A Raisin in the Sun is a drama‚ a play‚ and a book that can reshape the way you think about people who are important to you. This magnificent story symbolizes how a family can go through a rough patch and at the end of the day continue to love and aid each other despite the circumstances. The Younger’s believe that family is important whether they say it out loud or throughout their actions. In the story Ruth finds out that she is expecting a baby. She contemplates an abortion‚ not because she wants
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A Raisin In The Sun Analysis Paper The play‚ “A Raisin In The Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is very unique in that it focuses upon many central themes. These themes are clearly shown throughout the play‚ and affect the meaning of the work as a whole. One of these main themes is the importance of family. This is one of the main points shown throughout the play and is definitely tied to an illuminating incident‚ where the meaning is shown strongest at a certain moment of the play. The illuminating
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A Raisin in the Sun – Mama Mama has dreams for her family to rise from poverty and live in a better and bigger place and also for them to continue to grow together as a family. Mama has a plant that she also cares for. She takes care of this plant as if it was one of her own children. Mama’s children also have their own dreams and their own plans on how to attain those dreams. The family’s competing dreams are emphasized by Hansberry’s recurring use of the motif--Mama’s plant. In the
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11 Baptist 4 March 2014 Raisin in the Sun The play “A Raisin in the Sun‚” by Lorraine Hansberry is set in between WWII and the present time. The Youngers family of five has lived their lives struggling for money and now that a $10‚000 insurance check is inherited more problems will arise. The American dream means something different to each adult in the family‚ however‚ Walter and his mothers are so dissimilar they conflict with each other numerous times. Walter spends a great amount of his
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The play‚ A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ is about a family that lives in a cramped apartment in Chicago. One of the characters‚ Ruth Younger‚ finds out that she is pregnant. A child is a lot of responsibility and are very costly. The Younger family is stressed as it is‚ bringing a new baby into the mix may not be wise. Ruth struggles with these issues over the course of the play. At the beginning of the play‚ the relationship between Ruth and her children is fairly tense. The Younger
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Younger is a strong-willed‚ independent‚ young woman who knows exactly what she wants and she’ll keep fighting till she obtains it. She dreams of being an African-American Doctor which is very rare in her day’s time. Conflict arises when her brother‚ Walter Younger‚ loses the money for Beneatha to go to medical school in a investment incident. She thinks very highly of herself and puts herself before others. Acting as a comedic element‚ Beneatha’s name itself is a play on words because she views everyone
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just received ten grand from an insurance check from a deceased parent. "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry is a story about a poor family who is living in the southside of Chicago and has just been given an insurance check from their father and Mrs.Younger’s (aka Mama) husband. The check was for $10‚000 which they have been trying to figure out what they are going to be doing with it. Mama‚ Beneatha‚ and Walter all have a dream of what they want to spend the money on but they can’t come
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Struggling for the Dream in A Raisin in the Sun Set in a cramped apartment in poverty-striken Southside Chicago‚ Lorraine Hansberry‚ through realistic slang‚ accounts the struggles of five black family members battling against racism to attain middle-class acceptance during 1959. After Walter Younger’s business "partner" skipped town with a portion of the family’s $10‚000 inheritance money‚ the desolate son returns home to break the news to his family that their hopes for the future have been
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A Raisin in the Sun “Success” Success. Webster’s dictionary defines it as “The achievement of something desired‚ planned‚ or attempted; the gaining of fame or prosperity.”Although to truly understand the meaning of success‚ one needs to understand the relationship between success and goals. Success can simply be accomplishing your goals‚ but can also have a deeper meaning‚ such as personal growth. In the book A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the Younger’s‚ Walter and Lena especially‚
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Dreams‚ hopes‚ plans‚ race‚ and pride these are just many of the themes in the play A Raisin in the Sun. The play is about the Youngers an African American family who live in the South Side of Chicago. The Youngers were a big family there was Ruth Younger‚ Travis Younger‚ Walter Lee Younger‚ Beneatha Younger‚ and Mama Younger. All of them lived in a small crammed apartment that was in a poor neighborhood. The Youngers got a check in the mail for $10‚000 and that was their chance to move into a bigger
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