Two literary works which support this quote are A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry and The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, there is a character named Walter Lee. ... Dimmesdale overcomes the gnawing of Chillingworth though, and by using courage he is Stone 3 able to continue loving her no matter what is trying to stop them from being together. ... In conclusion, the quote, "The test of a courageous person is the ability to bear defeat without losing heart", is supported by two works of literature, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorr...

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In Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451 and Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the sun, characters in each story go through some tough times figuring out who they truly are, with community and appreciating the little things characters figure out who they are. ... This quote shows how community is effecting Montag in the book Fahrenheit 451, Clarisse had talked to Montag about how the rain tasted like wine; when Montag caught himself alone, he tried to taste the rain. ... In this quote Hansberry has Mama talking to Beneatha about how she raised her. ... The characters in both Fahren...

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"Harlem" by Langston Hughes reflects the dreams of the characters in Hansberry's, A Raisin in the Sun. ... A Raisin in the Sun is a play with an African-American family whose struggles affect their dreams. Grandmas dream reflects on the poem with the quote "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... When her husband died, her dream seemed to dry up like a raisin in the sun. ... Grandma, Ruth, and Walter from A Raisin in the Sun all show how some dreams turn out. ...

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Title: A Raisin in the Sun Author:Lorraine Hansberry Genre and Literary period After the Depression around 1959 Setting Thaction of the play takes place in the poor South side of Chicago, sometime after World War II, probably around 1959. ... Walter is infuriated and blames Mama for stealing his future from him. ... He is sure that if Mama gives him the money from the insurnce check, he can quadruple the investment. ... In a similar manner, when she learns that the insurance money has been stolen by Willy, she bravely states that the wisest thing to do is give up on the ...

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A Raisin in the Sun was completed and ready to be performed in the theatre in 1959. ... A quote taken from Chronology of Twentieth-Century History: Arts & Culture, volume II stated, "Particularly during the Black arts movement of the 1960s, many African-American artists objects to the realists form of Hansberry's play, which they saw as artistically conservative. ... Robert Neminoff and Charlotte Zaltzberg made Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun a musical in 1973 and entitled it Raisin. ... In 1981, Claudia McNeil, a character in Hansberry's original A Raisin in the Sun, also di...

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And why you see nothing you will see presently. " Although not confirmed, the quote may be regarding man's poor understanding of the elementary and basic nature of the matter on which he lives upon, that is to say, the atom. ... Specifically, the nuclear model states that all the positively-charged particles of the atom and a large part of its atomic mass are concentrated at the center of the atom, the nucleus, while the negatively-charged particles, the electrons, orbit the nucleus as planets orbit the sun at considerable distance. ... Bohr suggested that electrons inhabite...

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He then goes on to describe that he is, or our race is, poor and uneducated, etc But the simple fact remains that we may be beaten down, but we are far from dead (he now is speaking of every race that is or has been persecuted in America). ... Hughes asks and I quote, "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" ... The last question is set apart from the rest. ... The fact that "Harlem" differs from "Let America Be America Again" means that Hughes merely grew up. ...

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Reading African American literature ranging from spirituals and slave narratives, to works written during and after the Civil Rights Movement provides readers and scholars with a rare insight into the minds and lives of African Americans at that time. ... Dubois explains this perfectly when he stated: "One ever feels his two-ness, -am American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strengths alone keeps it from being torn asunder...... African Americans could identify with the indigenous peoples from any colonized ...

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