A Raisin In The Sun Importance Of Family

Family is important to live a happy, healthy life. A poor, black family, the Youngers, live together in a small house in Chicago in the 1950s. Their main focus is not getting money, but staying together and loving each other. Lena, Walter's mother, is the head of the family and live out the moral of the importance of family. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, Lena attempts to bring her plant back to life, which can be a symbol of the family struggling. The Youngers struggle with the need for money,

One of the major points of the play is the importance of a united family. Despites of all their difficulties of living, they stick together and still show love and respect for one another. Since the beginning of Act 1, Mrs. Lena’s dream was to always be there for the family because she loves the family. However, readers can feel Walter’s feeling in the play by the way he behaves and treats his wife, Ruth, who always overcome his bad attitude by her kindness and love for him. They do not have a great

throughout and are shown in the books A Raisin in the Sun and The Help. The Help takes place in the 1960s. Skeeter Phelan is a recent graduate from college with a degree in writing. Elaine Stein is a publisher in New York who Skeeter tries to launch her book idea to. Skeeter Phelan interviews the maids in Jackson, Mississippi to show the discrimination shown towards them by the families that hire them. Both the characters in The Help and A Raisin in the Sun have similar experiences in housing and

Lorraine Hansberry's  play, A Raisin in the Sun,  revolves around the positive and negative effects of achieving the American Dream. Hansberry expresses different points of views on the American Dream through the characters and she portrays the daily struggles of African American family going throughout  A Raisin in the Sun. In this play, she can effectively show true life experiences that can have a big impact on a family. Hansberry shows the many different attachments that come with the fulfillment

readers throughout history was obtained through Austen’s capability to bring forth themes in the story such as love, class, and reputation; themes that are relevant to any person at any point in time. Similar to this literary relic, the drama “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry follows the life and ideas of people who are relatable to people of all backgrounds which gives it a similar effect. Because it was written in an era of discomfort in American history, and because the author was subject

“A raisin in the sun” was written by Lorraine Hansberry. The play was not expected to do so well because it had one white cast member, an inexperienced director, and an untried playwright. Set in the south side of Chicago in the 1950s, the play begins in the morning in the Youngers apartment. Their apartment has two bedrooms, one for mama and Beneatha, and one for Ruth and Walter, while Walter’s son Travis sleeps on the couch in the living room. Ruth gets up first and talks and Walter and Travis

A Raisin in the Sun Introduction The movie “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is about an African American family who receives an insurance check for $10,000 from Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Each of the family members are anticipating doing something different with the money; in the meantime “mama” has plans to buy a house for the family. The Younger family faces economic hardships and racial discrimination during their struggles to gain middle-class acceptance. The movie “A Raisin

contacted you because I wanted to tell you about my idea for the school play. I think that A Raisin in the Sun would be a great choice for our school play for many reasons. The play is relevant because the American dream is a major theme in it, important because it tackles racism, and entertaining because the internal family conflicts put the viewer on edge. The title of this play, A Raisin in the Sun, reveals relevance to The Covenant School. The name of the play came from a poem by Langston Hughes

In this essay I will be showing the similarities between the Movie adapted from a play Raisin in the Sun and the Poem by Langston Hughes known as known as Mother to Son. Specifically I will be covering the characters of Lena Younger and Walter Younger with reference to most the other major characters featured in the film. I will also be covering the theme of value in your dreams and the importance of family. Finally I will be giving the similarities to the main topic when comparing it to the aforementioned

which are especially present in A Raisin in the Sun. An example of this would be the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee in 1940. Lorraine Hansberry’s family moved to a white neighborhood in Chicago and was evicted because the community had previously attempted to create a racially restrictive covenant preventing African Americans from moving into the neighborhood. Though the case was eventually brought before the Supreme Court and decided in favor of Hansberry’s family, it was not because the neighborhood