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A Raisin in the Sun, became the first drama written and produced by an African- American to be played on Broadway, reflecting the issues that not only blacks faced but the American people. Lorraine Hansberry, precisely projects the struggle of the Youngers, a poor African American family living on the South Side of Chicago. They live in a one-bedroom apartment where the building is run down, battered, and roach infested. An opportunity to escape from poverty comes from a life insurance check that

On a fateful Fourth of July in 2014 I was sure my future life would reside in Chicago, Illinois. That city was a major part in my past and I would like it to be apart of my future too. The aesthetic beauty of it made me love the place. Some say it’s unethical to throw blueberries off a balcony with your little cousins and that you should be a role model. I say that I never agreed to be a positive role model and kids should have fun. After that rather unfair encounter I was stuck watching my sticky

“hurricane.” The use of a metaphor to explain the similarities between how immense and deranged the fair has become to a natural disaster that literally destroys everything in its path shows just how important and extravagant this event is for the town of Chicago and the United States as a whole. Readers get insight into how overwhelming and chaotic the making of the World’s Fair is especially for the people directly involved. Readers acquire a feel for how a seemingly amazing event can have an exhausting

Chicago’s water is still polluted. The Chicago River has been polluted for most of history. An article from the Chicago Tribune states, “Within minutes, the noxious blend of liquid waste began flushing out of more that three dozen overflow pipes that empty into the Chicago River … During the next twenty nine hours, more than two point six billion gallons of bacteria-laden sewage and runoff poured into the river …’”. This article was written only in June of 2017, that’s almost one year ago. Looking

Racism and Double discrimination One of the many sad things about being an African American woman is that she suffers not just one but double racism as a black and as a woman. Lorraine Hansberry in 1959 wrote a play, Raisin in the Sun, focusing on an African American Family living in the mid 20th century, emphasizing how terrible it is to live as a woman and as black in the United states. It is a play that symbolizes the American society in the 20th century by characters. The play

reported for 2013 and, as with previous homicides, Harris’s case was never classified properly and criminals were never detained. The Chicago Magazine makes an extensive and exciting investigation to reveal to the public the reality behind these incidents that are not being included

Segregation vs. Southern Pride Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” touches on many issues African Americans faced in the early to mid-twentieth century. One can analyze Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” from many angles, and come away with different meanings. While Michelle Gordon focuses more on segregation and housing discrimination that plagued African Americans on Chicago’s Southside in Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun”, William Murray emphasizes on Southern Pride and heritage. This paper

throughout the history. In A Raisin in the Sun, there is one white American who appears. Karl Lindner is a representative of a white neighborhood called Clybourne Park in Chicago. He suggests to the Younger family not to move into his white neighborhood. The neighbors think living separately is better than living together even though they need to buy the Younger family’s house. Karl Lindner’s role in the play is to show the serious housing segregation in Chicago during the 1950s and even in the United

In this essay I will discuss the play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry on racism and gender and how it contributed to the situation the Youngers found themselves in. One of the biggest themes in the play deals with racism, noticeable in the everyday life in Chicago. The Youngers lived in a separated neighbourhood (because of race and gender), and worked as ‘servants’ for white people, Ruth being a housemaid and Walter as a chauffeur. The Youngers obviously lacked the opportunities given

There are many similarities involving the main characters in the books The Great Gatsby and A Raisin in the Sun. For example, they are similar because their entire lives revolve around money. Also, they define their lives by determining what social class they live in. Another main likeness between the two is that they reside in large cities. Which leads to problems that people in rural communities wouldn’t have. On the other hand, they also have major differences. One is wealthy, the other lives