Lorraine Hansberry

The Younger's Family in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun, have faced many hardships in 1950s America. In the play, Hansberry writes about a family on the south side of Chicago, in a beat up, old apartment that is about as tired and worn out as the Younger’s are. The Younger Family goes through many trials and tribulations that are best represented by the symbolism with their tiny one window, the plant, mama's gifts, and the condition of the old and new house. The condition of the old house is tired and worn after many generations of the Younger’s living in their tiny “two” bedroom apartment. Hansberry describes the living room, where Travis sleeps, as tired saying that “they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many…

A Raisin In The Sun is a play written by esteemed author Lorraine Hansberry. This theatrical work describes the arduous struggles of an African American family in a racially segregated society of the 1950’s. Mama, the matriarch of the family is the mother of two adult children with different ideas in life. She receives life insurance for her deceased husband in the form of a ten-thousand dollar check. This check divides the thought processes of her family. Her and her children want to use it…

Irrevocable Bond with Humanity Due to a subtle action in A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the comparison to a loved one in “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day,” by William Shakespeare, and the continuing conflict in “The Birthmark,” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, these literary pieces of work prove that humanity is forever bound to nature and that no act of isolation or disconnection can break that bond. The environment and ecosystem that one lives in has a very profound impact on one’s…

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) is set in Chicago’s Southside and many social issues of the 1950’s are the themes of this play. This essay is about one of the major themes in the play, racism, and how the Younger family, a poor black family, experienced and resisted the racism in their society. The members of the Younger family had to deal with discrimination in the housing industry, their home and their jobs. In, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family bought a house in a…

Lorraine Hansberry was born on May, 19,1939 in Chicago. Lorraine Hansberry grew up in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the Chicago south side she was the youngest. Also one of the four children in her family. Lorraine Hansberry and her family of six moved into a white neighborhood when she was eight years old.They moved into a white neighborhood where they faced many racial discrimination. Lorraine Hansberry attended a predominantly white public school while her parents fought against segregation.…

Lorraine Hansberry was the author of a play called A Raisin in the Sun. The setting of this play was in Chicago, which is where Hansberry was born. The time era also had a lot to do with Hansberries personal life. She was born in 1930, which is around the same time as the play was taken place. Loraine Hansberry was a black women, in the play the main characters are black and a lot of the characters motives are surrounded by the fact that they are black. For a lot of Hansberries childhood, she…

Kylie Hashman Lorraine Vivian Hansberry Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was born on May 19,1930 in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents were Nannie and Carl Hansberry. She was the youngest of four children (fourth child). Her dad was a real-estate broker and her mom was a school teacher. In 1938, her family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by her neighbors. Instead of Lorraine enrolling in Southern Colleges she broker her family tradition and went to the University of Wisconsin in…

The Youngers became disillusioned with the American dream. Lorraine Hansberry, the author, shows an African American family in Harlem, 1960s struggling to make it in America. The family struggles because they can not get out of the poverty line, which is holding them back from achieving the American dream. They mostly became disillusioned with the American dream when they got a $10,000 check in insurance money and Mama bought the new house in a white neighborhood. When Mama bought the house…

The Younger family is worn-out and treading through their tiresome life in crowded quarters. The apartment that belongs to the Younger family is dirty and aged with many years of difficulties and experiences. Lorraine Hansberry uses symbolism to support the central idea that over time families endure struggles that can eventually be overcome. The dark and dismal apartment of the Younger’s shows the reality of their everyday life. Hansberry expresses, “ And here a table or a chair has been…

Dear: Ta-Nehisi Coates, My name is Carissa Pillay and in my English class we will be reading the play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry. We have read your article in class to give us a better understanding of what happened from the Case for Reparation, It really opened my eyes on how I saw the case for reparations. One of the quotes that was in the article that caught my eye was “So that was just one of my losses”. In this instance black people were referring to how land that was…