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"Raisin in the Sun" and "The Piano Lesson", 2002.
An analysis of the theme of the black experience in Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 44.95
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This analyzes two plays as expressions of the black experience in America, while focusing on the characters and symbolism in these plays. The plays are Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" and August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson". The literary work by August Wilson reflects the painful past and anticipated future of the African American race whereas Hansberry's play shows how an African-American family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living conditions in the midst of the 20th century.
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'A Raisin in the Sun', 2006.
A review of Lorraine Hansberry's 'A Raisin in the Sun'.
992 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper reviews the play 'A Raisin in the Sun', by Lorraine Hansberry. According to the paper, 'A Raisin in the Sun' is about the dreams that people have. More specifically, it is about the dreams of people who do not have the opportunity to pursue those dreams. The paper reports how the main theme of the play is deciding what to do with a large sum of money that is won by one of the characters.
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"He then describes the life his son will have. This description is partly about material possessions like their house with a gardener and a black Chrysler. However, Walter also describes how his son will be able to go to any school that he wants to and that his son will be able to be anything that he wants to be. As Walter says, "Just tell me, what it is you want to be--and you'll be it" (Hansberry 94). This shows that Walter's dream is linked to his desire for his son to be proud of him and for his son to have opportunities in life. Mama's dream is not to change as much as the others. Instead, she just wants her family to live in a safe neighborhood and have a home they can be proud of. The interesting thing about all of these dreams is that they are all worthwhile. All three of the characters have valuable uses for the money and want to use it to better their own futures. "
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"A Raisin in the Sun", 2007.
A review of Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" .
2,111 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses how Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" is considered by critics to be one of the strongest portrayals of the African-American nuclear family. It looks at how the implicit theme of "A Raisin in the Sun" is the impact of the family upon the actions of individual units, especially in relation to African-American families. It also examines how the social premise and moral conflicts of the play focuses on the pursuit of the Younger family to better their current situation. It analyzes the family through several different topics, including the impact of family experiences upon individual action, the impact of social influences upon the entire family, the impact of social and political factors upon the family, and finally, the gender roles that come in conflict within the nuclear family model.
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"Common family experiences have a dramatic impact on the actions of each individual unit, and it unites the family in their pursuits. The Younger family is considered lower middle class; three generations occupy the nuclear model, with grandmother Lena at its head, Walter, Ruth and Beneatha as the second generation, and Travis as the youngest. The hardships endured by the family unit as a whole in their pursuit of survival binds them together. Lena and her husband worked tirelessly to raise their kids. Walter works extremely hard as a chauffeur in order to support his family, while Ruth has the full responsibility of handling the house and monitoring the family. It is the result of their persistent hardship that drives them to all yearn for change and greater social mobility (NPR, npg). "
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"The Piano Lesson", 2002.
A review of the play "The Piano Lesson" by the African-American playwright August Wilson.
990 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper examines the play "The Piano Lesson" by August Wilson set in 1936 which looks into the worldly affairs of a black family that struggles to maintain the family heritage. It analyzes how the piano ,which is central to the story, serves as a potential metaphor for the history of the past pertaining to the enslavement of those ancestors that were chained in slavery. It looks at how the play is based on the legacy of the piano and what the protagonists Boy Willie and Berniece decide to do with it.
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"From the title of this learned victory by August Wilson, it is evident that there comes a profound understanding of the sense of family values, morals and cohesiveness of the black Americans along with the title of the play. Every scholarly effort is geared towards conveying a message appended with an insightful moral and The Piano Lesson is no exception. The soul-searching lesson that we have learned all along is that past injustices and tormenting experiences leave a strong adverse impact on the lives of the people who suffer the blow of racial discrimination and other prejudices. "
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"A Raisin in the Sun", 2006.
This paper reviews and analyzes Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" while focusing on the symbolism of light and its significance on both the plot and the characters.
1,412 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper details the plot and main characters in Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" which focuses on an African-American family residing in Chicago. The writer analyzes the significance of light in Hansberry's work which makes its first appearance in the opening of the play when the sun shines in on the Younger's cramped apartment. The writer contends and explains the manner in which the light provides emotional nourishment to the protagonists as well as heartache and despair. This paper also looks at the symbolism of Mama's plant which although she knows will never fully grow and reach its ultimate potential she continues to care and nurture it, much in the same manner as she cares for her own family.
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"The plant does not simply symbolize Ruth and Walter's inability to fully grow and flourish as a couple and a mother and a father in the apartment. It also has more personal symbolism. It symbolizes the dream of Mama to own her own home, a place of her own rather than the rented territory of others, with a cramped and small bathroom for five (and perhaps six, given Ruth's impending pregnancy) other people, all dreaming and yearning to break free. The plant is a more specific and powerful symbol, too, because it is a green and living thing. It underlines Mama's desire to have a garden and a yard. Clearly, Mama could make many things grow. If she made a plant grow in a terrible apartment, with little help, just as she and her husband helped her children Beneatha and Walter flourish with little help from society, think of what Mama could do with her own yard, full of sunshine and space."
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The Use of Structure in "Raisin in the Sun", 2000.
Analysis to show how the focus is shifted throughout the Lorraine Hansberry's play, "Raisin in the Sun".
1,550 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 50.95
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This paper looks at the way "Raisin in the Sun" develops, so that the focus is shifted throughout the play. The three acts are explored as follows: The first act's function in the play is to introduce the character's internal and external conflicts and make the reader guess what kind of solvency will come from the new money, act two's purpose is to give the audience a false sense of security which ultimately leads to the climax of the play and in act three, all of the issues in act one resurface.
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"The first act of Hansberry?s play is used to introduce the problems that the family is facing while showing that there is an end to these problems in sight. The money problems that the Younger family faces are shown through various ways in the beginning of act one. The first act's function in the play is to introduce the character's internal and external conflicts and make the reader guess what kind of solvency will come from the new money. The very beginning of the play familiarizes the audience with the Younger family?s lack of resources. Several families share one bathroom on the floor of the apartments that they live on and Travis is made to sleep in the living room, because of the shortage of bedrooms in the apartment. By showing that the characters face these money problems, the audience is able to appreciate the situation that the family is in."
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Lorraine Hannsberry's "Raisin in the Sun", 1997.
This paper describes Lorraine Hannsberry's "Raisin in the Sun" and a poem ?Harlem? by Langston Hughes included in the book (and quoted in full in the paper).
945 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper discusses that both Hansberry's book "A Raisin in the Sun" and the included poem ?Harlem,? by Hughes are written by African-American writers. The author states that both focus on the question of what happens to ?a dream deferred.? The paper states that Hansberry, through the characters within her drama, answers this question in the same manner as does Hughes.
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"Hughes? poem, which asks if a deferred dream will ?...fester like a sore-- / and then run?? can easily be applied to Walter?s dream of having a better life, which festers inside him. In the first act of the Hansberry?s drama, Ruth points out to Walter that his thoughts are always focused on one thing: his dream. Her speech to her husband is an indication that his dream is festering and not going away."
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"A Raisin in the Sun", 2001.
A look at the timelessness of the play, "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry.
1,000 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at the play "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry, first staged in 1959, and Robert Nemiroff?s comments on whether the play is still timely three decades later. Nemiroff concludes that it is, and since the play deals with upward mobility against the forces of racism, this writer agrees that the play contains a timeless quality.
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"A Raisin in the Sun, the play written by the late Lorraine Hansberry, was first performed on Broadway in 1959. It was a remarkable play, the first one to present Black families without stereotype, and mapping out the multiple problems facing Black families of the day. Those issues included not only overt racism but the stereotypes held by the employers they worked for, clashes between older generations who remembered the overt racism experienced in the South, and younger generations who wanted to move into middle class life complete with home ownership and jobs that did not cast them in the role of servants. One young person in the family is in college and intends to attend medical school."
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"Raisin in the Sun", 2002.
Discusses the theme of the American Dream in "Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry.
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This paper compares the dreams of the characters of Walter and Mama in Lorraine Hansberry's play "Raisin in the Sun" and the conflict that emerges between these two dreams.
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"Raisin in the Sun", 2004.
An examination of the social impact of Lorraine Hansberry's "Raisin in the Sun".
3,321 words (approx. 13.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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This paper discusses how Hansberry's play, "Raisin in the Sun", was a catalyst for change regarding relationships between blacks and whites in the United States. It explains how it provided a backdrop for the examination of the problems and their changes and, in addition, aided in the racial integration of public schools. The paper examines the plot of the play, the background of the author, and the political situation of the country when the play was written.
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"Before one can begin to analyze and understand the ways in which the work of literature contributed to changes in America when it came to race relations one must first have an understanding of the story itself.
The story focused on the Younger family.
The beginning of the book immediately begins to set the stage for understanding the plight of many black families during this era in American history. The typical black families at this time had a difficult time getting to the top of the economic success ladder and were often stuck in situations that were financially difficult. In this piece of literature the Younger family is anxiously waiting for a check to arrive."
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"A Raisin in the Sun", 2004.
An analysis of the play, "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry.
1,401 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper discusses Lorraine Hansberry's play, "A Raisin in the Sun". The paper examines the central theme of the play as it relates to the American dream. It explains how this theme is significant to each character of the play and also contends that the characters represent the spectrum of personalities found in any American society.
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"We learn how people can become blinded by their dreams through the character of Walter. Part of Walter's problem is the fact that he feels desperate. He realizes that he is getting older and still has not really achieved anything. He tells his wife, "I'm thirty-five years old; I been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room . . . and all I got to give him is stories about how rich white people live" (Hansberry 2209). In dealing with this realization, Walter tries to find a quick way to make his dream of having lots of money come true. He becomes blinded by desire. This kind of blind dreaming is something that happens to a lot of people. Their desire becomes so strong that they cannot see that risks often outweigh possibilities. "
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?Raisin in the Sun?, 2005.
This paper examines the cultural context of Lorraine Hansberry's play "Raisin in the Sun".
1,360 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that, on the surface, the plot of the play "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry is merely about an African-American family's struggle to get out of the ghetto on Chicago's Southside; however, a deeper examination of the work demonstrates the author's utilization of numerous themes and complex characters, which require multiple levels of analysis: African-American identity, social status and racial challenges within the intricacies of universal human nature. The author points out that hints of Hansberry's childhood surface throughout the play and have clearly influenced her thoughts and beliefs: Father waged a legal battle for the right to purchase a home in a previously all-white neighborhood that reached the Supreme Court, "Hansberry vs. Lee", which they won, but the family was subjected to vicious physical attacks. The paper relates that the title of the play refers to the protagonist Mama's longing to escape the ghetto so that her children can be raised in the sunlight of a better neighborhood and thus better education.
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"Another way that Hansberry illustrated her world through her work was in her definition of universality. Indeed, prior to the publishing of the play, universality was monadic in its conception and application. It had been developed and applied to mean whiteness rather than including the diversity of modern-day society. Moreover, black art separated itself from the mainstream by isolating discussions of social problems from racial issues. However, Hansberry conversely sought to concurrently consider "social significance and racial consciousness." Her attention to details opened the door for white audiences into an understanding of black experiences that made those experiences understandable and relevant. The inclusion of the black experience within the framework of the human experience forced a redefinition that opened the term universality to include the minority voice. Author James Baldwin articulates this milestone, saying "never before in American theater history has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on stage.""
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?A Raisin in the Sun?, 2002.
A review of Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun".
749 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper examines Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" about Walter the resentful patriarch of the family who acts out certain attitudes affecting the black community in his time. It looks at how Hansberry clearly writes from her own experience, the family she writes about exists in a specific time period--the 1950s--and a specific milieu--the south side of Chicago. It shows how The Younger family is on the verge of escaping from the ghetto, with each family member having his or her own dream and how this dream begins with the desire to achieve the American dream. It discusses how by the end of the play the seamy reality of that dream has been exposed and the family has shifted to a celebration of its own value system rather than aspiring to emulate white society.
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"The kind of experience the Youngers have leads them to a spiritual and familial regeneration, and they transcend their ghetto not by moving to the suburbs but by understanding themselves and their place in black society. The prevailing racism has left the Youngers with a feeling of inferiority they try to overcome. The anger that such treatment creates is subdued in this family. The one vital element in the Younger family that sets them apart from much of the black experience today is the fact that they are, in the end, a family. The breakdown of the family in the ghetto is much discussed today. The Youngers have stayed together, something difficult even in the 1950s and something which shows them as atypical. Hansberry is not painting a false picture, and she is promoting the idea that family can help solve some of the problems faced in a racist society."
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'A Raisin in The Sun', 2005.
This paper provides an analysis of Lorraine Hansberry's drama 'A Raisin in The Sun'.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 31.95
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In this article, the writer examines Lorraine Hansberry's drama, "A Raisin in The Sun". The writer focuses on how racism and oppression impact one family's internal dynamic and their struggle to achieve dignity and respect.
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"Lorraine Hansberry's drama 'A Raisin in The Sun' revolves around the dilemma of Ruth and Walter Lee Younger. The Youngers exist in the racist culture of Chicago. Residing in a cramped apartment, the Youngers look forward to their move to a house part of their realization of the American Dream with anticipation. However, their new neighbors are unhappy with the prospect of a black family living in their neighborhood, so they conspire with the Clybourne Park Improvement Association to keep them out by ..."
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