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Raisin In The Sun Movie
Raising in the sun

Walter I have dissected something that looked like you yesterday”(30). This statement made by Beneatha to her brother Walter was missing from the new movie. the novel A Raisin in the Sun was a story of hope, legacy, racism and dreams for individual people and how they want to achieve them. It is a book that tell you the story of African American people in the 1940’s and what little they had back then and how hard they had to work to achieve their goals.There is more than one movie of Raisin in the sun but the black and white is the best. All the others movie they take out some of the important scene and then they don’t portray what Lorraine Hansberry's vision was of her experience in Chicago.The black and white movie best portrays Lorraine Hansberry's vision of her experience in Chicago during the 1940s because it
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The old movie Travis in and Walter talk about dream, and Walter told Travis that he need to get a bigger dream than being a bus driver. The reason why I pick Travis is because there was a scene where he was outside playing with a rat and not playing soccer or basketball like the white kids. This scene is important because it shows the condition of how African American did not have the privilege to do things like the white kids. So that shows what Lorraine Hansberry trying to say, but in the new movie they did not have that scene which was important to the main theme of the story.Travis is very important to meaning of the story. The black and white version showing what Lorraine Hansberry trying to say.This topic is important because it can show people that the littlest thing can make a difference, and change how people look at the world, and see how African American thrive through hope and dreams “No ….. Something has changed you something new, boy. In my time we was worried about not being lynched and getting to the North if we could and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity.The old movie show

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