A Raisin In The Sun

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play based on the Youngers. African-American family that has settled on the lower class. The South Side part of Chicago in the early 1950s. The play’s important part is when the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. The money comes from the now deceased Mr. Youngers, who is the father of Walter Lee, from his life insurance. Every of age character in the family has a…...

Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play “A Raisin in the Sun” about an African American family dealing with the repercussions of racial tension between blacks and whites in the 1950’s. The family struggles to achieve their dreams due to social and economic setbacks. Each family member has their own goals and dreams for themselves and their family. Each character experiences losses while trying to achieve their dreams, and some let their dreams get in the way of reality and family. Lorraine…...

“A Raisin in the Sun” is a film about a Black family that has their own personal issues. Through this writing issues will be discussed about families living arrangements, the family development, and family love. Insite will be explored on different parts of the film. In any family, there are many problems that may occur in their household. Some of the Youngers problems were how they got along in their home. It was an an argument everyday. For example, Walter…...

Being the man the house is a very important role to men. In the story “A Raisin in the Sun” Walter was left to be the man of the house after his father passed away. Walter had crazy moods only because he wanted things to go his way. Walter also wanted the best life for his mother and a new home for his family. Walter took a crazy risk trying to get what he wanted. Lorraine Hansberry. On the southside…...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry interprets a meaningful story which describes and recreates the struggles of African Americans in the 1950s. African Americans have been treated unfairly for the past several decades and their history and struggles are yet unknown to many people living today. This play indicates a sad truth on how dreams are torn apart and ridiculed due to the hardships African American's had to face in the 1900s. The Youngers, who are showcased as…...

A “Raisin in the Sun” is mainly about dreams, it shows how the main character’s effort to understand and comprehend with the overbearing factors that impact their lives. The title of the play implies a theory that Langston Hughes adequately wrote in the poem; he wrote about the dreams that were abandoned or never given attention to. He’s curious to know if those dreams ever shrink like a “Raisin in the Sun”. Every individual in the Younger family has a…...

The American dream is an idea of success that many people wish to achieve in their lifetime. The stories “Death of a Salesman” and “ A Raisin in the Sun” all have similar themes but have different ways of obtaining the American dream. They both are from about the same time period but the families have different lifestyles and ideas of success. There are also a ton of difficulties in each story like losing jobs, losing lives, or just not…...

“You name it son… and I hand you the world” - A Raisin in the Sun analysis Lorraine Hansberry This was Walter Younger’s way of sharing his dreams with his son, Travis. In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” a constant theme of hoping for better and a new life kept coming into play. Throughout the play, it is quite obvious that most characters would like to have a little more in life, but I think this theme is…...

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun portrays an African American family during the 1950s in conflict over money. Walter, Benita, and Ruth were the main characters that showed there greed over Mama’s deceased husband insurance money. This subject became a dilemma with the Younger family. There were arguments, fights, and people becoming stressed over something that were not theirs. The greed of money almost tore the Younger family apart. Each family member’s selfish desire for the use of the…...

Dreams are what humans see as their guides through their lives or their individual goals which they must work a lifetime for to achieve. In Langston Hughes’ poem, Dream Deferred, he asks rhetorical questions about how a withheld dream can corrupt and negatively change the mind of a man. The poem relates to the movie, “A Raisin in the Sun (2008)” by Kenny Leon, since the movie answers the rhetorical questions in the poem by showing scenes of how the…...