A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

In Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959), she reveals the life of the Youngers family. In doing so, there surfaces a detrimental ideology that destroys the family financially and in their overall happiness. In Act II Scene I, Walter, the father figure of the family, says, “Why? You want to know why? 'Cause we all tied up in a race of people that don 't know how to do nothing but moan, pray and have babies!” (Hansberry 532). By way of explanation, the family and much of the African-American community for the 1960’s, is built upon a loose ideology that is a brutal cycle that infects the lives of those who inhabit the area; tired of all the commotion from the Caucasians who, to them, miraculously achieve a life of ruling and

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.

There is no doubt that Lorraine Hansberry uses her play, A Raisin in the Sun, as a platform to give her opinions and observations on the black community and of the racism they faced in the mid-1900s. Her play is filled with commentary

In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the American Dream is presented throughout the play. The American Dream is that a person can come to America and become something great with a lot of hard work, and their hard work would be rewarded. Each family member has a dream of their own. Mama wants to leave something for her children so they are not left with nothing, and Beneatha wants to be a doctor. Also, Ruth dreams of living in a better house, and Walter dreams of owning a liquor store and making a lot of money to better support his family.

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

In Lorraine Hansberry’s play “Raisin in the Sun” many of the characters struggle to achieve their dreams and often have them deferred due to race and gender. In the play, an African American family must learn how to live in a time period where racial segregation and gender inequality is normal and obvious. In the 1900s, men saw women as less superior. In Langston Hughes’ poem “Harlem”, it explains how dreams are deferred when it comes to the African American population. Hughes writes: “Does it dry up, /like a raisin in the sun?”(2-3). Hughes and Hansberry want to let everyone know the hardship African Americans dealt with and that at often times, their dreams were deferred. Racism made it difficult for some African American families to make

In the play A Raisin in the Sun, playwright Lorraine Hansberry’s characters Walter, Ruth, and Mama, are all attempting to correct the wrongs in their lives. They do not like the person they see in the mirror. Their struggles are reflected in the poem “Let America Be America” by Langston Hughes. The speakers in this poem are not satisfied with the America they are living in, much like how the characters are not satisfied with their own lives. Both are being held back by external and internal forces that prevent them from reaching their end goals.

Throughout Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin In The Sun, one is able to see the positive and negative effects that the American Dream has on the Younger family. Hansberry expresses her different views on the American Dream through the characters while portraying the daily struggles of a black family in the 1950’s. Within the play Hansberry is able to effectively show the large impact each member of the family has with every diminutive decision one of them makes. By portraying it through the characters in the play Hansberry is able to convey the message that the American Dream is always achievable.

Most people know racism is still around. It’s kind of like slavery all over again. We have partially learned from our past, and that is good. However recently our country has been on a downhill spiral to African-American inequality. Violence only seems to make situations worse as shown in the recent riots of Ferguson, Missouri.

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.

Is money really important to the society? Well let me tell you about the play A Raisin in the Sun, starts off with a family, the Younger family, who lived on the South Side of Chicago in the late 1950’s. They struggle with lack of money, however, they all have a difference in the way they think of solving their situation. Walter Lee, being the protagonist of the play, wants to invest his father’s insurance money in a new liquor store venture, in which his father had passed away. Throughout the play, Walter shows that he is only concerned about money and has no morality, because he wants to become rich fast, quits his cab driving job, and putting his family to the side.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play about a family of African Americans that are struggling to achieve their dreams. The American Dream is the belief that any goals or dreams can happen if one tries his or her best to achieve them. At the end, Hansberry shows the Younger family realizing that the American Dream is not realistic in order to send a message to the readers that the American Dream is a failure. Through her play, Hansberry also portrays the American Dream as a failure of imagination by making few characters in the book struggle with their dreams because a lot of people cannot imagine something that is against ordinary happen such as a woman being a doctor or a African American family living in a white society. Therefore,

Ruth, a character from Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, goes through a change in demeanor over the course of the book. In A Raisin in the Sun, Ruth begins as a woman who works day in and day out doing domestic labor to provide for her family - her husband, Walter; her son, Travis; her sister-in-law, Beneatha; and her mother in law, Lena. She is quiet-mannered and lives in a small apartment with her family, where she manages to get by. During the play, Ruth develops a stronger will, and it changes her relationships with both the people around her and herself.

A Raisin in The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a story about a family who continues to struggle while reaching towards The American Dream. The American Dream is described as “the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” The Youngers are a hardworking family who all have different interpretations of The American Dream. Mama, Walter, and Beneatha’s shared powerful dreams that give the a look into The American Dream. Through hardships, hectic moments, and fighting between the family gives a look that not all dreams are easy to reach, but it gets achieved in some such way.

Mama’s Life Views In the play A Raisin in the Sun By Lorraine Hansberry the Younger family has been through a lot. The family members, Walter and Ruth, Beneatha, Mama and Travis, go through a mess of family conflicts. Poverty is the breaking point for the family, and the family is fighting racial boundaries. With their father’s passing, an insurance check is on the way.