Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun - The Importance of the Struggle

In the play “A Raisin In The Sun” Hansberry uses abstract diction and dialogue to support the argument of when life doesn’t seem to give you an answer, create one. The play is a very powerful play with many life lessons and truths about our state in the 1950’s, it also shows our growth from then to now, I will show you how this play supports the argument when life doesn’t seem to give you an answer, create one. The characters in the play start to give up around the middle, as it seems they have else they can do and no way for them to make more money to move to a better house, I think Hansberry is saying that despite all your setbacks and downfall that you must continue to reach for the stars. In the play, Hansberry uses abstract diction,

She’s indecisive, but that gives her more of a chance to have her dream come true, even if it's a smaller dream. Her family tells about the small dreams she had, such a guitar lessons, horseback riding, and camera work. Dreams can be big or small, it's still a dream. Smaller dreams can eventually lead to a bigger dream. Sometimes you have to start small, and then work your way up. Maybe sometime in the future Beneatha's small dream of beginning guitar lessons will turn her into wanting to be a big musician. Dreams are whatever you want them to be, and Beneatha’s dreams show that. She shows that even if you are indecisive, you can still have your dreams come true-small or big.

Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, centers on an African American family in the late 1950s. Hansberry directs her work towards specifically the struggles faced by African Americans during the late 1950s. Through the dialogue and actions of her characters, she encourages not only a sense of pride in heritage, but a national and self-pride in African Americans as well.

Exposition The characters are introduced by Hansberry. It is the 1950’s in a tiny apartment in Southside Chicago. The Younger family has just suffered the loss of Walter’s dad, with a $10,000 inheritance check supposedly to arrive in the near future. Upon hearing about the check, Walter, the protagonist, hopes to be able to take the money to invest in a liquor store. His sister, Beneatha hopes to be able to use it to attend medical school and Mama

As Asagai questions Beneatha’s desire to be in a position of power like God, she responds, “No - I wanted to cure. It used to be so important to me. I wanted to cure. It used to matter. I used to care. I mean about people and how their bodies hurt…” (133). Beneatha’s repetition of “used to” makes it apparent how her views change once Asagai opens her up to the types of challenging behavior the world will expose her to. Her clarification of what exactly she’s stopped caring about shows that Beneatha’s dream, which has molded her character since childhood, is still buried under the new mature perspective Beneatha strives to have in attempt to prove herself to the world that sees her with prejudice. Beneatha puts into question the position of power of a doctor she so craved after Walter takes advantage of being in control of the family’s money and Asagai challenges Beneatha’s every statement. When Beneatha responds with “Yes” (133) to Asagai’s question of if she’s stopped caring about curing people, the facade of certainty and maturity Beneatha attempts to wear is presented as she states this word with no hesitation, but follows it with saying, “I think so,” (133)  which displays an underlying uncertainty with which she has begun to survey the world. Beneatha’s loss of clear sense of identity is relative to her misconceptions of the world and its typical expectations of

Lorraine Hansberry, the author of “A Raisin in The Sun”, was born in Chicago, Illinois. Hansberry was the youngest of four children. Her father Carl Augustus Hansberry was a prominent real estate broker and her mother Louise Perry was a stay home mother. She grew up on the south side of Chicago in the Woodlawn neighborhood. Later the family moved into an all-white neighborhood, where they experienced racial discrimination. Hansberry attended a predominantly white public school while her parents fought against segregation. In 1940 Hansberry’s father engaged in a Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee which was a legal battle against a racially restrictive covenant that attempted to prohibit African-American families from buying homes in the area. As a result in Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee it made the family subject to the hellishly hostile in their predominantly white neighborhood.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play that displays housing discrimination in Chicago during the 1950s. Housing discrimination was partially an effect of the Great Migration. This was an event during the 1950s that resulted in about six million African Americans “migrating” from the south to the north, Midwest, and west regions of the United States. This caused the population of black people in major northern cities to increase rapidly. They are then only able to live in certain neighborhoods, which keeps their communities segregated.

Throughout Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, we see the positive and negative effects of chasing the American Dream. Hansberry expresses her different views on the American Dream through the characters and she portrays the daily struggles of a 1950 black family throughout A Raisin in the Sun. In this play, she is able to effectively show the big impact that even small decisions can make on a family. Hansberry shows the many different attachments that come with the fulfillment of this American Dream. Throughout A Raisin in the Sun, each family member has their own pursuit of happiness, which is accompanied by their American Dream.

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.

But that did not stop Beneatha Younger of becoming a doctor. In A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha is currently still attending college, she has faced many difficult times throughout her journey in college because there have been times when the family did not have enough money for her to attend college but the Younger’s have been working very hard for her to still attend college and change the face of medicine. Throughout the play Beneatha shows many features of becoming a very triumphant doctor. For example Beneath shows that she is caring towards younger children. For example “ quote “. But don’t let that fool you, Beneatha has gone through some very difficult times with her family. Beneatha has experienced many rough times and throughout the play because she t is determined to prove everyone wrong, Beneatha does not want people to discriminate her because she would be one of the few African American doctors. After analyzing Beneatha I concluded that she wants to prove the society she lives in that anyone who has a dream can accomplish it through hard work. Although Beneatha has experienced all these troubles to accomplish her goal, she has never lost that ambition to pursue her dream of becoming a

In the book “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, there were characters whose dreams were stated, some of which were shattered by greed and misfortune and others which would eventually come to be true. The first dream that came about was Walter’s dream of one day owning and maintaining a liquor store. He would do anything to attempt to get his dream to come true, but his mama wanted anything but that to happen. His mama had a dream of her own though, she dreamed of one day owning her own house, where her whole family could stay comfortably. She dreamed this because in the apartment that she resided in was too small, and dumpy, as Ruth called it. Her grandson Travis had to sleep on the couch, and all

In the play, A Raisin In The Sun, Mother tries to keep everything under control because she believes in her children and their dreams, yet understands that they still need to learn and strengthen their value's as they begin to realize their own aspirations. She is the head of the family around whom the conflicts arise and are resolved.

Lorraine Hansberry’s novel, A Raisin in the Sun, revolves around a middle-class African-American family, struggling during World War II. By reading about the Younger’s true to life experiences, one learns many important life lessons. One of the aforementioned would be that a person should always put family’s needs before their own. There are many examples of this throughout the novel. Just a few of these would be the example of Ruth and her unborn baby, Walter regaining the respect of his family, and Mama and her unselfish ways.

I really enjoyed the movie A Raisin in the Sun. It follows a black family's struggle to reach their long anticipated dreams. These dreams, and the struggles necessary to attain them, is one of the main focuses of the movie. The movie began with a husband, Walter, and wife, Ruth, fighting over Walter's dream to make it in the business world by using an insurance check as a down payment on opening a liquor store. He believes that if someone in the family would just listen to him and put forth their trust, his dreams would become a success. This episode illustrates a major conflict throughout the story. As Walter dreams bigger and bigger he seems to leave the “smaller”' things, such as his family behind. This movement away from the family

	In the play A Raisin in the Sun, the playwright Lorraine Hansberry depicts the life of an impoverished African American family living on the south side of Chicago. The Youngers, living in a small apartment and having dreams larger than the world in which the live, often use verbal abuse as a way to vent their problems. Many times, this verbal abuse leads to unnecessary conflict within the family. The most frequently depicted conflict is that between Walter and his sister Beneatha. Walter wants nothing more than to be a wealthy entrepreneur that can provide for his family, while Beneatha plans to go to medical school and become a doctor. Both characters are opposed to the others’ dreams. This