A Raisin In The Life Of A Slave Girl: An Analysis

The Books A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs can be implemented to the idea of the poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes as the books are about dreams/wishes, hard lives, and running; be it literal or figurative. The poem A Dream Deferred tells of speculation regarding what occurs if a dream is deferred or put off. It tells of how if someone puts off a dream then it will disappear be it by drying up "like a raisin in the sun" or by fading away from any given persons' memory. Applying this to the books shows that numerous characters in both A Raisin in the Sun and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl have dreams or wishes. Characters like Beneatha from A Raisin in the Sun or Linda from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl have similar dreams both want to escape. In the case of Beneatha, it is figurative and …show more content…
This includes Linda and William as the parents of the two slaves died. Applying that to the poem A Dream Deferred that a dream should be pursued or it disappears. The only problem with that dilemma is that the closer someone or something gets to a goal the harder it is to reach. This is shown when Linda is in New York and is pursued. Using the characters in the book A Raisin in the Sun there is Lena, Ruth, Walter, and Beneatha who have to work hard. The dream of Walter changes after his friend Willy steals the money and Beneatha has to change her dream as the money for school was gone. Using the poem A Dream Deferred it can be shown that many dreams are deferred in both of these books and adapting is needed. When adapted many dreams are no longer deferred and can be accomplished. Depending on the type of person the characters depend on what happens to the dream deferred. With Walter, it explodes and with Lena, it dries