A Raisin in the Sun

There are many things that can hold one back from their dreams. Prejudice will crush the dreams of those that cannot possess the strength to fight back, as is wont to happen in a society of judgement. This theme is shown in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The play was written in 1954 and was based on Hansberry’s own experiences. It details the story of an African American family that struggles to prevail and achieve their dreams, largely of which is purchasing a house of…

the last. Every person has a dream, and of course those are different. I am about to tell all of you three different stereotype American Dreams. There are things that inspire people to achieve something they want to have or to be. The story "A Raisin in the Sun" is a great examples of people who got dreams of their own. The dreams of Beneatha, Walter, and Mama show us that, despite great obstacles, the American Dream is still possible. One of the character with a dreams is Beneatha. Beneatha's…

I watched the film A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry and produced in 1961 by Columbia Pictures Corporation and I also read the play. Although similarities between the play and the film exist, I have also found distinctions which allow each of the versions of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry to stand on its own. In the play, the entire story happens in the Younger’s living room, in Chicago’s Southside, where in the 1950s it was the home of poor, black people. The…

The two literal works "A Raisin in the Sun" and "The Glass Menagerie" both have a character that deal with the same conflicts with themselves, others and society. These two characters are Walter from "A Raisin in the Sun" and Tom " The Glass Menagerie" both of them are dreamers and their problems cause conflictions with their dreams. Tom problems with himself are alcoholism and you can say that this is due to him not being able to cope with his living…

In both Antigone by Sophocles and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the playwrights explore the idea of money, resulting in stubbornness and loss. The two texts emphasize the idea of how money can lead to one’s greatest downfall and therefore must face the consequences to move forward. In Antigone, Creon’s wealth blind sights him into believing biased thoughts, preventing him from realizing that he might be in the wrong for not wanting to bury his nephew Polyneices, at Antigone’s wishes…

Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses the theme of dreams in order to illustrate the ways a dream being deferred can affect one’s life. The main concept of this play is the American dream, which includes every person, regardless of race, ethnicity, and religion should have an equal opportunity to live a successful life. The play emphasizes the importance of someone having a dream even when there are obstacles that may stand in his or way. Each character has a dream that they…

Happy, happy, happy, that’s all the little strawberry jelly filled donut could feel. He was laying under the warm heater inside Walter’s Donut shop with his Mother and Father, when it finally happened… A nice family walked in Walter’s Donut shop, as they browsed the selection of donuts, the smallest of the bunch stopped at the mother donut, he stared with hungry eyes. ‘That one, that one!” the little boy screamed to his mother. “Those look excellent, we’ll take two!” the mother announced happily…

There are many ways that Walter’s personality drives his dreams. These include his love of money and how he wants to be wealthy and he also wants to be able to have something to pass on to his son. Walter also wants to create something from his life. Walter desperately wants to have something that he can pass on to his son. “I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live…”(34). Walter is…

Now after a few days, things have settled and Walter has his game plan in mind. However, with the life that Walter chose, he has to live with all the problems that come with it. So while cooking meth, Jesse and Walter got held up at gun point by some drug dealers, Emilio and Krazy-8. Walter, thinking quickly, offers to show them his recipe for meth, as a way to buy time. Secretly he is making a gas to hopefully incapacitate them. His plan works and he manages to knock them out with it. To…

Yasla Ngoma In class Essay Ms.Russo 10.12.2016 A Raisin in the Sun takes place during the mid-sixties, during a time period which was hard for African Americans and even worse for black women because of racism and gender discrimination. African American women didn’t really go out of their way to do something big with their life because there weren’t a lot of opportunities for black women. Mama and Ruth are examples of how limited black women were. Both women grew up in worse situations than…