The Importance Of Dreams In A Raisin In The Sun

Another theme and issue that arrives from the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is racism. During the 1950’s blacks and whites were segregated. The house the Younger’s purchased was in the Clybourne Park neighborhood, an all white neighborhood. When Lena told the family they were moving to Clybourne Park they stood with amazement. “Mama, there ain’t no colored people in Clybourne Park” (p.734). The family heard of other colored families’ houses being set on fire in this neighborhood, they were concerned that the same thing would happen to them.

A Raisin in the Sun portrays multiple examples of African Americans being discriminated against in the 1950s. The play reveals an obvious example of this. In scene 1 of act 2, Ruth states, “Mama, there ain’t no colored people living in Clybourne Park” (Hansberry 57). This quote reveals that the Younger family is afraid and ashamed of moving into a house in an all white neighborhood. Ruth’s excitement switched to sadness and disappointment real quick when she found out the location of their new home. However, towards the end of the play, the family agrees to do anything in order to not be put down by the whites and survive in Clybourne Park. In

In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry you go back in time to when segregation was still aloud. In this play you meet a cast of people with dreams of a better life. The American Dream, to be specific. This dream is portrayed differently for each character, all of which impact the play. Two of these character

       Lena, Walter, Ruth, and Beneatha Younger all lived under the same roof, but their dreams were all different. Being the head of the household, Lena dreamed the dreams of her children and would do whatever it took to make those dreams come true. Walter, Lena's oldest son, set his dream on the liquor store that he planned to invest with the money of his mother. Beneatha, in the other hand, wanted to become a doctor when she got out of college and Ruth, Walter's wife, wanted to be wealthy. "A Raisin in the Sun" was a book about "dreams deferred", and in this book that Lorraine Hansberry had fluently described the dreams of the Younger family and how those

The American Dream can’t be real without… no racism, no sexism, equal rights, equal freedom, and the right to be apart of whatever religion you want to be apart of. The books “Fight Club” and “A Raisin in the Sun” can relate to now because of all these reasons said above.

The story of this play is simple and the majority of African-Americans faced such issues in the 1950’s, living on the south side of Chicago, struggles with poverty, dignity and dreams of a better life. Wanting better for your children and trying to fit in, while maintaining family values. A Raisin in the Sun is an excellent example of the relationship between family values and conflict. In this play it portrays: values and purpose of dreams, the need to fight for racial discrimination and the importance of family.

The only white character in the domestic tragedy play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry tries to convince an African American family that segregation is in their best interest.

A Raisin in the Sun is play written about a family in the 1950’s, and the focus of the play is how racism affects that family. The family in the play tries to buy a house in a white neighborhood, and they have to deal with discriminatory housing practices and the threat of racial violence. A Raisin in the Sun is relevant today because a lot of the insights it makes about racism are still debated over today. One of the issues it tackles is racial violence. In the play, the family deals with the threat of racial violence from people who don’t want them to move into their new house. Today, many feel that racial violence is being done by the police. The story also deals with the family’s struggles to buy a house and the abuse they face for

Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is a play about segregation, triumph, and coping with personal tragedy. Set in Southside Chicago, A Raisin in the Sun focuses on the individual dreams of the Younger family and their personal achievement. The Younger's are an African American family besieged by poverty, personal desires, and the ultimate struggle against the hateful ugliness of racism. Lena Younger, Mama, is the protagonist of the story and the eldest Younger. She dreams of many freedoms, freedom to garden, freedom to raise a societal-viewed equal family, and freedom to live liberated of segregation. Next in succession is Beneatha Younger, Mama's daughter, assimilationist, and one who dreams of aiding people by breaking down

“I have a dream” Do you? Just how close are you to making that dream come true? In her play, Raisin in the Sun , Lorraine Hansberry takes us through the life of an african american family living in the 1950’s and describes their dreams. When she was twenty years old, Hansberry moved to Harlem where she became best friends with Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was an african american poet, social activist, and playwright from Joplin,Missouri. During this time Hughes wrote a poem titled “ Harlem”. Hansberry based her play off of this poem and named it after a line in it, “ Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”(Hughes 2-3). Hansberry won best playwright for this play. She was the first african american to win this award, the youngest and the first woman to win. Hughes poem “ Harlem” is about what happens to a dream deferred. In her play, Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry uses Walter, Momma , and Ruth to show the negative consequences that occur when you put off your dream.

Racism and discrimination are both negative perceptions that poorly affect many groups of people, all around the world. In the play A Raisin in the Sun, a small African American family, the Youngers face issues regarding racism and discrimination in their everyday lives, causing them to feel less accepted in the world surrounding them solely based on the color of their skin. The matriarch of the family, Mama, attempts to move the family out of their small, crowded apartment into a house in Clybourne Park, a predominantly white neighborhood whose inhabitants strongly dislike the idea of living near a black family. In their attempt to move, the Youngers face many obstacles due to racism, legality, and housing discrimination, which affects both mental stress, and violence from white homeowners.

A Raisin in the Sun was a play written in the late 1950’s analyzing the cruel effects of racism amongst the Younger family. The younger family suffers from racial discrimination within their living space, place of employment, and the housing industry. Racism has been going on for a very long time in the United States and will always continue to exist. Racism has not only led to political but also social issues. "A Raisin in the Sun confronted Whites for an acknowledgement that a black family could be fully human, 'just like us."(qtd. White fear.) The setting took place in the ghetto, south of Chicago where mainly African Americans settled. In this division, apartments and houses were overly priced, crowded and poorly maintained. Crime rates were extremely high and most families lived in poverty. Due to segregated housing, it was a daily struggle for black families who had hopes in leaving the ghetto for better lives.

In the play “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry. The major problem is racial discrimination during this time(1950s-1960s). The younger’s are a poor African American of five people living in a very small apartment in Chicago. The five people that live in the small apartment is Lena, her son, Ruth(daughter in law), Beneatha(the daughter), and her grandson Travis. This takes place in the 1950’s. The family faces challenges after the death of their father. Lena (the mother) receives a life insurance check for her died husband for ten thousand dollars. She wants to use the money to buy a home, and start a better life for her family. Lena faces a tough decision when her kids can’t

A Raisin in The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a play about an African-American family whose father passed away unexpectedly. With that passing came the money that is guaranteed when you invest in a life insurance plan. After receiving the money, Mama decided that she wanted to use some of the money to get out of their cramped apartment. When Mama attempts to put the down payment on the house, she is greeted by white members of a nearly entirely white neighborhood. They attempt to bribe her out of the area, because they did not want to live in the same area as Black-Americans.

Within society there is often a gap between people’s race, religion and even economic status, which causes hatred, discrimination, racial prejudice and injustice. People are often shaped by these types of forces that surround them in the world which causes people to be more or less successful in the real world. The play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry is about a colored family, the Younger’s, whose only wish is to be expected by society in terms of economic status and social justice. But given the time, place and society that they live in, is it even possible for the Younger’s to break the cycle of racial prejudices and succeed, even when living in poverty? It seems that the title, A Raisin in the Sun, plays a major role