Short stories, poems, and dramas express people 's experiences of happiness, sadness, way of living, sorrow, love, death, religious belief, jealousy, courage, fantasy, social roles, manners and so on and so forth. It is either a direct life experience of the writer or things that happen in the surrounding. But mostly writings reflect writers life experience. You will find the life of the writer in his/her writing either in the form of fiction or real life story. Based on her personal experience, Lorraine Hansberry drama discovers the racial issues , family values , poverty, class differences, identity ,and gender roles. The play is about the different dreams of members of a poor black family living in the south side Chicago, through the
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Hansberry, as a black woman grown up in South Side Chicago, she understood well the racial discrimination from her personal experience and incorporate the whole idea in very simple one family." The literal home that Mama Younger purchases in Clybourne Park mirrors her family’s various psycho-social struggles to attain, secure, and define a sense of place, or “home,” in the face of systemic socio-economic racism in Southside Chicago"( Matthews 557 ). Younger 's family is considered a working class black family who tried to move out from the two bed room apartment to a new house located in a white neighborhood. Unfortunately, they face a problem because of their skin color. Mr. Lindner show up on their door steps to remind them that they don 't belong to the new house neighborhood and bribing them to change their mind. "............... It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that …show more content…
"With Beneatha Younger, Hansberry explores two other “homes” as possible sites of resistance and change: black nationalism and Pan-Africanism." (Matthew 562). Beneatha is a young college girl who wants to be a doctor and has an interest in Africa language, music, culture and dress. Asagai, a Nigerian boyfriend, wins Beneatha 's heart through her deep desire of African heritage. "When Raisin was produced in 1959, African struggles for independence had begun to receive international attention; by the 1960s, African nationalist movements had assumed vast and powerful proportions"(Phillips 1). Asagia developed as a character to explore pan Africanism sentiment on the play. His interest is to go back to African, to fight against colonialism and to create a free black nation. He invited Beneatha to go with him to his country Nigeria. On the other hand, George as a character created to show the opposite idea of black nationalism. "Beneatha, who in many ways resembles Hansberry herself, detests George mostly because of his desire to assimilate, defining an assimilationist as “someone who is willing to give up his own culture and submerge himself completely in the dominant, and in this case, oppressive culture!" (Saber 461) George didn 't understand her since she is talking about some kind theory instead of reality. His world is to get along with the capitalist system and get used to the
Hansberry, as a black woman grown up in South Side Chicago, she understood well the racial discrimination from her personal experience and incorporate the whole idea in very simple one family." The literal home that Mama Younger purchases in Clybourne Park mirrors her family’s various psycho-social struggles to attain, secure, and define a sense of place, or “home,” in the face of systemic socio-economic racism in Southside Chicago"( Matthews 557 ). Younger 's family is considered a working class black family who tried to move out from the two bed room apartment to a new house located in a white neighborhood. Unfortunately, they face a problem because of their skin color. Mr. Lindner show up on their door steps to remind them that they don 't belong to the new house neighborhood and bribing them to change their mind. "............... It is a matter of the people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrongly, as I say, that …show more content…
"With Beneatha Younger, Hansberry explores two other “homes” as possible sites of resistance and change: black nationalism and Pan-Africanism." (Matthew 562). Beneatha is a young college girl who wants to be a doctor and has an interest in Africa language, music, culture and dress. Asagai, a Nigerian boyfriend, wins Beneatha 's heart through her deep desire of African heritage. "When Raisin was produced in 1959, African struggles for independence had begun to receive international attention; by the 1960s, African nationalist movements had assumed vast and powerful proportions"(Phillips 1). Asagia developed as a character to explore pan Africanism sentiment on the play. His interest is to go back to African, to fight against colonialism and to create a free black nation. He invited Beneatha to go with him to his country Nigeria. On the other hand, George as a character created to show the opposite idea of black nationalism. "Beneatha, who in many ways resembles Hansberry herself, detests George mostly because of his desire to assimilate, defining an assimilationist as “someone who is willing to give up his own culture and submerge himself completely in the dominant, and in this case, oppressive culture!" (Saber 461) George didn 't understand her since she is talking about some kind theory instead of reality. His world is to get along with the capitalist system and get used to the