A Raisin in the Sun Essay

In A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Everyday Use by Alice Walker, themes of non-assimilation are very prevalent. Assimilation, in the case of these two stories is where African Americans adapt to white American culture, rather than reverting to traditional African customs. In A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha Younger is a young African American woman who has a busy love and family life. Dee, or Wangero from Everyday Use, arrives at her childhood home as a completely transformed woman…

person views the world by teaching them important lessons, even when the knowledge is not directly noticed at first. It is important for people learn, the knowledge learned is applied to life and affects a persons decisions and choices. In A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Younger is one of the main characters who is hard to get along with, immature, and believes money is the answer. As the play goes along, Walter Younger changes and rises to manhood because of the way knowledge…

Lorraine Hansberry, the famous playwright, wrote her play “Raisin in the sun” based off of Langston Hughes poem “Harlem and Dream deferred”. The play takes place in Chicago during the 1960’s. Hansberry uses Beneatha, Walter and Mama to show the negative consequence that occur when put off your dream. To begin, Hansberry uses Beneatha to show the negative consequence that occur when you put off your dream. Beneatha is in her late 20’s and black women. Beneatha is Mama’s daughter and…

During the time period between World War 2 and the 1970s, African Americans were treated with disrespect. They were segregated and lived apart from the white people. They suffered through harsh conditions and had a very difficult life. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play which highlights the struggles of these harsh conditions. In the script, an african american family has issues living in a tight apartment in South-Side Chicago. The reader sees how Mama, Walter, Beneatha and…

After the Youngers move into their new home many changes occur with the family, financially and emotionally. There are many characters in the book and that brings a lot of changes. As we know, the Youngers moved into their new home bypassing everything that Mr. Linder from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. Mr. Linder came to their old apartment to let them know that the people living at Clybourne Park were kind of bothered that they were going to move in. This caused lots of problems…

the time period, dramatically and negatively influenced, the now selfish, Walter Lee Younger. Like other people of different races in the 1950s, the Younger family were limited in every aspect of their lives, such as career and housing, in A Raisin In The Sun Walter Lee is turned inside out when he is first denied his inheritance, to buy a liquor store and then loses the money, however, is turned back again when he becomes a man and puts other's wants and needs above his own. Walter Lee…

Both Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God critique the idea of the American Dream by. Within these literary works the normative hierarchy found in a family makes it exceedingly difficult for two parties to coexist and both reach their separate interpretations of the American Dream, one side is commonly oppressed in order for the other to achieve their dream, and this can be seen through relationships observed in both readings. While both…

the 1950’s it was a big responsibility to become the man of the house, it was a position respected by many young boys, and it was an expectation that when a boy’s father died that they would become man of the house. In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun, Walter Younger, a man who just lost his father, wants desperately to fill the role that his father had. As the only man living in a house with three women; his mother, sister, and pregnant wife, Walter Younger struggles with wanting to…

justice. Martin Luther King showed exemplary examples of demanding justice in his famous “I Have a Dream Speech” as Lorraine Hansberry shows pride in her world-renowned play A Raisin in the Sun. The idea of racial equality presented in both Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun provides justice, pride, and equality as the foundation for a peaceful world which contributes to future generations. Growing up Lorraine…

they do? Who would they be? What would they look like? By reading the play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, you will begin to picture the protagonist, Walter Lee Younger. Walter Lee Younger, a selfish, emotional, persistent and greedy man, will do whatever it takes to get the money he needs to fulfill his big aspirations of owning a liquor store, and learns a very valuable lesson along the way. A Raisin In The Sun takes place in the city of Chicago, in the 1950s. The family that the…