Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

alone.” is a phrase often heard in modern society. Although most of the time wonderful advice, is it always and appropriate phrase to live by? Walter, in Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, tests this theory. Through his actions in the play, Walter shows his true colors and the morals that cause him to make the decisions he does. In A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry shows that if a human is put into a position where their best interest is put in competition with other people’s needs, humans will decide what

Unlike novelists, Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun does not use her own voice and only rarely uses a narrator’s voice to guide the audience’s responses to her characters and their actions. Instead she uses the setting, symbolism through her characters, and the development of her characters to get the audience to react and think about the meaning of the play. Hansberry uses the setting as a tool for getting a sympathetic reaction from the audience towards her main characters. Set in a small, shabby

on an opinion about a certain piece of writing, in this case we are referring to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Lorraine Hansberry is a African-American author was born in Chicago Illinois during the 1930’s, an era where America had selected a new president, also known as the last years of the great depression. Lorraine Hansberry is also proven to be the granddaughter of a freed slave, however Hansberry’s father was a successful real estate broker, and her mother was a schoolteacher. Her

Hansberry wrote “A raisin in the sun” which was a play about a struggling black family. Lorraine Hansberry was very involved in civil rights and was the first black playwright; unfortunately she died at the young age of 34 from pancreatic cancer. Hansberry was the youngest of four children. Inspiration for writing the play could have been drawn from when Hansberry’s family moved to a white neighborhood and was very violently attacked. Refusing to move, the court ordered the Hansberry’s to move out and

The play A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, was first performed in 1959. Hansberry was one of the first playwrights to portray African American characters, especially women, as nurturing and strong. Lena Younger, mother to Walter and Beneatha, is the foundation of her family and without her, there would be no order. Her determination and motherly nature allow her to guide many of the characters in the play as they struggle with their own battles. Beneatha fights to be a doctor in

In Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun (1959), she uses money as a symbol of false hope for the Younger family. Through each character’s individual desires, Hansberry creates naive anticipation within each character. She portrays the underlying American dream along with the reality of a poverty-stricken, African-American family’s typical life during the 1950s. From the beginning of the play, the Youngers await the arrival of their deceased father’s life insurance check. Upon discussing

Set in 1950’s Chicago, Illinois, the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is considered one of the best African American dramas. Centered around an African American family living in the Southside of Chicago the play portrays the family’s struggle for a better life. When Walter and Beneatha Younger’s father, Big Walter, dies their mother, Mama, is left with a ten-thousand-dollar life insurance check. However, each family member has their own idea of how to use the check to achieve a better

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

A Raisin in the Sun is one of the most acclaimed plays written by Hansberry during the Civil rights movement which is around the time the story taking place where the Younger family face racial discrimination, poverty, and cultural conflict. A theme that was constantly referenced in A Raisin in the Sun is the harsh and long lasting conflict between money and morality through the development of the character Walter, the man of the Younger family. Throughout the play Walter strongly represent the conflict

In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, members of the Younger family each have dreams of their own. Mama, Walter, and Beneatha, specifically, have a hard time fulfilling their dreams because of monetary, family, or selfish concerns. The play illustrates what happens, through the characters, when a dream is deferred. Each of the characters situation’s exemplifies one of the possibilities in the poem by Langston Hughes of how a dream is deferred. In the play Walter has dreams that get pushed