A Raisin in the Sun Essay

A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, an African-American family on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s struggling to support themselves each and every day from paycheck to paycheck. When the play opens, the Youngers are waiting to receive an insurance check which comes from the deceased Patriarch of the Younger family, Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy. Mama and Walter have an idea as to what he or she would like to do with the money they are about to…

Why should anyone’s dream be deferred? Everyone should have equal rights despite their race, religion, skin color, gender, et cetera. In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, members of the Youngers family had their dreams deferred. The Youngers family faced many struggles, but it was all futile because in the end, they could not achieve their dream. Walter jr. was born around 1905, where the Plessy versus Ferguson law had been recently passed. This left him, a black person,…

A Raisin In The Sun Ending At the end of the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, the family is getting ready to move into their new home. Although the family just lost all of their money, this is a happy ending to the story. Walter is the most upset about losing the money and he is also the reasoning behind it, but it’s his decision to move into the house instead of sell it to Mr. Lindner. Before Mr. Lindner got to the families home, Walter planned on selling the house to him. Even…

seen as indifferent to the qualities of men, specifically their husbands and fathers. Blacks are deprived of rights compared to those given to the whites, however, black women are further neglected to receive freedom and liberation. The play, “Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry, takes the stereotypical beliefs of womanhood and conveys their prominence in the agriculture of 1940s through the actions of the characters. A common belief of an American wife during the 1940s is to clean the…

A Raisin in the Sun Title Controversy; Emotion v. Plot Titles are not to be taken lightly as they are what a reader keeps in mind throughout a piece. “Mother to Son” and “Harlem” are both written by Langston Hughes and portray the struggles of maintaining a dream during difficult times. “Mother to Son” uses the extended metaphor of a staircase that parallels the struggles and overall actions in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, while “Harlem” uses graphic images in order to…

A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by a lady named Lorraine Hansberry, who wrote the play to mimic how she grew up in the 1930s. Her purpose for the play was to expose how life was for a segregated black family during the pre-civil rights era. Hansberry introduces us to a family, called the Youngers, which includes Mama, Walter, Beneatha, Ruth, and Travis. The play takes us through the struggles of the family, which includes many social issues. The social issues that Hansberry exposed in A…

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a drama about the conflicts of one African American family in the inner city of southern Chicago during the 1950s. The Youngers, a family of five, live in a small run-down apartment and face the conflicts that not only go with living with extended family, but those that go with living with racism in the slums of the inner city. Lena, also known as Mama, is the wise single mother and Grandmother in the family who dedicates her life to her children and…

Life in 1950's America wasn't like Leave it to Beaver for everybody, author of the play “Raisin in the Sun” Hansberry takes you into a cramped little apartment to show you that big dreams can live in even the smallest most oppressed places. Hansberry, shows the struggles and dreams of a black family and each member and where they are coming from and why it wasn’t always possible for those dreams to be fulfilled in pre-civil rights America. Hansberry shows that one family can have many different…

Men, to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, this question is always posed: who, if anyone, and under is the American Dream possible for, and under what circumstances? This question is explored in Lorraine Hansberry's 1958 play, A Raisin in the Sun. A Raisin in the Sun follows an African-American family living in Chicago’s South side after they receive a large sum of money in the form of a life insurance check. The Younger family debates what to do with the money, and eventually end up…

A raisin in the sun is a classic novel filled characters that are enriched in development as the story progresses. The story focuses on the on a poor black family from Chicago in the year 1950s. This was before the civil rights act was signed so racism and discrimination was still expressed freely in the public. One of the main characters from the book, Walter is a relatively young man who wants to own his own liquor store to provide a living for his family. He believes that money is life and…