The Significance Of Dreams In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

Having dreams is a part of having feelings, a part of being alive. It's something that everyone has whether it be to travel the world or to discover the Loch Ness monster. They all fall under the same category, one's goal or life's purpose. The characters displayed in “A raisin in the sun” by Lorraine Hansberry showed what life consisted of for African-Americans trying to achieve the American dream during the 1950s and 1960s. In the play, each member of the family has a dream they want to pursue, but despite their enthusiasm and persistence toward these dreams the problem of money still stands in their way. Suddenly they are greeted with the insurance money from their grandfather's death, 10,000 dollars in the family's possession but with a grandmother (Lena Younger) who wants to buy a house for the family, a son (Walter Younger) who wants to make and investment, a daughter (Beneatha Younger) who wants to become a doctor, and a grandson (Travis) who the family wants to get an education, 10,000 dollars isn't the type of money you can split among 4 people with big ambitions. Because of this and other factors such as discrimination and unplanned pregnancy among the family. Their dreams are hard to achieve and cause conflict in and out of the family.

“Check coming today?” The Life Insurance check that Mama will soon be receiving is the source of all the dreams in the Younger family. A major argument that Lorraine Hansberry makes in her play A Raisin in the Sun is the importance of dreams. Dreams are what each member of the Younger family is driven by. Mama wants to have her own home in a nice part of town; she does not want her children growing up in a place with rats. Walter wants to have a successful business so he can surpass the poverty that has plagued his family. And Beneatha wants to get a good education, become a doctor, and marry a nice man. Dreams are especially important to the Younger family as they come from a poverty laden family and desire to live the “American Dream.”

At most times, the American Dream resembles an ideological puzzle more than a fully realizable image. Within the confines of her fantastical, theatrical world Lorraine Hansberry attempts to fit a few of these pieces together and, in the process, ends up showing exactly how everything doesn't just snap-together all nicely. The problems in her play, A Raisin In The Sun, deal primarily with the basic nature of humans and their respected struggle's to "make it" in America.

       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

Hopes and Dreams can take a long period of time to be achieved. A Raisin in the sun is a play by Lorraine Hansberry. This story takes place in the 1950s, it is a story that tells readers about daily lives of people of color, their hopes, and dreams in America. Hansberry talks about the younger family. The younger family has to deal with a lot of hard obstacles that a person in America now wouldn’t have had to face. The central idea of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is in order to achieve hopes and dreams people make sacrifices.

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.

At the beginning of the play “A Raisin in the Sun” the main characters from the play all demonstrate that they have dreams for themselves and all of them deal with how they identify with themselves. These dreams are, for Walter, to be perceived as wealthy, for Beneatha to be independent, and for Mama to continue what she and her husband started to own their own house with space for everyone. These characters had to comprehend their own identity to settle on the whole family’s dream of moving to a middle-class neighborhood, and how that dream fulfilled all their dreams. Walter’s dream of appearing wealthy stems from him wanting a better life for himself, his wife Ruth, and his son Travis. He believes he can accomplish this by investing in a liquor store and changing his financial standing. Walters dream is exposed when he discusses it with his son Travis:

Have you ever had a dream that you have been really committed to? Has something or someone ever stopped you short of that or any dream of yours? These questions are quite relevant to the main characters in the selections Of Mice and Men and “Only Daughter”. Of Mice and Men is a well-known story by John Steinbeck that tells the tale of two travel companions, George Milton and Lennie Small, as they dream and work hard to gain a small piece of land for themselves during The Great Depression, a harsh financial time. “Only Daughter” is an autobiographical essay by Sandra Cisneros about her struggles on trying to bond with her father while being impeded by her six brothers. The two selections’ main dreams are both corresponding and distinct in various ways. The dreams are also very substantial to the one who holds it. George and Lennie’s dream, in Of Mice and Men, influenced their lifestyle, behavior, and relationship between them. Sandra Cisneros’s dream, from “Only Daughter”, had an impact on the topic of her writing, her writing style, and her relationship with her father, who she has been trying to gain the approval for her writing career for many years.

For most people, their lives are driven by one thing - this is their dream. It gives a life purpose, and a goal to strive for. Some achieve them, some don’t. In Langston Hughes’ poem, “Harlem Two” He ponders what happens to dreams that are not only unachieved, but pushed aside. Ruth, a characters from “A Rasin in the Sun”, written by Lorraine Hansberry, has a dream deferred. Ruth is a wife and a mother of Her dream develops the idea of “festering like a sore” as written in Hughes’ poem. A sore is a bother those who have one, yet they don’t really limit a body; much like how Ruth only considers her dream to be a distraction, as she goes on with her life. Ruth’s dream is a festering sore until Ruth is faced with a difficult decision, and the sore is pricked.

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

Success comes from not quitting when one does not get their way, pushing themselves mentally and physically, and never giving up on their dreams. Throughout the play, A Raisin in the Sun, dreams overrule many of the characters’ lives, and over time, they learn that happiness does not always come from money but instead, it comes from achieving one’s dreams and upholding success from those. Many people would call dreams “goals” to make what they are striving for more real. Goals are something one aims for. They are a means of motivation to turn one’s dreams into reality. In A Raisin in the Sun, everyone in the Younger Family has dreams or “goals”, and each one of them are striving to make those dreams come true.

People are born with everyone telling them they are destined for greatness. And they can achieve anything and everything if they put their mind to it. But in reality, there is no guarantee that they are destined for greatness, that they can do anything they want. There is only the chance they might succeed. The American dream is the idea every US citizen should have the opportunity to be successful and happy if they are determined and work hard to achieve their goals. Unfortunately, the American dream is not a reality for everybody as a result of poverty, humanity, and gender inequality issues. Someone that experiences this injustice is Beneatha Younger. Beneatha is a fictional character in the novel, A Raisin In The Sun, written by Lorraine

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 “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, Mama went back in to get the plant because her hope for a garden was reignited and it reveals that she has not given up on her dreams. Throughout the whole story, Mama always had hope that her and her family would achieve their dreams, and during the end of the story, it looked like she had lost hope, but she never fully gave up. Even after she screamed at god to give her strength she said later in the story “We ain’t never been that dead inside” and it had made it seem like she had given up (3.1.116). Then when Walter called Lindner to get the money for the house, Mama grabbed Travis and said “Make him understand what you are doing” and it revealed that she didn’t just want to give up on the

When reading Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” there are many different ways to read and interpret the words. What the reader is learning and understanding of the play is different for everyone. The way that Lorraine hansberry wrote this play provides room for each individual reader to respond to the text in their own way due to the fact that nobody has the exact same knowledge of one certain thing. Some people may know more about what times were like in the time period of this play and because of that they responded to this play in a different way than someone who knows little of what times were