Raisin Bran

In the play “ A Raisin IN THE SUN by author Lorraine Hansberry” takes place in the south side of Chicago in a predominantly African American community during the mid 1950’s with a hardworking multi-generational family called the Younger’s, who live in the same worn out apartment for the past six generations. The Younger’s consists of five main characters: Ruth, the mother and daughter in law, Walter Lee, the son and husband to Ruth, Beneatha, the sister of Walter lee, Travis, the son of Walter…

Angela’s Ashes is a memoir by Frank McCourt, published in 1996. It takes place briefly in New York and then moves on to Limerick during the 1930s and 1940s. Frank McCourt lives with his family in Brooklyn where his mother, Angela, struggles to feed the children and his father, Malachy, spends all his wages on alcohol. When Frank’s baby sister, Margaret, dies and Angela falls into depression the McCourts decide to return to Ireland where more problems await them. Growing up in Ireland,…

space can usually cause issues to develop between the whole household, it’s an unavoidable situation.. Although issues develop, families are strong, they’re able to pull through anything they undergo. The author Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play, A Raisin in the Sun, about a colored family from the Southside of Chicago being given a great deal of money after a family members passing. Though this family now has money, it stirs up a few complications. Little did they know they had a bond strong…

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun galvanizing idealism, prompting the prevailing question of black identity perplexing African Americans. Set in the backdrop of widespread discrimination and glaring racism, A Raisin in the Sun remains as Hansberry 's legacy to the continuing struggle for racial justice and decency in America. Although white readers may have misinterpreted Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun as a universal depiction of American struggles, A Raisin in the Sun…

Gwendolyn Brooks would spend the majority of her life in Chicago, observing and experiencing life for African-Americans in the city. Many of her works, including “First Fight. Then Fiddle,” revolve around the struggles of blacks as she understood them. Going to a range of schools and meeting a wide variety of people would introduce her to racism and some of its causes, and develop her views on the world. She was motivated by these encounters to use her writing to educate her readers about the…

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is considered to be one of the most important plays in American literature. Upon its debut in 1959, there was an enormous amount of controversy and influence surrounding the plot and subject matter. A Raisin in the Sun follows the Youngers, an African-American family composed of three generations in one home. The themes of the play include dreams, family, and the realities of life in America. Within the three generations of Youngers, there is significant…

Many are determined to accomplish their dreams, but the desire of wanting to achieve it clouds one's mind. During 1959, many African Americans desperately hoped to find their individual opportunity to achieve the American dream. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry shows the theme of people struggle to achieve their dreams while they deal with oppressive conflict that comes with it through hyperbole, dialogue, and metaphor. After Mama receives her ten thousand dollar paycheck,…

In “Raisin in the Sun”, Walter is held back from achieving his dreams because of obstacles that stand in his way. Walter's dreams dramatically change from the beginning to the end of the book. For example, at the beginning of the book his main dream is to own a liquor store, and by the end, he only wants to help his family. However, many people stand in the way of his dreams. At the start of the book when Walter is fighting for his liquor store, he is hindered by his family and himself. Walter…

Lorraine Hansberry was inspired to write the play “A Raisin in the Sun” not only because of her own real life experience, but also because of a poem she read by Langston Hughes. This play was first presented in 1959 and shows many of the problems and issues that divided American society. During this time period, social issues of African Americans were the main factor, and throughout this play it is very obvious that the Youngers’ are facing many of them. Racism is certainly the biggest social…

Slavery What is the mode of the satire? (Exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, or parody) Example 1: “He would go to saving up money and never spending a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife, which was owned on a farm close to where miss Watson lived; and then they both would work to buy the two children” (pg 89). Jim wants to buy his family back so that they can finally live a nice life where they can see everybody for the first time. They just want to be a family…