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. A man, Mr. Linder, who was the leader of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, was sent to the Younger family to persuade them not to move into their newly bought house and the white neighbourhood. Mr. Linder, as a character, makes the theme of racism much more prominent in the plot of A Raisin in the Sun. …show more content…
Linder, in order to persuade the Younger family, described the kind of people the “community is made up of” (2011:90). Mr. Linder described people who are “not rich or fancy”, which are both things the Younger family aren’t. The Younger family lived in a home where a mother and daughter had to sleep in one room and a boy had to sleep in the living room, their home was also filled with furniture that was described as looking “tired” and “had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years” (2011:50). Mr. Linder described the people of the community as people who don’t had “much but those little homes”, and just like those people the Younger family don’t had much but that newly bought house in Clybourne Park. He also describes people with “a dream of the kind of community they want to raise their children in”, which are the dream of both Ruth and Mama. They dream of having a place where their family can be happy and where Travis doesn’t have to sleep in the living
In, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family bought a house in a neighbourhood which largely houses white people. A man, Mr. Linder, who was the leader of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association, was sent to the Younger family to persuade them not to move into their newly bought house and the white neighbourhood. Mr. Linder, as a character, makes the theme of racism much more prominent in the plot of A Raisin in the Sun. …show more content…
Linder, in order to persuade the Younger family, described the kind of people the “community is made up of” (2011:90). Mr. Linder described people who are “not rich or fancy”, which are both things the Younger family aren’t. The Younger family lived in a home where a mother and daughter had to sleep in one room and a boy had to sleep in the living room, their home was also filled with furniture that was described as looking “tired” and “had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years” (2011:50). Mr. Linder described the people of the community as people who don’t had “much but those little homes”, and just like those people the Younger family don’t had much but that newly bought house in Clybourne Park. He also describes people with “a dream of the kind of community they want to raise their children in”, which are the dream of both Ruth and Mama. They dream of having a place where their family can be happy and where Travis doesn’t have to sleep in the living