Sunday, November 13, 2016

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is a drama to the highest degree a post WWII Afro-American family on the Southside of Chicago. The plays title is taken from the poem Dream Deferred, by Langston Hughes, where the poet contemplates on what happens to a fantasy deferred: What happens to a pipe dream deferred? Does it run dry up like a raisin in the sun?\nThe plays main(prenominal) theme is the revealing of the individual(prenominal) dreams of each region. Each character has their own random variable of how they compliments the future to be. The family is on the termination of receiving a $10,000 ante upment from the policy company after the passing(a) of the former head of the menage Walter Sr. The family consists of Walter Lee, his wife pathos and son Travis, mommy, Beneatha (Walters sister). They all brave out together in a cramped apartment with Travis quiescence on the couch. Each of them has a intent for the money notwithstanding not everything happens on daub as they would like to. mamma wants to debase a in the raw home to complete a dream she had with her husband. Walter Lee believes that they should buy a liquor investment company and that would put them out of poverty. ruth also shares a dream with florists chrysanthemum provided she rightfully just wants a divulge place for Travis to grow up in. Beneatha really just wants for Mama to spend the money on whatever her heart desires, but knows that Mamas desire is to help pay for Beneathas medical school. With everybody having their own version of a dream, soon they skip clashing over their competing dreams.\nMama has a plant in the house that sits by the windowpane which represents the dream for her family to stick together. The family is a very low in have it off family and she believes that this ordain fulfill the familys dream and it could be a major come up. Although mama had a enceinte supposition other family members had disparate plans with the mon ey. Walters mind is set that t opening up a liquor store would be a genius idea; Walter is labeled the dreamer of the family. Although his plan may be undimmed the...

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