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    has been in the hearts of people all over the United States and even worldwide for many years. It is an ideal that is not limited to age, race, or social standing, but represents family, a secure job, and a house with a car in the garage. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry explores the dreams of the Younger family and how these dreams affect their relationships with one another. Along with dreams and family, another major theme of the book is racial discrimination. These themes intertwine

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    In many stories, characters tend to have many conflicts. That is the case when it comes to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In this story, there are two characters named Ruth and Walter Younger. They are a married couple whose relationship is getting worse and worse each day. Whenever they get into an argument, it always uncertain what will happen after that. Ruth is the wife of Walter Younger, she lives with Mama, Beneatha and her son Travis. She is also expecting a new baby; however

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    Raisin In The Sun Obstacles

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    A Raisin In The Sun, written by Lorraine Hansbury, is a book that shows us many different dreams and different obstacles that can appear in one's life. In the book A Raisin In The Sun the reader is constantly able to see how much Mamma wants to buy a bigger house for her and her family, throughout the story the reader can see different obstacles that come in Mama's way constantly blocking her dream from becoming more than just a dream. Lorraine Hansbury highlights Walter as a main character in A

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    A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry tells the story of a lower-class African American family’s struggle to gain middle-class acceptance when Mama, the sixty-year old mother, receives a $10,000 insurance check from the death of her husband. The drama primarily focuses on how the ten thousand dollars should be spent. Walter Lee Younger, the son, so desperate to better provide for his family, wants to invest all the money into a liquor store with two of his friends. Mama objects and instead

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    parts of their artwork up to the reader's imagination and let them interpret their own meanings and endings behind certain choices made in their piece. That is exactly what Lorraine Hansberry is doing by deciding to end A Raisin in the Sun on a cliffhanger. A Raisin in the Sun is ending with the Younger family beginning to move out of their old house and packing up to move to their newly bought house. The Youngers are moving to Clybourne Park, an all white neighborhood, and are trying to do better

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    Arianna Williams-Smart English 1B Professor Quinn Final Essay The epigraph to A Raisin in the Sun is Langston Hughes' poem called "A Dream Deferred" which was written as an example of life in harlem. The lines are a introduction to the white society's actions to take away equal opportunity from black citizens. Hughes main point is that there could be consequences when people's' frustrations build up or accumulate to the point where they have to either surrender their dreams or allow strenuous

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    In A Raisin In the Sun Lorraine Hansberry uses everyday objects-a plant, money, and a home to symbolize a family's struggle to deal with racism and oppression in their everyday lives, as well as to exemplify their dreams. She begins with a vivid description of the family's weary, small, and dark apartment in Chicago's ghetto Southside during the 1950s. The Youngers are an indigent African-American family who has few choices in their white society. Each individual of the Younger family has a separate

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    In the play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is about a poor African American family named the Younger, they live in a poor one bedroom apartment and they also shared one bathroom with their neighborhood in the Southside of Chicago. In the play A Raisin in the Sun the Younger family were trying so hard to get out of poverty. The three characters that are in the play are Walter Lee Younger Junior, Lena Younger ( “ Mama”), and Ruth Younger this are three characters I'm going to talk about

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    Distinction in David Cooper’s and Yomna Saber’s Critiques of “A Raisin in the Sun” Yomna Saber’s review “Lorraine Hansberry: Defining the Line Between Integration and Assimilation” on Hansberry’s screenplay “A Raisin in the Sun” depicts the struggles of segregation and racism an African American family is thrown into when they receive a large sum of money from an insurance claim. Whereas David Cooper’s review “Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun” on the same screenplay mainly focuses on the tensions caused

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    Walter's dreams were deferred and seemed unachievable because of the racial obstacles he and his family had to put up with throughout the play.A Raisin in the sun is about an African American family who live together in an apartment in chicago.Lorraine Hansberry the playwright, uses the obstacles the family faces to create the dreams each of the family members had, but was put to hold by the hurdles that's been thrown at them.The effect on Ruth finally decided that she wanted the family to move into

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