Raisin In The Sun

Improved Essays
The title of the play “A raisin In The Sun” was a quote from the poem “A Dream Differed” it tells about time of the great depression when dreams dries up like in the play “A Raisin In The Sun”. This poem is asking what do we do when we put our dreams aside. The play is about how the characters feel when the do or don’t achieve their dreams.
Mama has an amazing dream to move her family out of the ghetto. She wants to move into a nice house with a nice yard so her kids can play. There are many ways in this story her dreams are differed. One way is when her family has to move into a small apartment that the Youngers still live in. that’s not what she wanted for her family. Another way is that mama became too busy to fulfill her dreams, she all

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    A Raisin in the Sun Title Controversy; Emotion v. Plot Titles are not to be taken lightly as they are what a reader keeps in mind throughout a piece. “Mother to Son” and “Harlem” are both written by Langston Hughes and portray the struggles of maintaining a dream during difficult times. “Mother to Son” uses the extended metaphor of a staircase that parallels the struggles and overall actions in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, while “Harlem” uses graphic images in order to form a well developed motif and mood of the idealistic dream, which is matched in the play. As a title is meant to add to a piece of work, and enhance a certain idea the author deems significant, Lorraine Hansberry contemplated using the title The Crystal…

    • 1446 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The title of the play came from the American poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, because it describes the fate of postponed dreams. Both the play and the poem show similar themes and recurring traits. The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry mirrors the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes as the characters Beneatha, Mama, and Walter come to realize their dreams by the end of the play. Bennie Younger had achieved what she had wanted the whole play, the right to be independant and by doing so, represented the poem “Harlem”. With a little encouragement from her friend Asagai, Bennie started to enjoy her roots and being unique.…

    • 798 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Raisin In The Sun Mood

    • 214 Words
    • 1 Pages

    In the book “ A Raisin In The Sun” Act Two Scene Three Starts off With the Youngers preparing to move into their new home in Clybourne Park. The mood of the family is incredulously different than the scenes before it. The family is all happy and excited that they are moving. At this part ruth says “Honey- I’m going to run a tub of water up to here… And i'm going to sit … and sit… and sit.…

    • 214 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Money plays a major role in society, from income to loans to even insurance money. It comes in various currencies, amounts, and forms. Money can serve as a life saver or a stressor depending on how it’s perceived. In the play A Raisin in the Sun, the arrival of a $10,000 insurance check is key to each family member in the Younger household and while the few typical readers focus on the money, the author Lorraine Hansberry influences the audience's response with character vs conflict, inner conflict, and obstacles to be faced. A Raisin in the Sun portrays conflict to be an obstacle in the way of a character getting what they desire.…

    • 487 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Raisin In The Sun Mama

    • 1248 Words
    • 5 Pages

    A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, an African-American family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s struggling to support themselves each and every day from paycheck to paycheck. When the play opens, the Youngers are waiting to receive an insurance check which comes from the deceased Patriarch of the Younger family, Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Mama and Walter have an idea as to what he or she would like to do with the money they are about to receive. Each member in the Younger family are having internal strive with wanting to improve their lives for the better without thinking about the consequences of their actions or considering what the other person has to say. However, the person who is having…

    • 1248 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Both Trifles and A Raisin in the Sun convey a message on how life’s hardships can influence one’s path. Both of these plays act on the premise that life has many forks in the road but it is the how people react to those hardships that control one’s route. These two plays, however, have opposite theme’s regarding the daily struggles people face. Although both the Younger family in A Raisin in the Sun and Mrs. Wright in Trifles endure great hardship, the Youngers illustrate how family sustains a person, while Mrs. Wright illustrates how isolation destroys a person.…

    • 837 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) is set in Chicago’s Southside and many social issues of the 1950’s are the themes of this play. This essay is about one of the major themes in the play, racism, and how the Younger family, a poor black family, experienced and resisted the racism in their society. The members of the Younger family had to deal with discrimination in the housing industry, their home and their jobs. In, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family bought a house in a neighbourhood which largely houses white people.…

    • 1222 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Firstly, A Raisin in the Sun depends greatly on the presence of the Younger family’s dreams; each family member has distinct dreams and intend for them to come true. For instance, Walter is determined to be self-sufficient and run the liquor store, resulting in the ability to supply for his family. This is seen in Walter’s monologue about what will…

    • 1028 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tori Robinson April 2, 2015 Ms.Mazaheri A Dream to Come True Lorraine Hansberry was an African American Playwright and civil rights activist. Ms. Hansberry was also the first African American women to write a play that were performed on Broadway. “A Raisin in the Sun” can be considered a significant milestone for African American in the United States. Lorraine Hansberry attains the title “A Raisin in the Sun” from the poem “Dream Deferred” written by Langston Hughes.…

    • 1600 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    lklore In The Play A Raisin The Sun Folklore is the use of traditions in story telling that are inclusive of the beliefs, the customs and the culture of a people that are passed from one generation to the other. Folklores forms an integral part of the culture that assist transmit information through the word of mouth. There is the use of the folklore in the black vernacular used in the throughout the play to broach important issues and also conflicts such as the poverty, discrimination and also the very construction of the African American identity. To start with is the title of the play, A Raisin in the sun.…

    • 2004 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is set in Chicago’s Southside between World War 2 and the 1950s. During this time period there was many segregation issues for black people. This play has many characters but there is only two that influenced the plot the most, these characters are Walter and Mama. Mama is the mother of Walter and Beneatha, the grandmother of Travis, and the mother-in-law of Ruth.…

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Raisin In The Sun Tragedy

    • 1625 Words
    • 7 Pages

    A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry that debuted March 11, 1959. The play is written about a family that is living in Chicago in the midst of predudism and are barely holding on. From start to finish we see the characters change not by choice but because they realized they had to. The genre of the play is definitely a tragedy that ends with a turn of events to create a happy ending. The tone of the play is not consistent for the most part.…

    • 1625 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    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 written in 1951 about Harlem.…

    • 1388 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Mama explains to Walter that she now knows that in order make him happy and give him something to work for, she needs to provide him with the tools to build a proper life for himself. She says, “Listen to me, now. I say I been wrong, son. That I been doing to you what the rest of the world been doing to you. Walter --…

    • 764 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Part of her dream of being a doctor includes being an independent woman which means not living off of a significant other’s money. Mama also planned to use some of the check to invest in her own desires. Mama’s dream is the same as it was when Walter senior was alive and they were a young couple, to own a house with a garden, however Mr.Linder from the Clybourne Park Welcoming Committee 's dream conflicts with her’s. Linder tries to explain the dream of the people in Clybourne Park by saying, “..our community is made up of people who 've worked hard as the dickens for years to build up that little community...who don 't really have much but those little homes and a dream of the kind of community they want to raise their children in..our association is prepared to buy the house from you at a financial gain to your family” (553-554 Hansberry). Mr.Linder is willing to pay the Younger family to not move into the house in clybourne park.…

    • 1149 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays