A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry portrays a struggling family, made up of individuals with very different and important dreams. This renowned play shows the role of visions in life. Both the numerous dreams within the Younger household and each family members’ desire for their own respective goal prevented most of the primary characters from living out their dreams. This left multiple hopes still out there, unachieved, and providing the major theme of the play. The title, A Raisin in the
“ I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see Why Democracy means Everyone but me “(Hughes). Langston Hughes used his writings to express his opinion of races that seemed to be elusive with the United States other than having equality. The time when Langston Hughes was born people were fighting for equality all throughout the United States. Segregation laws and laws against equality were affecting him and the people that were around him. The only way Hughes could express himself and make people understand
Lorraine Hansberry took the title of A Raisin in the Sun from a line in Langston Hughes’s famous 1951 poem “Harlem: A Dream Deferred.” Hansberry wrote that she always felt the inclination to record her experiences. At times, her writing—including A Raisin in the Sun—is recognizably autobiographical. A Raisin in the Sun was a revolutionary work for its time. Hansberry creates in the Younger family one of the first honest depictions of a black family on an American stage, in an age when predominantly
“What happens to a dream deferred?”() This is the keystone question to Langston Hughes’s poem, “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)”. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, this very question is answered. It is not answered by accident though, these two works were paired on purpose. The former poem is actually the epigraph to the latter play. The story that unfold in A Raisin in the Sun takes place in the Chicago Ghetto. An African American family consisting of Mama (the grandmother), Walter
Known as “the bard of Harlem,” Langston Hughes was a prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance, an era of increased black cultural activity devoted to the formulation and sustenance of ideas. A man of both black and white descent, Hughes wrote poems concerning race, acceptance, and the voice of the oppressed. In the first line of his poem “Dream Deferred (Harlem),” Hughes asks, “What happens to a dream deferred?” and the rest of the poem attempts to answer this question (Hughes, line 1). The