Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun By Lorraine Hansberry is realistic fictional drama in which the play’s title and the action of the character represent the play’s theme. The play focused on Black America 's struggles to reach the American Dream of life, liberty, and pursuing happiness during the 1950s and the 1960s. The idea of everyone having the chance to achieve a better life should exist for all. Hansberry created her title using a line from Langston Hughes’ poem “A Dream Deferred”. The original poem was…

Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, is about an African American family, the Youngers, who are surrounded by poverty, racism, and family conflict. The Youngers aspire to give themselves a better life to ultimately pass that down to future generations. Their conflict comes into play when the family receives an insurance check for $10,000 and has split decisions on what to do with it. Hansberry’s play suggests that poverty is a symptom of racism by using characters that seem to be of…

Lorraine Hansberry, African American playwright and writer, was the first African American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Lorraine Hansberry completed her first play in 1957, which opened in March of 1959, taking her title from Langston Hughes ' poem, "Harlem” and that play was A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry was a great playwright that lived a short life. Hansberry died at the age of 34 but her work lived on. A Raisin in the Sun put Hansberry in the ranks of being a great…

What happens to a dream deferred? Through the context of African American history, it tells the story of injustice and racial prejudice. Discussed in the domestic tragedy theatrical, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the story is told through the life of the Youngers, an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s as they are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. The message of the playwright was one shared among many African American activists…

Part One- Plot The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is about a struggling african american family in the 1950’s that just recieved a check for $10,000 and are trying to bring their life together. Before the play, Lena’s husband, who is the father of Walter and Beneatha Younger, passed away. His death was the inciting event because the insurance company will send a check to help their family. When the play starts, Walter's wife, Ruth, is cooking in the kitchen while their son,…

(Episcopal Church). Many blacks are discriminated for simply the color of their skin and being African American. Countless African Americans find it hard to obtain housing without being discriminated for it. Although the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry was written in 1959 and set in the 1950s, many themes and issues are still prevalent in today 's society. The themes and issues of housing discrimination and purely prejudice itself are extremely…

other people help you, it will be a lot harder than it has to be. Everyone has their own interpretation of happiness and how to achieve it, the Youngers choose to buy a house to make a step towards happiness. In the book A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry We have the Younger family. They receive a check for $10,000 for the death insurance of Big Walter. Everyone has their own suggestion on how to spend the money to help them in their pursuit of happiness. Beneatha suggests she spends it…

Throughout the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, division of race and family are prominent figures. In the time of this story, characters are faced with a choice of who they aspire to be. Within these struggles for unity, the author uses clothing to represent people's assimilation into different cultures. George's white shoes, Asagai's native African clothing, and Beneatha's transition into different style, represent who they are and the culture they want to represent. George…

In the poem Harlem, by Langston Hughes, Langston references a deferred dream which over time, either dies or flourishes. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the main characters, Walter, Beneatha, Mama, and Ruth are all experiencing a deferred dream. While Walter and Beneatha are willing to take any means necessary to fulfill their dreams, Mama and Ruth aren’t so ambitious. Mama (Walter and Beneatha’s mother) dreams of one day owning her own home, in a beautiful neighborhood,…

In the novel, “A Raisin In the Sun” written by Lorraine Hansberry, there are three main female characters. Even though they are all put into similar situations, their personalities result in different responses to the problem. The main protagonist in the novel is Walter Younger. He lives in his mother’s apartment with his mother, his sister, his wife, and his son. The apartment that hey live in is very small and has only one bathroom to share with all the families living in the building. Their…