Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Out of all the characters in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, there are two main ones that influence the plot. Mama and Walter impact the plot the most because both characters have different perspectives and their actions significantly shape the plot.

A Raisin in, the sun deals with the trials and tribulations of the Younger family. Facing the struggle of culture identity crisis , racial integration, death and societal barriers. All of these and more are presented to the family in order to test their will and their drive for a better life then they live now.

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

Acts I and II in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, mostly consisted of the Younger family discussing their problems of how they are not happy with the way they are living, along with what Lena should do with the insurance check she is receiving in the mail from the death of her husband. Walter, Lena’s son, believes Lena will give all the money to him so he can start business selling liquor with two of his friends. Walter says to his wife, Ruth, “You see, this little liquor store we got in mind cost seventy-five thousand and we figured the initial investment on the place be ‘bout thirty thousand, see. That be ten thousand each. ”(984).

Travis Younger, Walter and Ruth’s young son is a unique character in the play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. He was identified as a spoiled child because his parents gave him whatever he wanted as they don’t want Travis to think they don’t have enough money but later, he becomes devoted. Towards the end, Travis becomes the symbol of the “future” for the Younger family because his future represents the possibility of ending the burdens of frustration that have accumulated over the generations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Each member of the Younger family had their own distinct dream, but one thing they had in common was their lack of money. Their lack of income is the greatest factor stopping them from achieving their dreams. First there is Mama who dreams of moving her family into a white neighborhood with a big yard for her to garden and her children to play. She has had this dream since her and Big Walter first moved in to the apartment they currently live in. Despite the family’s hard work over the years they cannot afford the new house. The rest of this family also share this same dream, but the one it affects the most is Mama since she has had it the longest. The next dream is Walter Lee’s. Where he wants to own his own business and become rich. His main

The story is set in a small village on the Southside of Chicago, which is racially divided to the southern side. The Younger's, the family in the story, are a low-income family living in an apartment that is evidently too small for the five occupants that live there. The daughter, Beneatha Younger, is the only one who is privileged enough to go to college. She is proud and arrogantly determined to get out of the environment she grew up in and become a doctor. She is very determined and very different from the rest of the family, who often tease her because of her collegiate attitude. She is not only determined in her schoolwork, but everything else about her is "the best". She spends the extra time on her hair and attire, to show she is proud

In A raisin in the sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, an African American family living in racist community are working hard to endure this complex life, which made it hard for them to continue on aspiring for a better life like a normal family does. The Youngers live in a small room which has worn furniture that once was selected with care and love, but time took its toll on it. Suddenly, unexpected news about a ten thousand dollars check knocked on their door, the family started dreaming again, thinking that the enigma of the ten thousand dollars will drive them from darkness to light. The play title was taken from the poem “A Dream Deferred” which presented the negative effect on those who lost their dreams. Steven Smith argues that

A dream is defined as an aspiration that somebody has or hopes to achieve. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, the characters try to attain their dreams but this does not always work out, yet they still live on and create new dreams to work towards. At the beginning of the play, Beneatha aspired to be a doctor in America after she completed a college degree. Walter dreamt of owning a liquor store to earn money, but did not care much about his family's opinions. Mama originally just wanted to own a new house since she had never felt as if she had a big house of her own. She and her husband had always wanted a better home, and she thought it was the perfect opportunity to buy one because the

A Raisin in the Sun: The Life Changing Book “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore- and then run?”

Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930. She attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison and eventually transferred from majoring art to writing and then dropped out to pursue her writing career. This play’s purpose was about a struggling black family who was going to receive an insurance check and mama was controlling who got the money and how much to manage what the best decision was to having everyone's dream accomplished. In the Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry develops the development of Mama’s character by giving money to Walter, buying a house, and helping her children accomplish their dreams to show that people sometimes try to help others to positively impact their life but it doesn't always go how they want.