When your dreams are set aside, delayed or deferred you can experience a number of different emotions. You might feel frustration or angst, angry at the obstacles that might be holding you back from pursuing your dream and worried that you may never be able to reach your goals. You may feel stuck or defeated, if you think that your dream has no sustenance to keep it alive. You could feel defensive if those who you would expect to support you in your pursuit of happiness are instead turning against you and resisting the actions that you are taking in order to reach your goals. When being presented with a life changing amount of money, a family can be torn apart in conflict or brought together in a unified front towards happiness. I believe that Lorraine Hansbury used Langston Hughes’ “What Happens to a Dream Deferred?” as the epigraph of her play because the story is based on a family’s dreams for their future when faced with a substantial and life changing amount of money that is due to arrive in the mail. Each family member, as they have waited for the money to arrive, has dreamed about how it could be used to change their lives for the better. Each question posed in the poem by Hughes seems to reflect the dreams of a particular character in Hansbury’s play leading a reader to believe that Hansbury, quite possibly based her entire play upon Hughes’ poem. A three generation African American family of five living in a small, substandard apartment in the city of Chicago faced many obstacles in order to thrive. Blacks often felt that they could “be somebody” when they saw the growing shopping districts, parks and lake side beaches as well as theaters, ballrooms and fancy hotels (Mays). While great strides had been taken in ... ... middle of paper ... ...can help them to keep hope, and their dreams alive. Works Cited Hansberry, Lorraine. “A Raisin in the Sun.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Kelly J. Mays. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110. 2013. Print. Huges, Langston. “Harlem.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Kelly J. Mays. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110. 2013. Print. Mays, Kelly. “Life in the “Black Metropolis.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Kelly J. Mays. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110. 2013. Print. Weaver, Robert C. “The Negro as an American: The Yearning for Human Dignity.” The Norton Introduction to Literature. Kelly J. Mays. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110. 2013. Print.
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Now adays symbols define a lot of our everyday objects, for example, gender symbols or company logos. Symbolism is the use of symbols to show ideas. One book that uses symbolism is the drama based play written by Lorraine Hansberry named “Raisin in The Sun”. This book is about a poor black family in South Chicago during the 50’s called the Youngers. The Younger Family gets a $10,000 dollar insurance settlement. Unfortunately $6,500 is lost to an investment with a man named Willy Haris, over a liquor store, but $3,500 is put into a down payment purchasing a house in clybourne park. Throughout the story the author uses symbolism in 3 different ways, the windows represented opportunities, the light represented hope and the plants represented dreams.
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Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun ends on a positive note; however, it has some negative events as well. First, on the day of moving, the chairman of the Clybourne Park Improvement Association named Karl Lindner informs the Youngers' family that they are not welcomed in the white community, that “Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities”, and that they should sell the house to avoid troubles (Hansberry 990). After that, Walter Lee discovers that his partner in business Willy disappeared with all the money Mama entrusted him. The fact that the money that Walter was supposed to put on Beneatha’s savings account was also gone causes the crisis to flare up with even greater force. This negative event affects
A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, stars a lower class black family in Chicago attempting to make a better life for themselves. The play version of the story was later adapted into a movie 57 years after. Although both versions are very similar, their are key differences between the movie and play which change how the characters are portrayed and how the events unfold in the story.
When a man’s spirit is broken who is there to pick him up? In the influential play, a Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses the failures and frustrations of Walter Younger to highlight the importance of family in a man’s life.
When people hear the word “dream”, many tend to think of an immaculate desire for their future looming over their heads and pushing them through life. However, most tend not to consider the idea that dreams in nature can be far from immaculate or perfect; they can break relationships apart. It's the nature of aspirations to conform to both of these notions. Numerous authors have explored and worked these ideas into many pieces of literature as a central conflict. One notable 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 foster kindness and generosity; however, they can also be divisive in the way they promote
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In many ways, postwar time in America was a period of conformism with traditional gender roles, but it was also a time of change when dissatisfaction with the status quo was developing. Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun identifies various gender dynamics that reflects many of the biases that women in the American society continues to face in the 1950s.
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