A Raisin Of A Sun By Lorraine Hansberry

Throughout many works of literature, characters are described to go through a rite of passage, developing the plot and solving conflicts. A rite of passage is when a character goes through life changes, realizing his/her flaws and maturing as a person. Walter Lee Younger is a man that goes through many different character changes, which cause conflict amongst the other characters. Once he goes through his rite of passage, he is able to fix his flaws and mature. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, characterization is used to portray that one must experience a rite of passage in order to mature.

In A Raisin in the Sun, the family is symbolized by the plant for how the mother takes care of both, and the author uses various other literary devices. Lorraine Hansberry, the author, writes about the Younger Family and their issues about money, death, equality and more. Instead of writing it as a normal book, in paragraph form, she writes it in dialogue. There are many uses of setting, imagery, foreshadowing, and symbolism used throughout the story.

Broadway in 1959. A character named Walter Lee invisions to buy a liquor store in his poverty.

A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry, this play also comes in a series of movies. In the movie version of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Leon Kenny, there are many similarities and differences from the play. In the play, for example, a difference is that Mama talks about the check with Walter in their apartment, but in the movie they talk in a diner after Mama finds Walter in a bar. Another difference is that Travis was in the play a lot, but in the movie he was hardly included. A similarity, however, is that Mama gives her same speech about how loving someone when they are down is the best thing you can do for them. The movie version was set in the time period of the Civil Rights Movement, and the play was not set in that time period. While both versions of A Raisin in the Sun address the similarities and differences, the differences exceed the similarities, hence a teacher must show the movie and the play so the students can understand the significance of both.

Raisin in the Sun when racism was everywhere and African Americans were still maids and still worked for the white people. Every African americans were struggling to maintain their family other than if you go to school which involves money. Walter is someone who cares more about money then his own family. When Walters father died the family ended up get insurance money and Walter wanted to take the money for himself. When Walter thought about the money he goes overboard and treats his family bad and loses his morals. Throughout the play Walter cares more about money and doesn't have morals because he went against his family for the sake of having money, he was selfish against his family because they ¨don't understand¨ him, and he doesnt show love towards they people that care for him.

A symbol in literature is an object or idea that has a representation beyond the literal meaning of the object. Symbols add meaning and further a point the author is trying to make. In A Raisin in the Sun, Mama’s plant represents her dream. The play is written by Lorraine Hansberry, and it is a drama. It features an African American family from the Southside of Chicago. They live in an apartment with one window. Mama, the mother of the family has a dream of owning her own house. Throughout the entire play, Mama’s plant was mentioned. The plant continued to change as Mama’s dream was affected.

Columbia Pictures' A Raisin in the Sun is a 1961 dramatic motion picture, starring Sidney Poitier. It's based on a 1959 Broadway play by Lorraine Hansberry. It tells the story of an African American family's personal and social struggle as they try to improve their way of life. Its major themes include poverty, racism, manhood and cultural pride.

Lorraine Hansberry in “A Raisin in the Sun” utilizes Walter Lee Younger to personify one’s desire to lead a life of poise and dignity, through his disapproval of indebted servitude. When Mama attempts to subside Walter’s thoughts of unappreciation, following his expression of frustration, Walter assertively debates, illustrating his yearning for a dignifying lifestyle.

Lorraine Hansberry is the author of the play, A Raisin in the sun , it is set in the southside of Chicago. It features a lower class African-American family that faces many issues with discrimination. However, they have very high hopes and dreams for their lives and their kids futures. In the family, there is Mama, her two grown kids, Walter and Beneatha, Ruth Walter’s wife, and their child Travis. Each of the family members has his or her own dream, throughout the story it shows how sometimes one person's dream is deemed more important than the others.

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun?” These first few lines from Langston Hughes’ poem, Harlem, are the words that inspired Lorraine Hansberry’s, A Raisin in the Sun, and its central theme of never giving up on your dreams. The poem covers the life of the Younger family who have just received 10,000 dollars from the maturation of the life insurance policy of Big Walter who is the patriarch of the family. Using this money, his family strives to make their dreams come true.

When people think American a few words that come to mind is freedom, opportunity, and justice, these things are what make the American dream that many strive for. In the play, Raisin in the sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, Invisible Life by Lynn Harris, and Quicksand by Nella Larson are all able to illustrate what the American dream looks like. These novels show how the dream is something different for everyone, but it also shows how hard it is to achieve especially for the black class.

When Lorraine Hansberry wrote her famous play A Raisin In The Sun back in 1959 which is a period of time after the second world war, she addressed many topics and problems that the Americans and especially African American people were facing in their lives. One of the major concepts that she brings to her play is the concept of home and what it means and symbolizes to African Americans back in those times. The play gives the readers an idea of how the concept of home was essential to African Americans. When the movie came out, it complements the idea by providing visual images to the audience which help them better understand. To African Americans, home is not just a place that they can live in; it represents equality that they achieve by overcoming

The play “A Raisin in the sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is a story about an African American family who have dreams to be successful and to improve their living conditions. Throughout the story, each character faces obstacles that they must overcome to reach their dreams.Although throughout most of the play, the characters didn’t achieve their dreams, Walter, Mama, and Ruth each got a chance to pursue their dreams once they got the $10,000 insurance check.Walter is the oldest child. He’s mostly a dreamer. His main dream is to buy a liquor store to have a better job as well as possibly getting better payments. When Mama gets the insurance check that everyone’s been waiting for, Walter already knows what he wants to do with that money. Obviously,

The play ,“A Raisin in the Sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry discusses dreams, and the difficulties accompanied by pursuing them. It also examines our tendency to commit to a particular mindset due to our greed, ambition, and passion for materialistic objects.

Think back to some world history class. Think back to the moment learning about how the Jewish population was oppressed and powerless in Nazi Germany. What if I said a similar oppression was happening in the United States, but this one lasted about 833% longer. By using two time-testable texts, a documentary on the study of how racial bias blocked the American Dream, and an article about the Jim Crow laws, I will detail how the oppression of Blacks, especially prevalent in the contexts of housing, equal justice, and movement, diminishes power.