your life would be absolutely perfect? The fact is‚ a million dollars isn’t reality for the everyday average person. The average person works hard for a living barely scraping by. We are reminded of this throughout Lorraine Hansbury’s play A Raisin in the Sun. One of the main themes in this play is that money can’t buy happiness. The character who best conveys this theme is Walter Younger‚ a lean‚ intense young man in his middle thirties‚ who works as a chauffer in order to support his family. In
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Lorraine Hansberry’s realistic play A Raisin in the Sun portrays prejudice through the many complications of the Younger family. Walter Lee Younger‚ for example‚ is jealous of “them white boys sitting back and talking ‘bout things… sitting there turning deals worth millions of dollars” while he himself is a chauffeur for a rich white man. He is the biggest prejudice of all‚ as he is dissatisfied with himself‚ and his life. Walter Younger is unable to provide for his family in spite of his growing
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Lorraine Hansberry‚ in her novel A Raisin in The Sun powerfully conveys the dream of her character‚ Walter Younger. Presented by having him explicitly ask for help to complete his dream‚ by having Walter reach his dream then fail‚ then by having those dreams change and become something new. Transforming from a man wanting to purchase a liquor store with the money from his father’s death just so he can become more wealthy‚ to wanting to support his family in their act of moving to a white neighborhood
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Although they don’t appear as important characters‚ secondary characters serve an important purpose through the interactions they have with the main characters. The secondary characters we meet in A Raisin in the Sun all represent different aspects and people in the Younger family. George Murchinson and Joseph Asagai show us more about Beneatha‚ while Willy Harris shows us more about Walter‚ and Mr.Lidner and Travis show us more about the whole family. George and Joseph are Beneatha’s two boyfriends
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dream of being or doing something they truly aspire and it can make them accomplish it. Even though this is possible‚ people can experience not having the support from people that are in their everyday lives. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun” and the novel “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros‚ both authors convey the idea that women must work hard for their dreams of having a better future even when men do not support their idea like Beneatha when she is told by his brother
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"three-fifths" of a person‚ denied citizenship and separated from whites because they were believed to be inferior and less intelligent. Consequently‚ Jim Crow laws and other mandated societal segregation regulations were established‚ which kept the races apart and whites ignorant of what black culture and life was truly about. This ignorance was clearly present in the entertainment industry; African-Americans were generally portrayed as intellectually‚ economically‚ and culturally inadequate‚ and
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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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their future‚ or the future of their family. Everybody also has challenges that they have to overcome in order to make these hopes and dreams come true. An example of this can be seen in Lorraine Hansberry’s most notable and landmark play A Raisin in the Sun. This groundbreaking play is about the younger family who are a poor black family that lives on the Southside of Chicago. In this play Walter‚ Elaine‚ Beneatha have
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In Lorraine 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
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“America has given the Negro people a bad check”¹‚ this is thoroughly shown‚ along with other themes‚ throughout both A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Before the civil rights movement‚ and for some time after‚ blacks were given the short end of the stick‚ they had to fight for their dreams and they had to fight against racism. They were given next to nothing but they were still expected to ask the whites to “forgive [them] for ever
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