Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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On today's topic, I'll be talking about money and morality, specifically on one of the characters in the award winning play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun is a play centered around an African American family who receive a large sum of money due to a sad circumstance. Because of this the family can't decide on what to do with the money. Although there is a character in particular that has a dream that can only be accomplished with that amount of money, this character is Walter. In the play we get a sense of Walter's morality, his concern about money, and his ambitions.

Walter proves to be an unpleasant character more so in the first act, seeming to only be thinking about himself. Keeping that in mind, he is disgusted with the life he is living while seeing others thrive on success. Later on in the play Walter goes on to say this “we all tied up in a race of people that don’t know how to do nothing but moan, pray and have babies! (Lorraine Hansberry 2.1)”. He lays off his frustration on his own race, saying they are the ones to blame on how things are today between people. Although Walter has had his negatives he has also shown his brighter side. There is a moment …show more content…
He is a man of big dreams, thriving to become someone important. His desire is to start a liquor store and from there to support not only himself, but also to support his family in the best way possible. Although moral support from his own family is not given. Eager to achieve his goal Walter speaks his mind out with mama, “I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy… Mama look at me. (Lorraine Hansberry 1.2)”. Walters desires become a problem since for him it seems like he has no support from the family. All he asks is for a chance to prove himself that investing on that liquor store could prove of great help to them, he wants to pan out his dreams to become successful and to stop living their poor

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Book Notes: “A Raisin in the Sun” “A Raisin in the Sun” was written by Lorraine Hansberry. Lorraine was born on May 19, 1930 into a family with four children, her being the youngest. The Hansberry’s had always struggled with discrimination. In 1938, the family moved to a white neighborhood, where they were violently attacked by their neighbors. The Hansberry’s refused to move out of their house until a court ordered them to do so. Their case made it to the Supreme Court as Hansberry vs. Lee. The…

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throughout the play A Raisin in The Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. Symbolism is the use of an thing, character or situation to represent an idea or quality. One item used as a symbol in the play is Mama's plant. Another object used as a symbol in the play is Beneatha's hair. Hansberry uses symbolism throughout the play to impart the message through the themes of the value of having a dream and the importance of fighting discrimination. One symbol in A Raisin in the Sun is Mama's plant. She…

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for a stage performance. This final project highlights the author, Lorraine Hansberry, the creator of A Raisin in the Sun. She writes a family drama that places the audience inside the home of the Younger’s an African-American family living on the south side of Chicago in the…

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moreso of how far does it consume there being and there way of life. This takes center space in the amazingly play of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun. Hansberry was the first black female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play A Raisin In The Sun highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court…

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A Raisin in the Sun is one of the best works of Lorraine Hansberry. Hansberry talks about the vital issues such as poverty, gender, and racial discrimination through a black family, the Youngers. Hansberry’s play focuses primarily on the dreams of the main characters Mama, Walter, Ruth and Beneatha. The title 'A Raisin in the Sun' has been taken from the poem "Montage of a Dream Deferred" written by Langston Hughes in which he talks about the consequences when dreams are put off for later. The…

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There are may lessons and ideas that one can learn from life, and several of those can also be found in books. Lorraine Hansberry portrays a variety of themes throughout her play A Raisin in the Sun. She uses several characters and relationships portray these themes. One such relationship is the extreme change of heart between Walter and Ruth. These two have been married for around 10 years by the time the play opens and their relationship is beginning to lose its youthful infatuation. The reader…

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Walter Lee Younger is a major character in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in The Sun. People learn from his actions and try to prevent themselves from making the same mistake. He kept on trying his hardest to get a portion of the insurance money mama received, and tried to invest it on a liquor store. Walter’s lack of an education and common sense causes him to make a serious mistake, which not only affects him, but his family as well. However, Walter was still portrayed as a round character, because…

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Discrimination In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

“Think you can exploit us from what our dad worked his whole life for us to have!” In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin In the Sun a reader will learn racial discrimination can be overcome with a family working together. Mama sees her whole family falling apart and wanting each other dead cause her to buy a house with the insurance money from her husband's death. There are two important conflicts in the story that end up turning into amazing thing. Walter and Ruth hated each other at the start…

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