A Raisin in the Sun is a story portraying the life of the Younger family. The Younger family is a black family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950’s. After the death of there father, the family receives an insurance policy of $10,000. This is the beginning of a family’s fight to find their way in life. This fight will lead them to realize what is most important in life. The mother in the story is a strong willed but loving and nurturing to her children. She only has the best wishes for her family. As with most African American families of today, the mother or the grandmother is the backbone and quite often are in control of their family.
As portrayed in the story, the average African American male is in a continued struggle to take care of their family and do well to support them selves. Often having less education and lower paying wages they will do whatever is necessary to make sure their family is taken care of. Often there plans do not always workout for their family however, they continue to try to come up with ways allowing them to live a more comfortable life. The family are often against this type of behavior, knowing it will hurt them, but they try to do so without hurting the males.
When there are siblings involved in the family’s future the sister is usually more academically driven than the brother simply because the bothers main concern is his family, more often overlooking educations as it does not have immediate results. There is always friction between
The two most underlining themes in the Raisin in the Sun are the importance of family and the importance to fight racial segregation. These ideas are expressed throughout the novel with symbols such as Mama’s plant that she cares for and purchase of a new home in a predominately white neighborhood. Mama is the one that believes firmly in these messages throughout the novel while she tries to get the others to believe in them as well. Mama’s plant is used to express tension and uneasiness within…
ENC1102 May 1, 2015 Word Count: 445 A Raisin in the Sun In the play, “A Raisin in the Sun,” by author Lorraine Hansberry, Beneatha is a character who is consistently struggling with her own image. For instance, Lena and Ruth were teasing Beneatha because she always pickups different activities but then merely just quits them; like playing the guitar. Beneatha tries to explain to her family that she is merely attempting to “express herself” and at this moment both Ruth and Lena Laugh. Beneatha is…
Analytical Review A Raisin in the Sun portrays an African American family, the Younger’s, living in the south side of Chicago during the 1950’s. Both the play written in 1959 by Lorraine Hansberry and the film directed in 2008 by Kenny Leon did a spectacular job exemplifying the struggles the Younger family faced and how they overcame them and became better people. Due to the passing of the man of the house, Mr. Younger, the family receives a life insurance check for $10,000. Although all of the…
take things step by step, dont rush. Greediness is another thing too, you may want something so bad but remember not to drag others down to get it. There are others out there just like you looking for a better and brighter future. In the play A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha, Walter and Mama are dreaming about a better life in the future due to the money that Walter Sr. has left the family. Beneatha is the youngest of Walter Sr. and Mama's children so she has been growing up more in modern times compared…
Raisin In The Sun—The Continually Compelling Drama Raisin In The Sun—a play written by Lorraine Hansberry—appeared nearly 50 years ago on Broadway. Raisin In The Sun confronts, racism, grief, power struggle, gender discrimination and the thirst for money all within a two-hour play. The themes discussed previously are still very prevalent in today’s society, as they were to the characters in the play; which makes Raisin In The sun a continually compelling drama today. Throughout Hansberry’s play…
A Raisin the Sun Many people has problems, but what u may need to do is relieve yourself from these issues by having basic safety, love and self- esteem needs, so look at yourself and question, do u have this? Whether or not if you do, I have something discuss about that and this applies to all people actually and not just yourself and I will even resort to a play to show this theory that a physiologist named Abraham Maslow developed from a pyramid he has developed called the Hierarchy of Needs.…
Beneatha’s Journey (From Grape to Raisin) Taylor Swift’s song, “Never Grow Up,” shows what must be going through Beneatha Younger’s head in the novel, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. As much as this twenty-year old wants to stay a child and continue life the way it is, she still wants to thrive and become a doctor. This proves to be difficult in her life because of the lack of money and ambition that the most of the Younger family has, which changes when they receive their ten-thousand…
Leydi Bautista Period 4 May 28th, 2015 “A Raisin in the Sun” “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is a play written in the 1950’s about the Younger’s, a poor black family living in Chicago whose dreams have been deferred. Due to their poor living standards and the racism still happening at this time they’ve put their dreams aside. When they receive an abundant amount of money from Lena’s husband's death, it seems as all their dreams are possible…
Monica Gryszowka 15 October 2014 “A Raisin in the Sun” Play Analysis Everyone seems to know the "American Dream" as living a life of freedom, it is having the chance of achieving success and being prosperous which is attained through hard work. It is having a beautiful home with a white picket fence and a happy family to come home to after the hard work that is put into living the dream. It is inevitable that everyone has their own dreams that they want to achieve but there are always some…
~A Raisin in the Sun~ It is common knowledge that money doesn’t buy happiness. Or does it? The classic play, “A Raisin in the Sun”, by Lorraine Hansberry seems to analysis this idea. The play tells the story of the Youngers, a poor African American family, who are awaiting the arrival of a $10,000 insurance check. This check arouses great tension and conflict within the family. Clearly you can tell that money is a central theme in the plot. Each character has a different idea of what to do with…
