written by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is a dramatic play set in Southside Chicago during the 1950s. The Youngers are a struggling family in the slums of Chicago. A Raisin in the Sun has many characters in it‚ but most of the characters are in the Younger family. The plot of the book focuses on four main characters: Beneatha‚ Walter‚ Lena‚ and Ruth. These characters create the major conflict in the story‚ while the minor characters simply push the story forward. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ Hansberry lets minor
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dreams we possess that guides us to follow our own tendencies. The idea of identity is closely linked to dreams‚ because in order to have a dream‚ one must possess self-awareness. The search for self and the journey for identity are central themes in Lorraine Hansberry’s play. A Raisin in the Sun‚ does not use the typical black vs. white scenario‚ it broadens the subject of race into a group of people and their position on the “social ladder.” Social injustice kept many African Americans from achieving
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The play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ takes place around 1945- 1950 in the South Side of Chicago. In the play‚ there are two characters that influence the plot the most. The two characters are Walter and Beneatha Younger. Both characters influence the plot in their own way. The author wrote this play to show that lives during this time period had been rough and stressful. In the play‚ Walter Younger influences the plot. Walter has an immense opinion and most of his actions make
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America has been affected by racism ever since slavery came to be. An example of racism would be a Caucasian man discriminating against an African-American man‚ solely based on the race of the African-American man. The United States‚ as a whole‚ has bettered itself in terms of racism‚ but this terrible trait has‚ and always will exist. Quite a few Americans still believe that African-Americans are inferior to Caucasians‚ and that they should still be slaves. In the fifties‚ blacks and whites could
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Hansberry writes‚ “Now the once loved pattern of the couch upholstery has to fight to show itself from under acres of crocheted doilies and couch covers which have themselves finally come to be more important than the upholstery” (23). Ruth can easily be compared to the couch in her living room as a woman who is overcome by how she feels about the Younger household and living conditions. Over the course of this play‚ The Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ Ruth changes from fed up to relieved
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Angela Olsen English 102 ONLN 3 Professor Thea Howey May 3‚ 2013 Female Gender in A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry was a forward thinker for her time in the 1950’s‚ which was evident in her writing. “It is believed that hidden behind her work was Hansberry’s own personal struggle with gender” (Wiener 10-11). After many years of marriage and eventually divorce‚ it was discovered that she was a closet homosexual (Wiener 11). Male and female gender roles are heated topics that have been
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In Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ “A Raisin in the Sun‚” she does a great job of intertwining Langston Hughes’ poem “Montage of a Dream Deferred‚” to incorporate her underlying theme of dreams. In his poem‚ Hughes asks "What happens to a dream deferred?" and then goes on to list the different things that might happen to a person if his dreams are put "on hold." His overall point is that whatever happens to a postponed dream is never positive. Meanwhile‚ the question Hansberry poses in her play is‚ "What
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Over the course of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the main character‚ Walter Younger‚ struggles with immense moral conflicts. As a result of Walter ejecting a white man from his house and‚ consequently‚ fighting racism‚ it becomes evident that he has matured and adopted the role of head of household. In the beginning of the play‚ it is shown that Walter selfishly dreams about providing for his family and releasing them from the demons of poverty. When Mama gains a great deal of insurance
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CLYBOURNE PARK Author Bruce Norris wrote the play “Clybourne Park” in response to the play “A Raisin in the Sun” written by author Lorraine Hansberry. It interprets fictional events set before and after the Hansberry play and is roughly based on historical events primarily focused in the city of Chicago. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize‚ it is a provocative new play about the volatile combination of race and real estate. This is the first piece so far this semester that was written
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Amanda Sarapochiello Period 4B 11.19.09 Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ is about an African American family who lives in Chicago and suffers from harsh issues of poverty in the 1950’s. The family does not have enough money to afford the house they are living in and they often have to make a lot of sacrifices. They cannot even give their son money when he needs it for school and their son was sleeping on a couch for a very long time and did not even have a room of
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