams of a future where he can become financially stable
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said “Try not to become a man of success rather try to become a man of value.” A Raisin In the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry in nineteen fifty nine.The play explores the struggles of an African American family to achieve their dreams. In the play Walter Lee Younger Jr. the son of Mama(Lena) evolves throughout the trials and tribulations the family faces in the play. At the opening of the play we see Walter an ambitious man of thirty five years old‚ lacking in the knowledge of what it takes
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Some readers feels that “money” is the most important word in the play Raisin in the sun because it has the most influence on the Youngers within the play. Such as buying the new house that they want‚ having enough money for education purposes‚ and many other necessities. Money also has a huge impact on the Youngers. Although money in their mind is supposed to help them‚ it makes things harder for them. For example‚ when walter goes to pursue his dreams to open up a liquor store and he ends up losing
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Ottawa‚ April 18th‚ 2013 ENG4C By: Eumar Tovar COMPARATIVE REPORT In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and the discourse I have a dream by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. there are many similarities. These texts are strongly related to each other by three important topics such as Dreams‚ Barriers and Family‚ because they per se give the people the courage to face challenges in life. Dreams are represented in both texts as a part of strong desires to achieve personal
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Walter In the play Raisin in the Sun by Lorrain Hansberry there are quite a few characters that I can relate to without difficulty. The character I can relate to easily is Walter. Walter is a poor man who dreams big and always wants more for himself and his family. By dreaming big it also makes Walter very selfish and negligent. While he acts this way it causes a lot of pressure on the things that mean the most to him‚ his family and marriage. Throughout the play Walter‚ like a lot us in the
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men and how he dreams about a world where people can be in harmony with no division of color. The play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun”‚ relates to this subject in multiple facets centering around dreams. The play and speech take place in the same time period of the mid twentieth century‚ where color was a major divide in society. There are many similarities between the play “A Raisin in the Sun” and the speech “I have a dream”. One example of a similarity is that both center on a dream that they or a
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