Kate Chopin's A Raisin In The Sun

Many people go through different moralities in there life some that they believe can change their life for the better but don’t know the consequences. This ties in with issues involving money. Many people believe that money is the way to happiness and do what they can to get money even if it means to hurt your loved ones. In the play “Raisin in the Sun” Walter Lee Younger is man that lives in South Side Chicago and at point in life that he’s in, he wants to do something in his life and make a difference for colored people. The way he believes he can accomplish that is by opening a bar to make money for his family while believing money is the only source of happiness. Walters ideal morality was to make sure he got his hands on the insurance money so he could open up the bar even if it meant his family would suffer when things went wrong.

Mama’s plant is the one symbol, in the story with the most impactful meaning, especially being the impact and correlation it perceives with mama herself. In the story mama always takes care of the plant and frequently refers to compare

Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun features an African American family in the late 1950’s as they look forward to achieving their individual dreams in the era where racism and economic hardship among African Americans was the norm. While Hansberry doesn’t directly mention well-known events in the civil rights movement, she illustrates the realistic struggles an African American family would have faced during this time. In the introduction of the play, Robert Nemiroff illustrates several themes and issues that are addressed throughout Hansberry’s play. One of the subjects Nemiroff mentions is the “value systems of the black family”(Nemiroff, “Introduction,” 5-6). A main value that Hansberry illustrates throughout the play is the

Lorraine Hansberry was a writer during the Great Depression and the Civil Rights Movement. She was the first woman, the first black person, and the youngest person to get a show on broadway with her hit A Raisin in the Sun. The name comes from Langston Hughes’ famous poem Harlem (Dream Deferred) where Lorraine got all of her inspiration from. Harlem is about what happens when you put off a dream for too long. In A Raisin in the Sun Hansberry uses the characters Walter, Beneatha, and Momma to show the consequences of deferring your dreams.

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

The play “ A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry shows three generation of women under the same roof and the struggle each women face, the dreams that they had and how they overcome the obstacle in their life to move on to something better. The women in the family has had to sacrifice a lot to make the family either happy or progress further in life.

The Big Debate One of the hardest decisions after reading a book is should i watch the movie. Most people do not want the movie ruining how good the book was. When it comes to A Raisin in the Sun, teachers may have some concerns as to reading the book or watching the movie or doing both when it comes to reading/watching something in the classrooms. Some of their concerns may include; Will it be a waste of time? , Is it even important?

The most obvious symbol in the play, Mama's plant represents both Mama's care and her dream for her family. In her first appearance onstage, she moves directly toward the plant to take care of it. She confesses that the plant never gets enough light or water, but she takes pride in how it anyway grows well/decorations/shows and waves under her care. Her care for her plant is just like her care for her children, absolute and total/without any limits or restrictions and (lasting forever) (even though there is the existence of) a less-than-perfect (surrounding conditions) for growth. The plant also shows (by using a physical object to represent an idea or emotion) her dream to own a house and, more specifically, to have a garden and a yard. With

The struggles of being African American have been very evident throughout history. To present day many African Americans (commonly referred to as "black") endure injustice and inequality. As many racial protests and movies have been made to depict such hardships, so have books. The controversial topics of racism and gender roles are spread throughout A Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry lived through such a time where racial and gender discrimination was at its highest point; which she portrays in her book. As the Younger family eventually developed into a family so do the gender issues. My goal in this paper is to identify gender injustice as it has been dominantly illustrated, whether that be where the women stand or what the men should be doing as opposed to the women having higher power.

In the novel, A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry , shows the reader how society was viewed back then in the 1950s .It was tough for african american lives. An African american family living on the southside of Chicago in the 1950s. The play opens from receiving a 10,000 thousand dollar insurance check to do whatever they want with it. Living with five people in a tiny- one bedroom apartment puts the environment pressures high. The book portrays the idea of a dream within all the African american characters shown differently and the different struggles they have to live with in a world of racism, social standards/higher expectations, and regret fullness. Walter Lee Younger, the man of the house, truly encapsulates the American

One of the smallest roles but one of the biggest impacts in the book “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry was given to a character named Travis. Travis is the son of Walter and Ruth and he effects almost every major decision in the book. Travis means a lot to his grandmother, Lena and she will do anything to have him grow up just like his grandfather, Big Walter. Since Big Walter passed away the only male influence he has is his father. Walter is pressured to set a good example in the times that matter most, but without Travis’ presence in parts of the story the family would be going through a completely different situation.

Mama’s dreams are to buy this two story house for her family to live in. She is expecting to get out of her little apartment that has been “arranged with taste and pride” (451) to a two story house. Even though Mama has put in a lot of work and pride into the apartment for her family, she wishes to get a better place that is bigger for all of them. She dreams of a garden that she always wanted, relating it to a plant that she has kept, making sure it survives and is healthy is the closest thing she has to the garden that she imagines to have. She is also willing to work for it buy getting another job throughout the day so she can be apart of the family's contribution on the house if she puts a down payment on it.

In the play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, one of the main characters plays the roles of both protagonist and antagonist. That character is Walter Younger and in this essay, I plan to discuss what I initially thought of him and then what made me change my way of thinking. Walter is a typical man living in the 1950s who is struggling to support his family while trying to explore new ways to make money. While it takes him many tries to figure out how he can help his family, he finally realizes that their family’s well-being is more important than getting rich quickly.

What comes to mind when I say the American Dream? Whether or not you say something positive, the reality is that the American dream is complicated. There’re many factors that come into play, unfortunately, those factors interrupt and can even inverse what you’re working towards. The Younger family is a prime example of the complications of the American dream, they are from the fictional novel, A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry. The Youngers are a poor African American family that live in the cities. Mama’s father died, and therefore the family receives $10,000 life insurance. From what is presented in the novel, Beneatha is a character that has plenty of drawbacks from her own dream; her desire to go to medical school, economic problems, and her dream which battles

A Raisin in the Sun “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes greatly impacted A Raisin in the Sun. In A Raisin in the Sun an average family of African Americans try to make a life in a dump of a home. They try to use money gained from insurance wisely and end up buying a house in a white suburb. Conflicts arise as this decision was made and feelings were hurt. After all is said and done the family is content with how things turned out.