You are a family of 5 living in the same household‚ you have 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
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A Raisin In The Sun In this play‚ A Raisin In The Sun‚ the Author Lorraine Hansberry shows how dreams are being chased‚ how important money could be‚ and how the race could make a difference. Everybody may have their own dream‚ different point of view on money‚ and may be a different race‚ but all those terms can be relatable. This Chicago family has experienced it all throughout this play. In the play A Raisin In the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry‚ the characters all had their own dreams that
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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 is about a black family that lives in a small apartment and is trying to make everything work out. The importance‚ people may think is to show no matter what is just to try and get whatever you aspire to get in life. Beneatha had a dream of being a doctor but it did not come true when the family lost all it’s money. In Lorraine Hansberry’s‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ Beneatha is described as a beautiful woman. (She is about twenty‚ as slim and intense as her brother. She is not as
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A Raisin in the Sun - Money Where money is but an illusion and all it brings are nothing but dreams‚ one family struggles to discover that wealth can be found in other forms. In the play "A Raisin in the Sun‚" Lorraine Hansberry uses the indirect characterization of the Younger family through their acquaintances to reveal that money and materialism alone are worthless. Living in a society where the fulfillment of dreams is based upon material wealth‚ the Younger family strives
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Beneatha 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
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A Raisin in the Sun is a play written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. This play is about a lower class African American family dealing with their living conditions on the Southside of Chicago. The title of the play was inspired by the poem A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes. Hughes’ poem describes the differing paths people take in life. This idea is displayed throughout the play as every character has different aspirations in life and will do whatever they can to accomplish their goals. For this
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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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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‚ generation after generation comes to an end when the Younger family receives
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centers around recently widowed‚ Ramatoulaye in the form of a letter to her friend Aissatou. Ramatoulaye discusses her emotional struggle when‚ the traditions of polygamy allowed her husband to marry her daughters friend. Another good read‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ is about the Youngers family who are going through the daily struggles of an African-American family in the 1950’s. The play addresses the money problems Walter Younger goes through and‚ the struggle of being “the man of the house.” The issues
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