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    Vasile Tudor Garbulet Professor R. Boyd English 2331 6 January 2013 A Raisin in the Sun ~ sequel by Vasile Garbulet ~ -Well Mr. and Ms. Kelly‚ this is the house. It has three bedrooms‚ a large kitchen‚ a living room with chimney and a beautiful backyard with lots of flowers. -Indeed Mr. Younger‚ this is a beautiful house‚ but tell us more about it. You said you’re the son of its previous owner. And did you live here for the last ten years? -Yes. My grandmother paid ten years ago a down payment

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    In fiction‚ this can be represented by a scene in the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ in which a moving family of African-Americans are rejected by the existing residents of their destination. They even go so far as to send a man to say that they aren’t wanted‚ but they can move into this lovely all-black

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    A Raisin in the sun talks about the racial and social struggle 1950s and 1960s. The racial segregation is the main topic companying the human conflict centered on the family Younger in Chicago. One could argue that the play was written as a silent‚ cultural protest against the racial segregation when it comes to rights for living spaces. The play started with family Younger´s life in a small apartment with the following main characters: Walter Younger‚ his wife Ruth‚ his son Travis‚ his sister Beneatha

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    The Perfect Storm The reoccurring theme of alcohol in A Raisin in the Sun manifests itself in Walter’s mind and he becomes metaphorically drunk‚ resulting in a clouded consciousness and a distorted reality of what his family stands for and what is truly best for them. Along the way he will do anything to achieve his goal and even guilt’s his mother into becoming an enabler to his new found addiction. The progression of this impairment deepens in the same way an alcoholic’s would until Walter hits

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    Brianna Gervickas February 20‚ 2013 Period 4 Analytical Essay Do you value your pride more than money? In the play‚ A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ An African American family is struggling in a inadequate worn down apartment trying to make a living. Mama‚ the eldest of the family‚ is going to receive a check for 10‚000 and the family is ecstatic for its arrival. Walter Lee

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    Barrett Bleeden Period 2 Hope for the Future When the curtain falls and Lorraine Hansberry’s play‚ A Raisin in the Sun comes to an end‚ do the Youngers‚ moving into an all white neighborhood‚ have a glimmer of hope in their future? For many years‚ even before the story begins‚ the Youngers seem to know what their future was going to consist of: working for the white man and cleaning their apartment that is constantly encumbered in filth. This drab thought of this family’s existence

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    Angela Olsen English 102 ONLN 3 Professor Thea Howey May 3‚ 2013 Female Gender in A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry was a forward thinker for her time in the 1950’s‚ which was evident in her writing. “It is believed that hidden behind her work was Hansberry’s own personal struggle with gender” (Wiener 10-11). After many years of marriage and eventually divorce‚ it was discovered that she was a closet homosexual (Wiener 11). Male and female gender roles are heated topics that have been

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    CHAPTER III: The Impact of Identity on Dreams – 1. Identity in the Sight of Other People In actual fact‚ people have a certain view or conception about what somebody is. This view is quite different from what the individual himself has. But then the harm in all this is that this state of affairs has a great impact on what an individual is supposed to become in life especially when he doesn’t have a great sense of objectivity or when he is not determined to achieve his life goal regardless

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    Beneatha‚ A Raisin in the Sun I used this quote to support my idea because she is telling everyone that she is going to be a doctor no matter. “thank everybody! And forgive me for ever

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    While Antigone by Sophocles and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry are very difference stories they have many similarities. Antigone is the about daughter of Oedipus trying to do what she believes is good. Her brothers have killed each other and while one gets a proper burial‚ the other is left to be eaten by wild animals. The reason he is not allowed to be buried is because King Creon believes he is unworthy of it. The main character Antigone defies Creon’s law and buries her brother anyways

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