A Raisin in the Sun deals with many issues but none more than Prejudice's--the act of pre-judging something. The Caucasian or white population in the story were one of the prejudice groups. They try to strong arm the Youngers out of their neighborhood. Walter is also constantly talking about how the...
A raisin in the sun really did a good job in addressing race inequality and gender equality in the 1950s. Beneatha had dreams of becoming a doctor, very few woman aspired to be doctors especially not black women. She is determined to realize her aspirations regardless of what other people think. Eve...
Although A Raisin in the Sun resembles the events of Hansberry's life, the play is filled with hope and sends a positive message about desegregation. Hansberry's lives are similar to the Younger's in the play. The Hansberrys happened to live during a time where segregation was a really big issue....
"A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry is a revolutionary work for its time. It is one of the first plays involving a black family that tried to focus on a mostly black audience in the United States during the Nineteen fifties and sixties. Before this play was released the roles from black pe...
Raisin in the Sun is a play that has many themes on pride and dreams. Everybody has the right to dream and the right to make their dreams come true. Every members of the Younger family has their own dreams and their own ways to do it. Because they have dreams, the Youngers rebel against the position...
With the success in 1959 of A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry became the first black woman to win the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play. ... The characters in Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun are Universal in their Attempts to achieve their dreams. ...
Beautiful, also, is the sun. ... The poet answers the question in an indirect way using similes to show what might happen as in "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" the word "Raisin" a nutritious and useful fruit, Hughes adds "Dry up [] in the sun" thus turning the "raisin" into something hard and no logger useful. ...
Just Another Girl on the IRT We fall down, but our strength is determined by how strong we are when we get up. Just Another Girl On the IRT is a film about the strength and determination of one young girl and a black family. In the film, a 17-year old girl's dreams are deferred but, her dreams d...
Chicago South Side During and after World War II many changes took place in America, but one of the most significant changes that occurred was the racial tension between blacks and whites. Chicago was especially one of the cities that experienced such extreme tensions. Many southern blacks mov...
Set in a cramped apartment in poverty-striken Southside Chicago, Lorraine Hansberry, through slang, accounts the struggles of five black family members battling against racism to attain middle-class acceptance during 1959. After Walter Younger's business "partner" skipped town with a portion of the family's $10,000 inheritance money, the news is broken infront of his family that their hopes for the future have been stolen and their dreams for a better life were destroyed. Trying to get his family to forgive him, Walter refuses to sell-out his race to the prejudiced white Clybourne P...
