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Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun (1959) is set in Chicago’s Southside and many social issues of the 1950’s are the themes of this play. This essay is about one of the major themes in the play, racism, and how the Younger family, a poor black family, experienced and resisted the racism in their society. The members of the Younger family had to deal with discrimination in the housing industry, their home and their jobs. In, A Raisin in the Sun, the Younger family bought a house in a…

family in A Raisin in the Sun, suffers from discrimination and unequal rights. When a member of the family dies, the Youngers get an insurance check that is worth $10,000. The Youngers fight and decide on how they each want to spend the check. When. Mama, one main of the man characters, puts as downpayment on a house in Clybourne Park, a man goes to their house and offers to buy the house from them because they are black. Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 Play “A Raisin in the Sun” illustrates the…

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” (Langston Hughes) A Raisin in the Sun is a play about a poor African American family living on the south side of Chicago. The play contains much drama and tension between most of the characters. Most of the characters in the play are african american, however but one of the characters is white. In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry creates three significant characters whose roles can be analyzed through events in…

When I read "A Raisin in the Sun", I focused on the main characters, Walter, Lena and Beneatha. The author made the three characters that have different personality and situation such as sex, education and goal. I believe that the author has some reasons why she made these dissimilar setting. Therefore, I really want to analyze how or why they had different mind and goal that made some problems in the play. Moreover, how they changed after they lost all of the money. (There is a reason why the…

Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" is a play about three generations of an African American family, the Youngers, all living in a small Southside Chicago apartment in the late 1950s. In addition, the play explores a larger theme of how the fact of their race, specifically in the 1950s, serves to prohibit them from accomplishing their American dreams. Furthermore, there are many elements Hansberry employs in order to push forward this message, but in my opinion, none serve more as a…

The playwright, Lorraine Hansberry, wrote many plays, but her most notable play was A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry won several awards for this play, and she achieved the honor of being the first African American woman to have her play produced on Broadway. The play emphasizes the theme of a family struggling to achieve their indiviual dreams while living in an era of extreme racial and gender oppression (Liukkonen). Living through the four major decades characterized by the fight for civil…

Generally speaking, people are ruthless, cold, unforgiving and eager to take legal action when their overglorified pile of funds is affected; although this may be true, there are still exceptions. Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, focuses on a struggling black family. Members of the family, include Walter Lee Younger, the overambitious and dreamer, his wife, Ruth Younger, who is responsible for jolting him back to reality, Travis Younger, the naive child, Beneatha Younger, the…

The drama “A Raisin in the Sun” illustrates a variety of different characters all in which consume immense personalities. Out of all the characters, Mrs. Younger stood out the most. Her family called her “mama.” She was once married to Mr. Younger who had passed away at the beginning of the play. The couple had two children, a son and a daughter. Their son’s name was Walter Lee who married Ruth. Beneatha was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Younger and she was not married but had a boyfriend. Mrs.…

A Raisin in the Sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry that has been shown on Broadway in 1956. The title of this play come from a poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes. The story of this play tells us about a black family experiences in the Washington Park Subdivision of Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. The characters in the play Walter and Ruth Younger they have a son Travis. Under one roff also lives Walters mother Lena and his sister Beneatha. They all live in a property two-bedroom apartment on…

Amber LaCourt ENG 0235 Professor Jackson 3/25/18 Response Paper #2 Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” invokes the idea of “anger” and early feminism by expressing the struggles of grasping the American dream during the late 1950s. Characters like Walter Lee and Beneatha Younger symbolize these themes throughout the play. Walter, a husband, and a businessman is struggling to grasp that idea of the American Dream by conveying his authority in the household. However,…