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A Raisin in the Sun
One of the features that makes Walter Younger a dynamic, round character is that he is constantly plagued by doubts about the correct path to take. Throughout the course of the play, Lorraine...
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A Raisin in the Sun
"A Raisin in the Sun" is a 1959 award-winning play by Lorraine Hansberry, notable for being the first play by an African-American woman to appear on Broadway. In the play, the Younger family is...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The four main characters of this excellent play are Mama, Walter, Ruth and Beneatha. Each of them have a different dream for their lives, and in some cases it is clear that they have more than one...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Shortly after George Murchison enters the Younger family’s apartment, he gets into a heated argument with Beneatha over their African heritage. Unlike Beneatha, George does not respect or revere...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In literature there is a fine line between saying a character is a "symbol" and recognizing that authors always use characters to express ideas and to represent concepts that are part of a work's...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lena Younger is a genuine, selfless woman who wants what is best for her family. Lena Younger is also extremely humble and could never imagine possessing ten thousand dollars. She dreams of using...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Hansberry challenges the stereotype that is associated with her subject matter in a couple of ways. The first way is that she shows the Younger family as challenged by the issues of class and...
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A Raisin in the Sun
I think that you can make the analysis that Walter's dream is supplanted by a new vision that is realized at the end of the play. Walter's original dream to open up a liquor store with the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In act two, scene two, Walter Jr. remains depressed and intoxicated after learning that his dreams will never come to fruition. After Lena bought the home in Clybourne Park, Walter realized that...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The play A Raisin in the Sun is still relevant. There are still people who have dreams that are yet to come true. As long as their are people who dream, there will be relevance in a play like A...
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A Raisin in the Sun
At the end of the play, Mr. Lindner visits the Younger family's apartment, prepared to make a deal in order to buy Lena's home back. Initially, Walter Jr. plans on selling the home back to the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The character who changes the most is Walter Younger, Jr. One of the most important things about Walter’s transformation is that he is an adult whose views seem to have been set and, throughout...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The earlier film version of A Raisin in the Sun (1961) was made at a time when Hollywood had only recently begun to allow realistic portrayals of African American characters, moving away from the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The most obvious conflict is that of racism and prejudice. The Youngers are a black family moving into a white neighborhood. The neighbors try to pay them to move away and then resort to...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Beneatha seems to be looking for a man who can give her a sense of security and self-worth. Both of these qualities have been notable in their absence from Beneatha's life since her brother Walter...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The primary theme of Langston Hughes's celebrated poem "Harlem" concerns the nature of deferred dreams regarding the plight of African Americans. The title of Hansberry's classic play is taken from...
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A Raisin in the Sun
I think one thing that you need to consider is the specificity of your question. When you say "The Bible", do you specifically mean the religious text, or do you generally mean the Christian...
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A Raisin in the Sun
During breakfast, Travis asks his mother for fifty cents and tells her that his teacher requires them to bring in money today. Ruth understands that her family cannot afford to waste fifty cents...
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A Raisin in the Sun
To begin, A Raisin in the Sun is a play by American playwright Lorraine Hansberry from 1959. It was inspired by a poem by Langston Hughes, an American poet who often wrote, as Hansberry did, about...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Money plays an essential role in the play, A Raisin in the Sun. It is Hansberry's progressive and advanced attitude about American discrimination that she does a very skilled job of articulating...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Mr. Lindner has come to pay a visit to Walter and his family to tell them that he wants to buy their newly-acquired property in order to stop them moving into their new neighborhood. Lindner...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lena Younger's first time meeting Beneatha's friend and love interest, Joseph Asagai, is ironic. Before meeting Joseph Asagai, Lena struggles to pronounce his name and mistakes Nigeria, where...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In A Raisin in the Sun, Mama's husband Mr. Younger was a proud man. He worked hard and he too had dreams of bettering himself. He and Mama dreamed of owning their own house. Mama and her husband...
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A Raisin in the Sun
It's always been Beneatha's dream to go to medical school and become a doctor. Unfortunately, her dreams of educational and professional achievement are shattered when her brother Walter loses...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Joseph Asagai is a passionate African student who courts Beneatha and attempts to motivate her to connect with her African roots. Asagai is portrayed as a charming, intelligent man who has a...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The absence of light in the cramped and dingy apartment where the Youngers live signify's a dreary future. This becomes especially clear when the darkness of the current apartment is juxtaposed to...
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A Raisin in the Sun
To begin to write an essay, a scholar must first choose their topic and identify a thesis statement. In this case, the essay prompts us to consider the "most important" symbol in A Raisin in the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
I would say that the ending is a relatively happy one. Walter has stood up for his family, showing more commitment and veracity than he had previously shown at any other time in the work. At the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Stage directions are a form of direct characterization, a method of revealing information about characters by telling readers, rather than showing them, what the characters are like. Authors show...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In rejecting the idea of a happy ending, Lorraine Hansberry was both encouraging readers and viewers to understand her play within the broader context of social changes in the 1950s and emphasizing...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Let's start with Mama's plant. This plant shows a great example of symbolism. Mama is completely devoted to this houseplant. As with her family, she provides constant care and nurture to the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
These two characters work nicely for both comparison and contrast. They share many commonalities yet are also very different people in the play. Beginning with similarities that connect Walter and...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Joseph Asagai is an African student who courts Beneatha and has a zealous conviction for improving his homeland of Africa. Beneatha is attracted to Joseph's compassionate, sensitive personality and...
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A Raisin in the Sun
At first, Linder uses language to try to build a sense of commonality. He comes under the pretense of the "Welcoming Committee" when he is really there to do the opposite. But he believes in the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Reading or viewing A Raisin in the Sun from the perspective of the 21st century, we have the advantage of knowing what changes occurred in the United States since the mid 1940s–late 1950s, when...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Beneatha is referring to what Ms. Johnson is symbolic of, which is the attitude of some black folks to resent people of their race who attempt to better their class position. It is very clear that...
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A Raisin in the Sun
I think that the most significant element of Walter's change is that he ends up becoming a transcendent figure by the end of the drama. At the start of the drama, he is hopeless in his temporality...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Walter Jr. is depicted as a desperate dreamer who is fed up with his current occupation and desires to become a successful businessman. Walter Jr. dreams of using Mama's insurance money to invest...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Walter and Beneatha have a strained relationship. They quarrel constantly. Walter is upset that his mother wants to give Beneatha college money to become a doctor. He thinks Beneatha is dreaming...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Both Dee from Walker's "Everyday Use" and Beneatha from Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun learn from their education that their cultural heritage is rooted in African traditions. Dee is the only...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Ruth, in my opinion, is one of the most interesting characters in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. She comes off as a simple woman but is quite astute. It often seems that she's holding...
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A Raisin in the Sun
George is wealthy and college-educated, but Beneatha feels that his values are superficial. The differences between them are illustrated in his negative reaction when he seas Beneatha dancing in...
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A Raisin in the Sun
This play is, essentially, about a working class family trying to survive in a world where the odds seem stacked against them and where each of them have their own dreams that they are trying to...
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A Raisin in the Sun
When Beneatha speaks of George Murchison, she speaks "with displeasure" and calls him "shallow" (Act I, sc. i). She feels that George sees himself as better than the Younger family because his...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The theme of poverty contributes to the development of the play by serving as the primary catalyst for Walter Younger's financial decision to invest Lena's insurance money into a liquor business,...
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A Raisin in the Sun
The young female character Beneatha in the Raisin In the Sun play wants to become a doctor as the doctoral profession is seen as the highest intellectual and social attainment in the United States...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Ruth is very concerned about her relationship with Walter at the beginning of the play. She says to Mama that they had lost something and she doesn't know what to do about it. From his perspective,...
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A Raisin in the Sun
In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha dates the wealthy, well-educated man George Murchison; he is set up as a foil for Joseph Asagai, who also attracts her attention. In his...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Walter's made the fateful decision to sell Lena's house to Mr. Lindner from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. Walter knows that Lindner only wants to buy the house so he can keep the...
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A Raisin in the Sun
Karl Lindner comes to the Younger apartment to convince them to sell the house they've purchased in Clybourne Park. The Younger family receives money from their father's death. Their mother uses...
