Essays on A Raisin in The Sun

In the play A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry shows that the only dreams that are successful are dreams that aren’t selfish; Mama’s dream survives because it’s not just about one person it’s about her entire family. The play portrays an African American hard-working…

Plays always have important values. These values are critical throughout the play. Furthermore, these values can create conflicts between characters. Therefore, there are major values in A Raisin in the Sun. These crucial values in A Raisin in the Sun are family, God, and money….

The American dream is the opportunity for all Americans to seek and reach their dreams. However, Langston Hughes wrote a poem called “Harlem” which talks about dreams, and what happens to them when they don’t come true. In the poem, Hughes writes, “What happens to…

In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, we see the effects of chasing the American Dream, both positive and negative. Hansberry shows her views on the American Dream through the characters, and she portrays the daily struggles of a family in the 50s. She…

Introduction The most important decision about your goals is not what you are willing to do to achieve them, but what you are willing to give up¨, Dave Ramsey tells readers. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry was a play created to tell…

The Fire Next Time Fire Next Time is made out of two articles, ‘My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation’ and ‘Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind.’ These articles inspect issues of racial…

For several of Hansberry’s characters, money is a promise of salvation, a gift to be stored up and fought for whenever possible. But as the story unfolds the younger family must repeatedly weigh their wish for material wealth against their wish for freedom. Beneatha, Walter,…

A Raisin in the Sun Of the major characters in A Raisin in the Sun (Beneatha, Walter Lee, Mama, Ruth), choose one which you would consider to be a protagonist and which to be an antagonist and explain why. Given the variety of interactions exhibited…

A Raisin In The Sun is a book based around what each individual sees as the better life. Every human has a different idea of what they think is the better life. The book focuses on completing your dream no matter the struggle. Mama wants…

Lorraine Hansberry wrote the play A Raisin in the Sun in 1950 in New York; the play’s first performance was in 1959. The play touched on a very emotive topic at the time, that of racism. The play attracting a broad audience from both the…