"Living conditions in a raisin in the sun" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 41 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    A Raisin in the Sun an interesting play by Lorraine Hansberry. Showed the importance of family and the value of dreams and hops for each member of the household. This play revolves around a poor African-American family who live on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. The youngers family Lena‚ Beneatha ‚ Walter ‚ Ruth and their son Travis all lived under the same apartment in a dilapidated bedroom . Walter and his wife‚ Ruth share one room while their son sleeps on the sofa‚ on the other hand‚

    Premium A Raisin in the Sun African American Family

    • 399 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The play A Raisin in the Sun By Lorraine Hansberry‚ Mama and Walter Lee argue a lot‚ mostly about money and how the family should be raised and who should lead the family. For example‚ In the play Mama and Walter Lee argue mostly about the life insurance money‚ Walters dad’s insurance money to be exact. Walter Lee dreams of owning a business‚ but his first chance of owning a business is lost (Hansberry 32). He wants to own part of a liquor store‚ but‚ Mama disagrees with this choice‚ saying “...And

    Premium Family Marriage Mother

    • 618 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    workers‚plantation life in Hawaii in the 1800’s was extremely hard.Living conditions were terrible‚disgusting and unsanitary‚too small for the amount of people fit in the barracks;Working conditions were hard;painful and the salary was way too low‚and the race discrimination and gender difference were unfair‚while the worst jobs were given to the Asians‚and the best jobs were given to the whites and Portuguese. Living conditions were disgusting‚unsanitary‚too small‚and terrible.Most were miserable under

    Premium United States Hawaii Native Americans in the United States

    • 805 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The poor living conditions were the fundamental factor contributing to the psychological issues of the Japanese prisoner of World War Two inmates? To what extent is this true? Early in World War Two the Japanese made a swift move on much of Asia. They set out to take anything they could and made huge progress into the war. They took many prisoners of war in the early stages of their assault. Once Java collapsed and was forced to surrender it was only a matter of time before the Japanese expanded

    Premium World War II Japan United States

    • 1003 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Walter Lee: frustrated‚ angry‚ quixotic. Do you have a dream or an idea that you think would work but no one else understands? If you do‚ then you would get along with Walter Lee Younger wonderfully. Set entirely in the Younger living room‚ this play takes place in a run-down apartment in the South side of Chicago during the middle of the twentieth century. Three generations of the family live in this crowded space. Walter Lee Younger is a chauffeur and Lena’s son. He is a slim‚ intense‚ thirty-five

    Premium

    • 1048 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    LDC Final Essay : Module One Have you every heard of a dream? Did you every think about how they van effect you? Or did you every think about how they differ or come true? In A Raisin I n The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Mama is one of the characters and she has many conflicts for example one them was she thought about her dream. In addition to her to a lot of other thing on her mind like what she wanted to do with the money. “A little drily‚ doubting the total sincerity

    Premium Family Mother Father

    • 383 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Many people have dreams that they want to accomplish. In A Raisin in the Sun‚ characters have a goal. Walter’s passion is to own a liquor store because he wants to be an entrepreneur. Beneatha’s dream is to become a doctor to help cure people. Mama pursues her dream of having a garden and a house. Each person’s aspiration is important to them. Thesis At first‚ all Walter seems to care about is owning a liquor store with his two friends‚ Willy and Bobo. For example‚ one way he is trying to attempt

    Premium A Raisin in the Sun Family Race

    • 858 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun‚” was a radically new representation of black life‚ resolutely authentic‚ fiercely unsentimental‚ and unflinching in its vision of what happens to people whose dreams are constantly deferred. I compared Act One‚ Scene 2‚ in the play and the film. The setting in the play is on a Saturday morning‚ and house cleaning is in process at the Youngers. In the film‚ the setting is the same as play‚ with lighting and costumes. The plot in the play is when

    Premium Character Literature Fiction

    • 711 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The 1950s was a time of ongoing struggle against racism and segregation. An African American woman during these times faced many obstacles‚ and it was increasingly difficult to pursue her dreams. Lorraine Hansberry’s drama‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ focuses on the conflicts that the Younger family face due to a $10‚000 insurance check that has the potential to improve their lives immensely. For Beneatha Younger‚ this check is the key to moving forward and achieving her dream of becoming a doctor. Beneatha

    Premium A Raisin in the Sun Family

    • 905 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    working and living conditions during the industrial revolution -Extremely bad. -In the book " The Jungle " by Upton Sinclair‚ the author detailed the appalling conditions faced by the workers of the meat-packaging industry. "There were men who worked in the cooking rooms‚ in the midst of steam and sickening odors‚ by artificial light; in these rooms the germs of tuberculosis might live for two years‚ but the supply was renewed every hour. There were the beef-luggers‚ who carried two-hundred-pound

    Premium Industrial Revolution Upton Sinclair The Jungle

    • 436 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 50