Lorraine Hansberry

Plato once said, “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” This quote can relate back to a play called A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. It is about the Youngers, a black family living in the 1940s. They receive money from an insurance company after the death of a family member; the money begins to change the family. One person who changes is Walter, a man who, at the beginning of the play, is irresponsible and childish. Mama gives Walter some of the money to…

In the play A Raisin in the Sun wrote by Lorraine Hansberry was the first black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics’ Circle award. The play has earned accolades from Broadway as well, winning Tony Awards in 2004 and 2014, including Best Revival of a Play. In 1938, Hansberry family moved to a white neighborhood and was violently attacked by neighbors. They refused to move until a court ordered them to do so, and the case made it to the Supreme Court. South Side Chicago…

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, is an African American family living in the 20th century in a cramped apartment, dealing with racial prejudice and discrimination. My knowledge of federal housing policies and real estate practices throughout the 20th century enhances my understanding of the Younger family’s housing troubles by improving my perception of the average black family’s living conditions and struggles against segregation. In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, factors…

Sejal Agarwal Grade 10 Mr. Minicozzi New Historicist Biographical Lens Lorraine Hansberry, an African-American playwright and author, wrote her very first play when she was only 27 years old. Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is best analysed by the New Historicist Biographical lens as the play’s plot and mood is greatly influenced by the author’s personal experience with housing and economic conditions, making it more authentic and real. One may argue that the New Historical lens…

About 30% of women in the 1950’s say they felt obligated that they were made to work as a ‘Housewife.” From this, 29% of those women were African American. As shown in the Book, “A Raisin in the Sun,” by Lorraine Hansberry, many topic such as Racism, Feminism and following your dreams are influenced in the text by The Journey Archetype, Historical Lens, and a Biographical Lens. By this, Readers gain the ability to analyze the text effectively and with deeper meaning. Both a historical and…

Troubled Facade Few modern plays capture the essence of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun galvanizing idealism, prompting the prevailing question of black identity perplexing African Americans. Set in the backdrop of widespread discrimination and glaring racism, A Raisin in the Sun remains as Hansberry 's legacy to the continuing struggle for racial justice and decency in America. Although white readers may have misinterpreted Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun as a universal…

In the play Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry the effects of colonialism is a theme that is irrevocably present throughout the plot. The play is set in a fictional country in Africa and it depicts in detail the results of European presence. Although the setting and characters were fictional the story line followed and contained various realistic situations and issues that existed and continues to exist in colonized countries. Some major issues that are presented in the play that transcends…

The Raisin In The Sun was a play written in 1959 by Lorraine Hansberry. She was the first black woman to write a play that got produced on Broadway. This play was not destined for success but despite the critics it had became one of her most well known plays. The written play is different from the movie in a few ways. Some of the major parts in the written play are not in the movie and vice versa. Even though many occurrences in the play are different from the movie, there are also many…

“Raisin in the Sun” Hansberry takes you into a cramped little apartment to show you that big dreams can live in even the smallest most oppressed places. Hansberry, shows the struggles and dreams of a black family and each member and where they are coming from and why it wasn’t always possible for those dreams to be fulfilled in pre-civil rights America. Hansberry shows that one family can have many different aspirations and that this can breed conflict. Maybe the best thing Hansberry teaches in…

Lorraine Hansberry wrote many speeches, plays, reviews, articles but she is most noted for her most well known for a play, which was based off a few short lines from Langston Hughes poem Harlem. “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” The play “A Raisin in the Sun”, was also based on Hansberry own experience as a young African-American woman living in a white neighborhood. The play tells the story of a lower-class African-American family that struggles…