Dreams Don't always come true Loraine Hansberry gives a more complicated look at dreams than John Steinbeck: some come true, while others "dry up like a raisin in the sun." In the play A Raisin in The Sun, she describes how non selfish dreams that effect more than one person come true, while dreams that are only for personal reasons, don't. ... All Momma wanted was a nice house, in a nice neighborhood, with a little garden in the backyard where her family could all live together happily. " Been thinking we could meet the notes on a little old two story, with a yard for litt...

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Dreams Deferred in Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry, the author of A Raisin in the Sun, supports the theme of her play from a montage of, A Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes. ... That it might "dry up like a raisin in the sun,"" or "fester like a sore."" ... She dreams for a new house with a garden and she is ecstatic when she can finally put a down payment on one: "MAMA: we maybe could meet the notes on a little old two-story somewhere, with a yard where Travis could play in the summertime (I.i pg. 44)."" ...

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The slave owners had them picking cotton in the hot sun, living in shacks, being whipped if they read or didn't listen to their masters and the females wore being raped by their slave owners. ... The techniques from this music, the slurring and bending of notes, the wild falsetto cries and the like, became common features of jazz as both an instrumental and vocal music...

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