is the question that the poem by Langston Hughes asks. In this essay I will try to answer that question to which the action of the play suggests. ... There is a line in the poem that says, "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"(Referring to a dream deferred), this line relates to the play because, Walter's dream of owning a liquor store is kind of like a raisin in the sun, dried up. ...

• Word Count: 454
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"In A Raisin in the Sun", Lorraine Hansberry wants to portray segregation "the self-enforced separation of the whites and the blacks in housing neighborhoods that were legal and widespread throughout the Southern and Northern states of America. ... She tells her mother that "A Raisin in the Sun" is a play that tells the truth about people, Negroes and life and I think it will help a lot of people to understand how we are just as complicated and mixed up as they are " (Adams 1). ... A Raisin in the Sun is a play about dreams and how an individual's dream can come into conflict with ano...

• Word Count: 1609
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

The opening sentence is the question, "What happens to a dream deferred?"... "Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?"... That raisin, left in the sun will dry out, thus making it impossible to eat. ... The slaves were forced to labor day in and day out in the hot sun, picking cotton, or whatever jobs their "master" forced upon them. ...

• Word Count: 1067
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School