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    “A Raisin in the Sun” In the play that Lorraine Hansberry wrote‚ her tone was realistic. It was realistic because for example‚ they just so happened to move into a racially divided neighborhood and the last black folks to live their left because of the white people. According to the book they got “bombed out”. Many of the characters had their own tone though. Ruth Younger was a more about doing everything just to please Walter Lee making her tone caring. Lena Younger “Mama” was all about buying

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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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    Racism Essay Have you ever felt like you were getting treated unfair? Well in the book “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry and “Running From Racist” by Suzanne Seixas‚ everyone felt like they were getting treated unfairly because of their skin color. In both of the stories‚ there is racism in people’s homes and communities. In the novel A Raisin In The Sun‚ tThe neighborhood association tried to get the blacks not to move into the neighborhood they want to move in because everyone else

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    Lauren Gault Mr. Russell AP Literature 22 Feb 2011 A Raisin in the Sun The play and the production of A Raisin in the Sun are comparable in multiple ways. After reading the play and watching the movie‚ there are many things that don’t exactly match up to one another causing the audience to develop a bias about several things that could use some reviewing. With all intentions‚ Hansberry worked delicately to choose the right actors to fit the parts in the movie production. Although Hansberry

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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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    place in the subconscious of the human mind‚ and many times‚ humans are unaware that these dreams are taking place; however‚ as shown in A Raisin in the Sun‚ dreams often are at the forefront of the human mind and motivate those looking to follow them to do anything they can to achieve them. As analyzed using the Freudian literary theory‚ A Raisin in the Sun contains many examples of this theory‚ including each character’s individual goals and dreams and how the dreams are personified through the

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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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    Christopher Dueñas Professor Smith THE: 2000 31 May 2011 A Raisin in the Sun: Written Script Analysis A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is a playwright and also produced into a film production. The name of the play comes from a poem by Langston Hughes‚ which refers to a raisin in the sun as a dream that “dried up‚” or was never accomplished. The genre of this play is a tragedy‚ because the protagonist meets defeat in his greed with money and the family finds enlightenment from their new

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    over the proles and the Party members. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth‚ and he is a Party member. Until one day‚ his life is changed forever when he does something called thoughtcrime (an act of unorthodoxy). 2.) Hansberry‚ Lorraine. A Raisin in The Sun. New York: Random House‚ 1959. Print. This story takes place in the South side of Chicago. The main focus of the story is set on the Younger’s‚ who try their best to overcome numerous adversities. The main adversity that they have to overcome

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    Walter in “A Raisin in the Sun” has a problem with his family. Since Walter’s family is going through a depression‚ the reader can expect the Water Lee family is facing internal conflicts. An internal conflict is a problem that deal’s with a person’s emotions. Walter Lee has a major internal conflict with money which leads to other problems with his family.At the beginning of the play Travis who is Walter’s son wanted an amount of money but Ruth kept refusing to give him that amount of money but

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