Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Walter is one of the characters to impact the play. His main goal is to get Mama’s money that would be coming the next day so he can open his very own business. The conflict of this is that all the talking about the cash and the idea of getting a liquor business makes most of the family disagree with it. The family would rather use the currency for something more important. Walter talks with his wife, Ruth, and states “you see, this little liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand.” Ruth at this time, is trying to avoid the subject because she didn’t want to talk about the money.

In Lorraine Hansberry’s “ A Raisin in the sun” a constant theme of money, morality and hoping for a better and a new life kept coming into play. To demonstrate this theme is best shown through Ruth. Ruth Younger is wife of Walter Lee Younger a lady that works as a maidher family's poor financial situation, she has to double as a housewife and a working mother... She finds hope when the family decides to move into a better home in a white neighborhood, and decides to keep her child. In the play Ruth shows she will do anything to make her family. We came across some example in the play that show it. Ruth loves her family and shows she doesn't care about money and just cares about family. Showing she has morals, because she wants to get a house

Inspired by Langston Hughes poem the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry debuted on Broadway in 1959. The play tells a tale of an impoverished black family living in Chicago’s Southside who is about to receive a hefty life insurance check. Although the plays setting is likely the 1940’s, A Raisin in the Sun can be best understood when viewed in the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s in America because of its theme of dreams and its systematic racism and segregation. The systematic racism and segregation present thought out the play can be best understood if put in the context of the 1950’s and 1960’s.

"A Rasin In The Sun" is written by Lorraine Hansberry. Most of Hansberry's work is about the struggle of African American's during 1950's. Hanberry was the first African-American women to have her play played on Broadway. "Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile" as said by Lorraine. A Raisin in the sun is about a family who is facing economic hardship and racial prejudice. The theme of the play is Dream; American dream for the colored family.

In A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha Younger, a young black woman who hopes to eventually become a doctor, faces extreme disapproval from her brother, Walter Younger. Beneatha tells her romantic interest, Asagai, that her desire to become a doctor began when she witnessed her friend slice his face open while sledding and was shocked to discover that doctors successfully reconstructed his face. Her desire to be a doctor, unlike her flit with horseback riding and music, is deeply rooted and defines Beneatha for a significant portion of the play. Walter Younger arguably makes significant development throughout the play, yet continuously undermines her dream as uncharacteristic of a woman, stating in the beginning of the play "Who the hell told you you had to be a doctor? If you so crazy 'bout messing 'round with sick people-then go be a nurse like other women-or just get married and be quiet" (A Raisin in the Sun, 1.1.78).

Lorraine Hansberry grew up in the time of segregation. Her and her family became one of the first black family’s to move to an all white neighborhood where they were violently threatened numerous times. A Raisin in the Sun, published in 1959, written by Lorraine Hansberry, took place after World War Two and at the time of segregation. It was a violent era where blacks were denied the same rights as whites. Blacks did not have equal rights at the time of segregation, and as a matter of fact, they had inferior schools, neighborhoods, and they were excluded to eat at most places. By taking into account Prometheus Bound and Prometheus Unbound, readers get a better understanding of Walter Lee’s struggle by analyzing how Prometheus struggles while he is secured by infrangible chains to the rocks.

In the featured article How to Read Literature like a Professor in the Chapter “INTRODUCTION: How’d He Do That?” The author Thomas C. Foster Starts discussing Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959) and giving a suggestion that Mr. Lindner is the devil. The author is trying to make us read and look at the story from a different angle and to connect to different texts. For example the author explains how in the old western culture there were many stories about bargains with the Devil where "The hero is offered something he desperately wants... And all he has to give up is his soul", the author wants us to connect this to the book and realize that “The bargain with the devil” is the same as the offer

After World War II, African Americans had unequal opportunities in many aspects of their lives. A Raisin in the Sun, a play by Lorraine Hansberry, mirrors the conflicts endured by African-Americans after World War II who were hoping to better their lives, but still held back by the racism and bigotry of earlier eras. Despite the legal barriers of segregation in the 1950s, black families were still being denied access to jobs, higher education, and particularly as it relates to the play, desirable neighborhoods in which to raise their families. At this time, black families like the Youngers, had planned living arrangements from zoning issues. They were blocked from the neighborhoods because of covenants and racial steering matters. The

“A Raisin in the Sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry opens with the Younger family receiving a $10,000 insurance check from the death of Mr. Younger. Each character in the novel has unfulfilled dreams, that mostly involve money. Beneatha, the daughter of Mr. Younger, for example, wants to use the money for medical school expenses. However, Walter, the son of Mr. Younger, wants to use the money to invest in a liquor store. Because they already struggle to maintain a stable living condition, the characters have contrasting views on how they money should be spent.

On August 28, 1963, Washington D.C. echoed with cheers as people shouted for justice. The time for being complacent was over. Martin Luther King Jr. was the face of this demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial. His critically acclaimed “I Have A Dream” speech inspired millions nationwide, and continues to embody the spirit of justice for African Americans today. King’s speech propagated ideas of hope, dreams, and justice for African Americans, despite the continuous oppression they faced in everyday society.

Hansberry’s play clearly steeped up in Chicago history, where most productions and criticism of the play fail to paint the full picture of racial violence. The 1959 Broadway play "A Raisin in the Sun," by Lorraine Hansberry, focusing on its expression of African American culture in the face of threats of White racist violence. The author describes the work as an exile narrative. An overview of giving criticizing the power of integrationist. The play expense more subversive critical reading in which it speaks against the social structures of Chicago, Illinois during the Jim Crow era.

A go getter, someone who will do anything to succeed in life. Even though people may judge unfairly and not believe in them especially, when it comes to a color women. During the 1950’s gender equality was an important issue especially when segregation was relevant. In A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry shows a 1950s young colored woman fighting for what she wants. Beneatha Younger, an open minded and naive twenty year old daughter whose goal is to become a doctor and will go to extreme lengths to prove her family wrong. Her devotion to her education will lead her down a great path.

“Symbolism is the language of mystery.” Symbolism in literature is an object or idea that has meaning beyond the literal meaning of the object. For example a rose is considered a symbol of balance. The beauty of the flower expresses promise, hope, and new beginnings. In the book A Raisin In The Sun, many symbols are used, but there were three main symbols that were in the book, that also all connected together in the. In the play. Lorraine Hansberry uses window, light, and plant as the symbols in the play.

The play, “A Raisin in the Sun” written by Lorraine Hansberry, showcases the struggles of an African American family in 1959. One of the major themes throughout the play is money, but the women’s role throughout the play make a huge statement on their suffrage back then. The women in the story are portrayed differently through each character. These women constantly fight to keep their dreams alive, but it becomes difficult because of their social status. Lena, Ruth, and Beneatha are three generations of Younger black women. Each woman dreams of a better future but have different ways of going about it. They each want to future the image of black women each in their own way. The Youngers live in a broke down apartment in Chicago, and cram[ped with five people living

Its been 5 years since Dala’s parents died in an accident. Since then, he has moved out of the Anishwabe reserve and his uncle Walter is taking care of him. Walter did not like the natives because he thinks that they are savages, hence why he is not living in the reserve. Dala did not like his uncle because he was really rude and did not care about him. For example, the uncle barely fed him and Dala had to sleep outside of his uncle’s shed. The boy always wanted to tell what he truly thinks about his uncle but he never did because his parents had told him to respect the ones older than him.