A Raisin in the Sun Essay

In Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Beneatha states, “Enough of this assimilationist junk!” (Hansberry 524). Beneatha says this due to the fact that she is tired of trying to blend in with white society. She wants to customize herself and represent her culture. She is tired of attempting to style her hair, dress in conservative clothing, and being what she is not. Now, she is ready to proudly display her African-American heritage. Beneatha then provides her own definition of…

The drama “A Raisin in the Sun” illustrates a variety of different characters all in which consume immense personalities. Out of all the characters, Mrs. Younger stood out the most. Her family called her “mama.” She was once married to Mr. Younger who had passed away at the beginning of the play. The couple had two children, a son and a daughter. Their son’s name was Walter Lee who married Ruth. Beneatha was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Younger and she was not married but had a boyfriend. Mrs.…

A Raisin in the Sun, a play written by Lorraine Hansberry, is about an African- American family, the Younger family, living on the South Side of Chicago that has an opportunity to escape from poverty comes in the form of a $ 10,000 life insurance check that Lena Younger receives upon her husband death, but Lena's children, Walter and Beneatha, want to use the money for their plans. The play ends with the family moving into their new home in a white neighborhood of the city. It tells that the…

Generally speaking, people are ruthless, cold, unforgiving and eager to take legal action when their overglorified pile of funds is affected; although this may be true, there are still exceptions. Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, focuses on a struggling black family. Members of the family, include Walter Lee Younger, the overambitious and dreamer, his wife, Ruth Younger, who is responsible for jolting him back to reality, Travis Younger, the naive child, Beneatha Younger, the…

The play A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry, and is set in a poverty-stricken, black section of Chicago in the 1950’s. In the passage above, Lena Younger known as Mama, the functioning head of the household, is speaking to her thoroughly demoralized adult son, Walter. Mama’s statement reflects a change of heart she experiences about her role in the Younger family and what she needs to do to protect it. In this passage, Hansberry explores how the control of money in a family…

Oluseyi Akinbami once said, “Every man’s heart speaks, where no one can see, it reveals the motives for our actions, and many times the motives are not good.” In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” the Younger family is one full of ambition. Each member of the family has a goal in life that they wish to achieve. For Ruth and Lena (Mama) Younger, this goal seems to present itself as the desire for family bonding. For Beneatha Younger, success in the medical field seems to be prominent.…

Character Essay In the play A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter and Beneatha are the two characters who make up most of the plot throughout the play by using their actions, what they say, and how they interact with one another. One character that influenced the plot in the play is Walter. He’s greedy about the money because he keeps talking about it and how he’s going to start a business with it. He’s also a very disagreeable person. Everything that someone else says in…

The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry follows a struggling black American family living on the south side of Chicago in the 1950s. The main characters include, Walter Lee, Beneatha, Lena “Mama”, Ruth, and Travis. As the play opens the family members are anticipating on receiving an insurance check and throughout the play they have their own interpretation on what they would like to do with the money. That of which leads to one of the conflicts in this story which is dreams.…

The Plot Characters In the book A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the characters that most effect the plot are Mama and Walter through conflict. The $10,000 (which is three times the annual pay of the average family during WWII and the 1950’s) check causes a fight between Walter and Mama, Mama wants to buy a house with this money, “But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had ‘bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back – (She waits and…

seem like the journey of life is predictable. As we all know, life is not predictable; therefore, a person’s past does not dictate their future. Every person has the power to create their own future, regardless of their past. In the play “A Raisin in the Sun”, written by Lorraine Hansberry, the Younger family are suffering financially. Our protagonist, Walter Lee Younger, is portrayed as a reckless man who puts his own wants before his family’s needs. After a series of turmoil regarding Walter…