Dreams in "A Raisin in the Sun"

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The paper examines the dreams of every character in Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun" and shows they all have their own individual hopes and dreams. The paper illustrates how dreams give the characters reason to live and reason to hope. The paper notes that not all the characters' dreams come true by the end of the play, but the fact than any do is a reason for hope for the future.

From the Paper:

""A Raisin in the Sun" tells the story of the Younger family, including Walter, Mama, Ruth, Beneatha, and Travis. This black family all live a hard life due to poverty and lack of opportunities for blacks at the time (the 1950s in Chicago). Mama receives $10,000 in insurance money for her husband's death, and with that money, she hopes to buy a real home in the suburbs, so her family can leave the tenement apartment they have lived in for years. However, the other characters all have their own dreams, and they do not always coincide with Mama's plans. Walter wants to invest the money in a liquor store, Beneatha wants it for tuition for medical school, and Ruth dreams that she and Walter can grow to love each other again like they once did."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Modern Library, 1995.
• Hughes, Langston. "Montage of a Dream Deferred." University of Texas at Austin. 2000. 4 Feb. 2008.<http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~daniel/anderson/amlit/raisin/samantha/raisin.html>

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