A Raisin in the Sun (Integrative Reflective Essay) February 12‚ 2010 Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19‚ 1930 – January 12‚ 1965) was an innovative pioneer who broke down many barriers in her short life. The youngest of four children‚ she was born in Chicago‚ IL to Carl and Nannie Perry Hansberry. Her parents were well educated social and political activists who exposed their children to Afro centric ideology throughout their lives. Her father‚ a successful real estate developer and entrepreneur;
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their goals.There is more than one movie of Raisin in the sun but the black and white is the best. All the others movie they take out some of the important scene and then they don’t portray what Lorraine Hansberry’s vision was of her experience in Chicago.The black and white movie best portrays Lorraine Hansberry’s vision of her experience in Chicago during the 1940s because it
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How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? A Raisin in the Sun by: Lorraine Hansberry Word Count: 1056 A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry primarily involves the story of a particular social group: a family of an African-American living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. The beginning of the play tells us that the Younger family is waiting for the $10000 insurance money that they will get from the death of Mamas’ husband; afterwards the story focuses
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born May 19‚ 1930 in Chicago‚ Illinois the youngest by seven years‚ of four children. Her father‚ Carl A. Hansberry‚ is a successful real estate broker‚ and a civil right activist. Her mother‚ Nannie Perry‚ is a schoolteacher who entered politics and became a ward committee woman. When Lorraine was eight‚ her parents moved to a white neighborhood where the experiences of discrimination led to a civil rights suit that they won. The granddaughter of a freed slave and deeply
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Frontina Taylor English Comp II Jaime Barrett Compare and Contrast A Raisin In The Sun Essay In the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ and 1961 movie written by Lorraine Hansberry and presented by Columbia pictures‚ one of the most important themes is the American Dream. Many of the characters have hopes and dreams. They all strive towards their goals throughout. However‚ many of the characters have different dreams that clash with each other. Problems seem to
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Harper Lee and Lorraine Hansberry are 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
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displays of ignorance and stupidity that make people wonder if progress is being made at all. Lorraine Hansberry‚ the praised playwright behind A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window‚ has experienced both the good and bad aspects of humanity and expresses it through her work. Although the majority of the characters and plot of A Raisin in the Sun suggest that humanity is repetitive‚ Hansberry uses some of her other characters‚
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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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in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted on Broadway in 1959. It was the first Broadway play written by a black playwright. The title comes from the poem "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes. The play portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers‚ an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. The theme expresses the importance of dreams and how achieving those dreams can come with various obstacles and struggles. Hansberry uses many literary elements
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truths exposed adequately about their customs and beliefs in order to dispel the stereotypes. Some of the artist that benefited from this social movement were Langston Hughes‚ Countee Cullens‚ Margaret Walker‚ James Baldwin‚ Alice Walker‚ and Lorraine Hansberry. However‚ these are just a very minute percentage of the art population. For these artist‚ Morgan believed that “Social Realism became the vanguard in the African American struggle for equality and racial injustice in the Depression Era in America
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