A Raisin in the Sun Essay

In her play, “A Raisin in the Sun,” Lorraine Hansberry projects several conflicts that African Americans faced in the 1950s through her characters. These conflicts include the pressure to either assimilate to the current American standards or to maintain African tradition, the urge to make money to get one’s family out of the ghetto, the need to lead one’s family, and the tough decisions to be made to support and protect the family. Hansberry openly addresses the fact that there was a serious…

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a realistic fictional drama in which the play’s title and the characters represent the play’s theme. The play focused on Black America’s struggles to reach the American Dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness during the 1950’s and 1960’s . The idea of everyone having the chance to achieve a better life should exist for all. Hansberry created her title by using a line from Langston Hughes’ poem “A Dream Deferred.” The original poem was…

long-term goal of supporting one’s family and living a comfortable life is the overall American Dream. However, according to some contemporary writers, “... the American dream has been accessible only to a privileged few” (Werlock 1). In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the Youngers, an African American family living on the Southside of Chicago, all work towards acquiring their own goals in life. They each overcome barriers such as racism and sexism on the road to carrying…

Occurrence of Different Dreams and Ultimate Lessons How was look like when the Lorraine Hansberry 's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is written? At that time, from the abolition of black slavery, African Americans could have freedom differently from the past. However, the liberty existed on the only surface. As the reader can find in the play, there were many cases that the African American families that are not different from other normal white families have pain in racial prejudice and…

A Dream Deferred In A Raisin in the Sun, the author, Lorraine Hansberry, chronicles the ambitions and tribulations of the impoverished Younger family, and concurrently Hansberry attempts to answer Langston Hughes’ famous question: what happens to a dream deferred? After Walter Younger, who yearns to be affluent and to be able to provide for his family, loses all his money in a bad business deal and effectively deters his dream, he invites Karl Lindner to sell their recently-bought house in the…

A wise person once said, “Sometimes we have to let go of what’s killing us, even if it’s killing us to let go.” A man will always try to do what’s best for his family. But does he always know what’s best for the family? In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry debuts a thirty-five year old man who thinks life revolves around money. Walter Lee Younger, a selfish, careless, and disobedient man will do anything to own a liquor store, but in the end will eventually learn some things are not…

Plato once said, “A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” This quote can relate back to a play called A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. It is about the Youngers, a black family living in the 1940s. They receive money from an insurance company after the death of a family member; the money begins to change the family. One person who changes is Walter, a man who, at the beginning of the play, is irresponsible and childish. Mama gives Walter some of the money to…

similarities and differences can help readers and viewers more clearly see defining characteristics of two or more things. Seeing a piece of work in two very different ways can be especially helpful in identifying these similarities and differences. A Raisin in the Sun is a play originally by Lorraine Hansberry. Hansberry’s work has since been formatted into several different movie versions. When comparing and contrasting Hansberry’s original work to the movies it has been adapted into it is…

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry tells us a story about a struggling black family dealing with a move during the 1950s in Chicago. Lorraine Hansberry pinpoints the struggles this family was facing due to race, gender, and class. Being an African American family in the 1950s went through many hardships and they were segregated based on their economic standing. Even today we still face many problems with poverty . The problems of poverty and economic stature depicted in this story…

After reading A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, and after watching A Raisin in the Sun, made in 2008. A poverty stricken African American family living on the Southside of Chicago. They live in a run down two bedroom apartment trying to make ends meet in the year 1961. And they are trying to decide what to do with the life insurance check with the passing of their family patriarch. While the two depictions have much in common, there are many comparisons and contrasts that portray a…