The play “A Raisin in The Sun” by Loraine Hansberry is about an African-American family living in Chicago. An opportunity for the family to escape the poverty comes when the family receive an 10,000 insurance check. Everyone has something different they hope to do with the money so that they can fulfill their dreams. The main theme in the play “A Raisin in the sun” is about the value and importance of having hopes and dreams, the main characters all fight to deal with the oppressive circumstances that rule their life during this time. Each member of the younger family has a separate dream and all struggle to reach them. Much of the families’ happiness is related to how they are doing to reach these dreams. The importance of these dreams are shown throughout the play through the use as literary devices such as symbolism, metaphors, and allusion.
The play starts off putting the idea of the importance of dreams in your head with the …show more content…
The plant is a representation of Mama’s dreams that she has for her kids. The perseverant plant continues to grow despite the poor environment, just as the characters continue to struggle with their dreams. This shown in the play when Mama says ‘They spirited all right, my children. Got to admit they got spirit—Bennie and Walter. Like this little old plant that ain’t never had enough sunshine or nothing’ (Hansberry, 938). The value of dreams is shown through how Mama takes care of the plant. She continues to care for and nurture the plant, as she does her children. The plant also symbolizes Mama’s own dream to be a gardener. She keeps the plant as a remind and in hope that one day she will be able to have her own garden. This is said in the play by Mama that the plant is the closes she has ever gotten to having her own garden (Hansberry, 938). The care Mama puts into the plant shows that she will never give up on her dream, nor her dream for her
The play starts off putting the idea of the importance of dreams in your head with the …show more content…
The plant is a representation of Mama’s dreams that she has for her kids. The perseverant plant continues to grow despite the poor environment, just as the characters continue to struggle with their dreams. This shown in the play when Mama says ‘They spirited all right, my children. Got to admit they got spirit—Bennie and Walter. Like this little old plant that ain’t never had enough sunshine or nothing’ (Hansberry, 938). The value of dreams is shown through how Mama takes care of the plant. She continues to care for and nurture the plant, as she does her children. The plant also symbolizes Mama’s own dream to be a gardener. She keeps the plant as a remind and in hope that one day she will be able to have her own garden. This is said in the play by Mama that the plant is the closes she has ever gotten to having her own garden (Hansberry, 938). The care Mama puts into the plant shows that she will never give up on her dream, nor her dream for her