On March 11, 1959 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, where it won the New York Drama Circle Award for best American play of the season, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1959) has established a the place in the American canon of classic plays. The classic play was made into a successful movie that adapted a Tony Award Winning in the 1973. A Raisin in The Sun shows the effect of racial prejudice on an African-American family desires and dreams. The play focuses on the characters of Mama, Beneatha, Walter, Ruth, and Travis, the Younger family, who all lives in a two-bedroom apartment located in Chicago. They lose Big Walter, a family member, Who leaves the family to inherit a $10,000 life insurance payment. The family
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The Young family living in the rundown Chicago house decide move into an all-white neighborhood, Clybourne Park. The head of the Youngers new neighborhood, the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, sends Karl Linder to influence them to not move. Mr. Linder advises them to stay where they are because the whites are not racist but it is better when they are segregated. Linder bribes them to move and questions them why they want to move, but Walter tells hims we are moving, because this is what grandpa wanted. Watler, as a black American, should have the same right to live the American dream as white Americans. Mr. Linder and the people of neighborhood only see the color of the Younger family’s skin, and Walter wants them to see them as just another family on the block. Walter’s son, Travis, tells Linder that he is the sixth generation in his American family. Walter includes that knowing that information they're not strangers in this country. In addition, to issues of black Americans, the play helps show the relationship between black Africans and black Americans. Lena, the mother of Beneatha, only sees Africa for the Christian missionaries. As for Beneatha, she sees way more in this continent. Beneatha has relationships with two men, Joseph Asagai, a Nigerian student, and George Murchison, the son of wealthy businessman. Her relationship shows the struggle to find her character as an African-American women. Beneatha decides to show her blackness through her hair. First, she chemically straightened her hair to look black American. After Joseph Asagai showed up, she decides to cut her hair to be more “black”. She starts growing a Afro and wearing clothes that Joseph brought her from Africa. Beneatha mimics Oriental mannerisms and thinks they are African. This shows her ignorance of Nigerian culture. African is just an idea to her,
The Young family living in the rundown Chicago house decide move into an all-white neighborhood, Clybourne Park. The head of the Youngers new neighborhood, the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, sends Karl Linder to influence them to not move. Mr. Linder advises them to stay where they are because the whites are not racist but it is better when they are segregated. Linder bribes them to move and questions them why they want to move, but Walter tells hims we are moving, because this is what grandpa wanted. Watler, as a black American, should have the same right to live the American dream as white Americans. Mr. Linder and the people of neighborhood only see the color of the Younger family’s skin, and Walter wants them to see them as just another family on the block. Walter’s son, Travis, tells Linder that he is the sixth generation in his American family. Walter includes that knowing that information they're not strangers in this country. In addition, to issues of black Americans, the play helps show the relationship between black Africans and black Americans. Lena, the mother of Beneatha, only sees Africa for the Christian missionaries. As for Beneatha, she sees way more in this continent. Beneatha has relationships with two men, Joseph Asagai, a Nigerian student, and George Murchison, the son of wealthy businessman. Her relationship shows the struggle to find her character as an African-American women. Beneatha decides to show her blackness through her hair. First, she chemically straightened her hair to look black American. After Joseph Asagai showed up, she decides to cut her hair to be more “black”. She starts growing a Afro and wearing clothes that Joseph brought her from Africa. Beneatha mimics Oriental mannerisms and thinks they are African. This shows her ignorance of Nigerian culture. African is just an idea to her,