Analysis Of The Play ' A Raisin Of The Sun ' And ' The Poem ' Harlem '
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The play "A Raisin In the Sun" and the poem "Harlem" both concentrate on the attainment of the forever promised "American Dreams" (higher education, prosperity, equality, freedom to come and go as you desire and to be whoever and whatever you want). These aspirations were and still are the hopes and goals society offers to all of us, unfortunately, many African-Americans rarely achieved and experienced them. Both writings depict the unfair treatment of African-Americans during the 1960's with each implying how, discrimination and segregation, made achieving these dreams virtually insurmountable for most of the black population. The main difference between the play and the poem are the endings. The poem ends with a reference to the total destruction "explosion" of dreams thereby, squelching any and all hope of their realization, whereas the play ends with a tone of optimism and anticipation for change. "Harlem" is primarily about the despair and the disillusionment of being promised something that will never come true in its fullest and truest form. This is analogous to "A Raisin in the Sun." For example, Walter has a dream of owning his own business. He imagines moving his family of five out of their two bedroom apartment in Harlem. Also, Lena (Mama) dreams about getting her family out of the small apartment and into a home. Mama receives an insurance settlement worth $10,000 which today would be worth roughly $100,000. She plans to utilize part of money to acquire…
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"Harlem" by Langston Hughes is a poem with a much deeper meaning than portrayed. The poem talks about what happens to dreams when they do not come true. Although, when the speaker addresses to a dream, he is referring to back in the slave days when black and whites were segregated. The blacks once had a dream that they would be treated equally with the whites. That they would go to the same school and not have to sit in the back of the bus. When Hughes wrote this poem it was a few years before the…
Analysis of A Raisin in the Sun Essay
two prominent dramatists, Amiri Baraka and Lorraine Hansberry, sought the perfect opportunity to create plays that brought forth, with earnestness and directness, the great trials faced daily by African-Americans throughout the United States. Through their two protagonist's interactions with a representation of the white race of that time, Walter Lee's handling Mr. Lindner in A Raisin In the Sun, and the oppression of Clay caused by Lula in The Dutchman, the very the nature of white and black relations…
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means altered or not happening the way you want it to. When you put the two words "dreams' and 'deferred" together it can mean that something gets in the way of plans you wanted to happen and dreams you had high hopes for. In the play as well as the movie A Raisin in the Sun, all four adults of the Younger family each have their own dreams. Through their own actions and the actions of others, their dreams become deferred. Lena, who is Walter Lee's mother works as a housekeeper in the beginning of…
Essay Analysis Of The Play ' A Raisin Of The Sun '
In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, involves a poor family where each member of the family has their own problem like for Lena, it was moving into a new house, for Ruth what to do with the baby that still hasn't be borned, and Walter to open a liquor shop. It is hard to define one as the protagonist since every character is really influential and contributed a great amount in it. In fact, you could say all of them are protagonists or none of them. There are many traits that separate…
The play "A Raisin in the Sun" has always intrigued my interest because of its theme: in order to achieve their dreams, people must accept themselves, the circumstances they're in, and their family who support them, rather than focusing on the money they don't have as a way to get what they want. Instead of already being middle-class, the Youngers want that American family lifestyle that is promised to all who live as American citizens. It is an ongoing subject of unfulfilled dreams that the characters…
In the play, "A Raisin in the Sun" is a story about an African-American family trying to make a living and pursue their dreams in America around the 1950's. Also, the characters in the story all deal with their situation in different ways. This then leads to the characters providing different meanings and perspectives on what life was actually like for them at the time and the decisions they had to make. Outside of the story the play itself had effects during the time it was performed. The history…
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