Lorraine Hansberry

Myles Gregor Ms. Cochran Magnet Civil/Cultures English I Honors 28 October 2016 “A Raisin in the Sun” “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is a play and a movie that reveals the struggles of a dejected family that is in America for their fifth generation in their hometown of Southside, Chicago. Hansberry has brilliantly written this Golden Globe nominated play about the Younger family and how they are barely surviving in their cramped apartment. The play and the movie both represent…

author, Lorraine Hansberry, worked these postulations into a story about the American Dream. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, dreams are motivating in the way they encourage…

The play A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry, and is set in a poverty-stricken, black section of Chicago in the 1950’s. In the passage above, Lena Younger known as Mama, the functioning head of the household, is speaking to her thoroughly demoralized adult son, Walter. Mama’s statement reflects a change of heart she experiences about her role in the Younger family and what she needs to do to protect it. In this passage, Hansberry explores how the control of money in a family…

dreams of Beneatha, Ruth, and Mama in Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun. Beneatha’s dream of becoming a doctor is greatly limited by multiple factors in A Raisin in the Sun. By Beneatha being…

Jamal Elsaghir Eng-132 Joseph Doherty April 21, 2015 Born in Chicago, Illinois on May 19, 1930, Lorraine Hansberry wrote “A raisin in the sun” which was a play about a struggling black family. Lorraine Hansberry was very involved in civil rights and was the first black playwright; unfortunately she died at the young age of 34 from pancreatic cancer. Hansberry was the youngest of four children. Inspiration for writing the play could have been drawn from when Hansberry’s family moved…

her. Which isn’t always the case, and Beneatha never really follows what she says. Ruth is a lot kinder towards Walter and Mama. You never really see Ruth directly being mean to them. Like when Walter goes to Ruth “Who even cares about you” (Lorraine Hansberry 87) she doesn’t say a single mean thing back, she does the opposite by offering him milk. I think Ruth has very different personalities towards different people which is why it’s really quite hard to tell her true character. You could even…

Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, goes through different stages. He is selfish, angry, and ignores his family’s needs when he attempts to own a business, which causes a financial crisis for them. However, he realizes his path to finding a job could be difficult due to discrimination. He probably will have to struggle to be happy financially, and just like Walter, it was difficult for African Americans in the 1950s to accomplish the American Dream. While it is true that Lorraine…

insurance money. In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, the symbol of Mama’s plant and the figurative…

life of the writer in his/her writing either in the form of fiction or real life story. Based on her personal experience, Lorraine Hansberry drama discovers the racial issues , family values , poverty, class differences, identity ,and gender roles. The play is about the different dreams of members of a poor black family living in the south side Chicago, through the…

Amber LaCourt ENG 0235 Professor Jackson 3/25/18 Response Paper #2 Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun” invokes the idea of “anger” and early feminism by expressing the struggles of grasping the American dream during the late 1950s. Characters like Walter Lee and Beneatha Younger symbolize these themes throughout the play. Walter, a husband, and a businessman is struggling to grasp that idea of the American Dream by conveying his authority in the household. However,…