A Raisin in the Sun takes place in the slums of Chicago post World War II. ... This alludes to the fact that regardless of the effort made, Mama's dream still hasn't come true and is at risk of drying up like a "raisin in the sun.... Hansberry was able to pull from one of his metaphors to better exemplify a major theme in "A Raisin in the Sun." We may not immediately refer to broken dreams as raisins, festering sores, or rotting meat; but these metaphors serve as cautionary statements to personify the consequences of not acting on your dreams. Both "Harlem" ...

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"A Raisin in the Sun" Lorraine Hansberry wrote the award winning play" A Raisin in the Sun." ... Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ... He wonders if they shrivel up like a "raisin in the sun". ...

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Maybe the dream breaks up like a raisin, damaged and old, but the essence of it is still intact. ... The poem suggests the inevitability of violence if racial cruelty is allowed to continue and A Raisin in the Sun first appears at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. ... Something that makes Hughes" poem so poetic is his reference to the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. ... Hughes also asks the question: "Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?" ...

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In the 1920s following World War I, an entire generation of Afro-Americans moved to the north of the United States, to Harlem, considered as the greatest Black city in the world. This generation, known as the Harlem renaissance, was enlightened by folk sources such as black music and black literatur...

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