Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Furthermore, Beneatha is Mama’s youngest child. She dreams of majoring in the medical field as a doctor. “Well, I do all right? thank everybody! And forgive me forever wanting to be anything at all! Forgive me, Forgive me, Forgive me ( Hansberry).  Even though she is not very independent at all, she is planning on the money to help herself through college. For

Beneatha really wants to go college, but they don’t have enough money to send her college. Beneatha’s dream is to go to medical school and become a doctor, but Walter doesn’t want to use the money for that. Walter knows that Beneatha really wants to go to medical school and become a doctor, but he doesn’t think it would be a smart use of the money. It is very expensive for her to do that, and it would use a large amount of money. He wants her to know that it’s Mama’s money not theirs.“Who the hell told you to be a doctor? If you so crazy ‘bout messin ‘round with sick people then go be a nurse like other women or

Beneatha is probably one of the most independent and individual characters in the play. She does not worry about the prejudice her community has about her. She is confident in herself, her abilities, and her intellect. She tries to be independent by not allowing anybody to help her. When she first hears about the insurance money she does not want any help from it. When Walter suggest that mama could use a little bit of the money to help Beneatha out with the cost of college, Beneatha responds by saying, “I have never asked anyone around here to do anything for me” ( Hansberry 281). Beneatha refuses help from others, because she feels that doing everything on her own will make her a stronger woman. She presumes that asking for assistance for anything in life will make her weaker. She does not understand how dependent she is on others until she starts dating George Murchison and joseph Asagai.

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 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.

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 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.

In A Raisin in the Sun the family had some ups and downs in this story because so many problems has occurred throughout the story. The family faces hardships in that moment seem to tear them apart but through everything, they always stick together. Lorraine Hansberry wrote all this characters in so many different ways because they’re all special in their own ways, and who I think brings everyone together mostly is Walter because he made some mistakes that he can’t really fix but he proves to everyone that he can always make things better but can’t reverse what he did. In the play Walter cares for everyone especially for his son and wife but he wants to dream big like he said “Cause sometimes it is hard to let the future begin!” Walter believes his dreams of a better future has came true when Willy was at the door with some good news.

In Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun, Mama's plant is an important symbol that represents her endless love and care for her family, and her dream for them. During her conversation with Ruth in Scene 1 Act 1, Mama walks over to her plant on the windowsill, sprinkles some water on it, and says, "They spirited all right, my children. Got to admit they got spirit --Bennie and Walter. Like this little old plant that ain't never had enough sunshine or nothing --and look at it...."(52). The way she compares her plant, that never had enough sunlight, to her kids demonstrates her pride and love for her children. Though they never had all the resources and opportunities to flourish, Beneatha and Walter

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 play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, It takes place in the family’s apartment in 1950’s. All of the characters influenced the plot greatly. But the two characters that influenced the plot the most are Walter and Mama. They are most important because Walter during the whole play wants the money for himself. But Mama wants to use the money for the family to make everyone happy and to be safe.

Do you believe it's okay to be different? In the book Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Beneatha searches her identity throughout the play. She also wants to be different from her family. How? Beneatha tries everything in her power not to give up on her dream of becoming a doctor. Throughout this play, it shows how this African American family struggles to become successful while going through segregation and racism. Beneatha doesn’t let none of this stop her, difficult situations happen and she has to still figures out who she is. In this play you’ll see how independent Beneatha is, she doesn’t believe in God but she believes in herself and she doesn't want to follow her culture.

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.

During the time of the book was made their were plenty of racism going around. It would take 9 years for the civil rights movement to end. Many African-Americans would still be treated not as humans. Many black families have to put up with poverty and discrimination. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is about a small African-American family living in Chicago trying to make ends meet while the family receives a large sum of money from their father’s insurance money. The family still try invest the money in a way it could help all of them. Walter cares for profits and business ideas to begin making money like big CEO’s. Walter’s ego and selfish desire to help the Younger family disrupts the family bond they have by his bad morals on life like his view on his responsibility as a father, alcohol consumption, and poor decisions of his ideas.

The film version was very effective in illustrating the larger cultural themes. During the time period “A Raisin in the Sun”, written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959, was set in, racism, prejudice, and discrimination dominated society. I thought the characterization of the characters was brilliant portrayed by each actor. The tone was slightly dramatic at times in the movie, but it needed to be in order to show how important this money was to this family. For example, Beneatha is distraught over the idea that she is not going to be able to continue going to college and her argument with her boyfriend, Asagai, became very heated.