Lorraine Hansberry wove a woeful tale of a family called the Youngers, A poor black family living in a tiny run-down apartment, in her novel A Raisin in the Sun. She based the name on the Langston Hughes poem "Harlem." She found the title appropriate to portray the way of life lived out by the Young...
The title of the play "A Raisin in the Sun" comes from a line in a Langston Hughes poem: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun" (Tackach 5/6)? Lorraine Hansberry's play confronts crucial issues that have faced African Americans: the fragmentation of the family,...