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History of Fun in The Sun at The Beach Beaches have always seemed to be a place to hang out in the sun on hot days. This hasn't always been this way. The beach has been thought of in many different ways throughout the past. Beaches have been around forever, but only about three centuries ago did people realize the fun and benefits of beach culture. Beaches have been thought of as bad places where no one wanted to be. The beach wasn’t considered a place for relaxation or entertainment. The…

night. Of course, technically there was no night in space since the Sun never sets in the cosmos. The green jumpsuit had many advantages, including how easy…

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a drama about the conflicts of one African American family in the inner city of southern Chicago during the 1950s. The Youngers, a family of five, live in a small run-down apartment and face the conflicts that not only go with living with extended family, but those that go with living with racism in the slums of the inner city. Lena, also known as Mama, is the wise single mother and Grandmother in the family who dedicates her life to her children and…

different for many people, yet at the end of the day, it is all the same concept. In The play, A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, everyone has different ideas on how to spend the money that came from the insurance. Mama wants to buy a house, Walter wants to invest the money, and all the other characters have their own ideas on what the money should be used for. In “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry the characters use rhetorical/literary devices to talk about how each individual…

A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by a lady named Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote the play to mimic how she grew up in the 1930s. Her purpose for the play was to expose how life was for a segregated black family during the pre-civil rights era. Hansberry introduces us to a family, called the Youngers, which includes Mama, Walter, Beneatha, Ruth, and Travis. The play takes us through the struggles of the family, which includes many social issues. The social issues that Hansberry exposed in A…

speeches, plays, reviews, articles but she is most noted for her most well known for a play, which was based off a few short lines from Langston Hughes poem Harlem. “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” The play “A Raisin in the Sun”, was also based on Hansberry own experience as a young African-American woman living in a white neighborhood. The play tells the story of a lower-class African-American family that struggles to gain middle-class…

One key theme of the A Raisin in the Sun is the importance of family. Family is an important theme throughout life and in Lorraine Hansberry’s play. In the play, we can see the importance of family is when Walter decides to call Karl Lindner to get the money to sell their new house. The importance of family in this situation was the cohesive decision not to sell the house. As a family, they decided to tackle on this problem together as a family instead of just giving in when there is a bump in…

In Langston Hughes’s poem titled “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”, he asks an interesting question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” In Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses the backdrop of discrimination on an African American family to examine the effect of dreams on people. Hansberry utilizes symbols such as Mama’s withering plant to represent how the family’s dreams are struggling to live while the members have conflicting ideas of the future. She also employs the life insurance money as…

What if a plant, a window and a ray of light could change your entire life? A Raisin in the Sun is a drama about the Youngers, an African American family living in a small apartment in the year of 1959 on the southside of chicago. The Youngers are not wealthy, Mama works for a white family as a house cleaner and Walter (the son of Mama) works also for white people as a Chauffeur. The family has recently lost their Father/Husband and a ten thousand dollar Health insurance check is on its way.…

The play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry introduces characters that perfectly reflect the negative scenarios of the poem, “Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes. These scenarios are caused by dreams that are unattainable, but not forgotten. The poem and the lives of several characters of the play portray discouragement, helplessness, anger and even violence. These deferred dreams effect the characters negatively as their dreams seem unattainable with the passing of time. However, the…