A Raisin in the Sun

Families come in several varieties based on the way they interact with one another, their ethics, appearance and even the way they are related. People all over the world consider their families functional and sufficient. In the play titled a Raisin in the Sun, there is a family introduced to the readers as “The Youngers”. The Younger family is an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. However, my family is a unit that is currently together family generally want…

I believe the film “A Raisin in the Sun” and Martin Luther King Jr “I Have a Dream” speech have a lot in common when dealing with the idea of Racism. In the “A Raisin in the Sun” the neighborhood the family is trying to move in has a problem with a black family moving into their all white neighborhood. In the “I Have a Dream” speech King’s main idea is equal treatment no matter the color of the person’s skin. Even though the film and the speech were two years apart from each other they both show…

types of work. There is also always some way that two works are similar. The Glass Castle and A Raisin in the Sun are two works that are completely different in almost every way. The two are different in the way that the two have a completely different American Dream that they are trying to achieve, the struggles that the families go through, and that The Glass Castle is a memoir, while A Raisin in the Sun is a play. However, their differences also bring out their similarities. Since both…

Stuck in the shadows of a shaky marriage, without a place to relax and blow off steam, facing the cruelty of being a colored man in the 1960’s, Loraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun tells the story of an ambitious family man living in the ghetto without money, trust, or his wife’s support. Ruth and Walter both share dreams to better their lives although Walter may have a very different idea in mind. She focuses on her family first while he dreams of a lifestyle that could possibly work but…

Shockingly, the Salesman Dies: On Character, Circumstance, and Audience Perceptions in Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun Both A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller capture families at points of conflict, both among themselves, and with the societies they inhabit. In the case of Miller’s play, the Loman family is in financial despair due to the deceit of their family patriarch, Willy. Comparatively, Hansberry portrays the Younger family who…

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is realistic fictional in which the play 's title and the characters represent the play 's theme. The play focused on Black americans struggles to reach the american dream of liberty and purpose happiest during the 1950 and 1960s the idea of everyone having the chance to achieve a better life should exist for all. Hansberry created her title using a line from langston hughes poem “ A Dream Deferred”. The original poem was written in 8ugd1951 about harlem…

“A Raisin in The Sun”,by Lorraine Hansberry is a realistic fiction in which the play title and the characters actions represent the play 's theme. The play focused on the black American struggles to reach the American Dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness during the 1950s and 1960s. The idea of everyone having the chance to a better life should exist for all. Hansberry creates her title using a line from langston Hughes poem “A Dream Deferred.” The original poem was written in 1951…

Both Sophocles in his play, Antigone, and Lorraine Hansberry in her play, A Raisin in the Sun, explore the connection between pride and suffering. However, both plays differ in their representation of pride; Sophocles gives pride a negative connotation whereas Hansberry provides insight into why pride is important for people to have—especially when facing oppression or alienation from society. Most notably in Sophocles’ play is Antigone: a woman with strong drive and pride for her family. In…

Joey Kragness Mrs. Bovee English 10 25 October 2014 Comparison Paper The novel Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry both explore the goals and struggles of achieving The American Dream. Both writings express overall themes and how different characters are affected by their dreams, and both challenge readers to new ideas and understandings. John Steinbeck’s idea of the American dream is very similar to the American dream today. His…

People are affected by where they live. If someone grows up in a poor environment they will have a harder time becoming rich than a person who grows up in a rich environment. In the texts To Kill a Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun, and the documentary American Denial the people are affected by where they live, because they are limited by their surrounding area and might be of a lower class because of their setting. If people would look and see the effects of poverty maybe there would be more…