A Raisin in the Sun Reading Questions Act I‚ Scene I 1. The stage directions say that the living room in the Younger apartment might he comfortable and well-ordered‚ but ’’weariness" has "won in this room." What physical details of the living room set show these qualities? 2. What details of the setting show that the apartment is crowded? 3. Walter’s wife‚ Ruth‚ is described as a pretty "girl‚" who is changing into a "set!tled woman." What has happened to change Ruth’s beauty? 4
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director Daniel Petrie portrayals the theme of it doesn’t matter how much money you have‚ if you don’t have the support of your own family you won’t be happy in the 1961 version of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun better than Kenny Leon in his 2008’s version. In the story A Raisin the Sun the family’s support is looked at as the most valuable thing in the story. There is an example of this when Walter -a man who talks about money the whole story- doesn’t want Karl Linder’s money to take the
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Journal – A Raisin in the Sun/ A Dream Deferred This poem resonated with me more so than any other so far. It starts out with a simple question about a dream that gets put off and the raisin is a metaphor for the dream or idea that is perished in the blazing sun. The writer uses such vocabulary to ignite all senses to describe the raisin as decaying‚ festering and stink like rotten meat. IT seems as so the dream is the source of pain for the writer and the ills that accompany the chasing
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When gender roles are swapped‚ whose heart‚ and sanity‚ will still survive? All through Hemingway’s childhood and his life he was described as a man’s man and he was the big tough guy‚ but that’s not the case in his novels. Throughout Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises‚ Hemingway shows‚ through the characters of Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes‚ that the pre-war gender roles are not entirely true anymore. Even Jennifer Blanch‚ the author of “Gender Identity and the Modern Condition in The
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A raisin in the sun (2008) Textual Analysis Task:- The film ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (2008) is the hybridity genre of comedy and a realist drama. Its setting is a small apartment in Chicago‚ in the 1950s at times of racism segregation and also segregation towards women. The situation is that the protagonist is the film wants to be rich. The target audience for this film would be from the age of 18+ as I feel it is directed more to the older people in society although the film is a PG. Its demographic
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A Raisin in the Sun Final Essay April 22‚ 2013 Honors English 9B When feeling hopeless‚ one may lose sight of their traditional values and chase flawed or unrealistic dreams. In the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ author Lorraine Hansberry‚ uses character Walter Lee Younger to demonstrate a misguided‚ materialistic alteration of the traditional American Dream. Walter Lee‚ in a misguided vision of money as the answer to all of life’s tests‚ forgets traditional family values and instead chases only
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two very different authors‚ who wrote two very different works. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about how prejudice and discrimination can lead to an innocent man being convicted of a crime he didn’t commit just because of his skin color. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about how the value of a family can overcome racism in a new town and allow a family to prosper‚ even in the worst conditions. However‚ both of these works deal with racism and discrimination in similar ways. Conversely‚ Harper Lee
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A Raisin in the Sun Everyone in America wants to achieve financial success in their life in one form or another. Sometimes living in a capitalistic society entices many to become too materialistic. This is most commonly referred to as the American Dream. For most Americans‚ this high status is very difficult to achieve. The play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ (written by Lorraine Hansberry) examines an African-Americans family’s struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving some
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Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun themes‚ symbols‚ and characters can be compared. Both A Raisin in the Sun and Julius Caesar were written for the stage; therefore their characters become more obvious and more thoroughly portrayed than in a book‚ for example. Even though‚ these works were written by far different authors and in different centuries their similarities and differences are evident. In both A Raisin in the Sun and Julius Caesar themes‚ symbols‚ and character
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In the poem‚ Hughes asks: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun? His lines confront the racist and dehumanizing attitude prevalent in the American society before the civil rights movement of the 1960s‚ that black desires and ambition were unimportant and should be ignored." Her play is arguably one of the
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