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"A Raisin in the Sun" tells how the Younger family lives in a cramped apartment. Having the play set in one scene certainly helps with budget issues, but it becomes distracting after a while. I understand that people used to talk like this.some still do, but I found the dialogue awkward--difficult to follow.
We are introduced to Mama, who runs her family with a tight, but not overbearing, handle. It loses touch in Act II Scene 3 by adding a conflict.then develops a silly scene of how it will be resolved--then takes yet a different direction.So I am left wondering what the title means.and how realistic this really is because we see little more than a family interacting amongst itself. They are waiting for a check that could make all the difference in the world.
And if it was not for some exposition, one might think that the events of the play take place within a day."A Raisin in the Sun" starts as a story about the Younger family and its hardships. Her son Walter wants to go into business with some friends--he is married to Ruth, and they have a ten-year-old son (Travis). Mama's daughter Beneatha aspires to be a doctor.Patience is required while reading this play.
The other characters are almost like a joke. It is almost like only this room exists.as if in an episode of "The Twilight Zone."Parental Guidance Alert: Equivalent to a PG-13 for thematic elements and some derogatory language.
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Walter Lee wants to buy a liquor store, Mama wants to have a house with a garden, Beneatha wants to become a doctor and Ruth just wants everyone to be happy and content. Lorraine Hansberry's dramatic play, A Raisin in the Sun, is about the life of an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the years following the Second World War. The family is struggling to support itself. Everyone in the family has a dream for a better life. It is particularly relevant now, given the recent election of an African-American (not co-incidentally from Chicago) as president of the United States. Walter Lee works as a chauffer, and Ruth and even Mama work to bring in enough money.
It has been highly acclaimed ever since. Lena Younger (Mama) is the head of the family that includes her married son Walter Lee, his wife, Ruth, their young son, Travis and Walter's younger sister, Beneatha, who is a college student. The check arrives and the drama plays out against a backdrop of racial prejudice.This play was the first drama featuring an African-American theme to play on Broadway. They leave in a run-down apartment and even have to share the bathroom with other tenants. Lena's husband has died and she is about to get an insurance check for $10,000, a lot of money for those times. It shows basically decent people struggling against life's difficulties.
For that reason I give it five stars.
I loved this book. I saw the movie, but the book goes into much more detail. It's amazing how you don't recognize the littlest things but they make such a big difference.
The family includes Walter and Ruth Younger, his widowed mother Lena, son Travis, and sister Beneatha. This drama presents potent trends like resistance to integration, pan-Africanism, and militancy, but never becomes soapy or preachy. Lorraine Hansberry's famous play offers raw and realistic drama. That latter dream becomes reality via the life insurance from Lena's late husband. Still, her raw, realistic drama provides a powerful testament. Walter is a hard-working chauffeur who dreams of buying a liqour store before he loses his money to a con artist. We see the family separate with the expected insurance settlement, only to reunite when faced with rejection.
Sadly, several once-stable neighborhoods became crime-ridden slums, and cancer took Ms. The story examines conflicts and dreams within an African American family from Chicago's South Side in the 1950's, plus the effects of racism. This play was first performed in 1959, as Chicago's South Side was fast turning from white to black - integration being defined by neighborhood activist Saul Alinsky as that brief period of time between when the first black family moves in and the last white family leaves. Beneatha is an ambitious college student newly attracted to the back-to-Africa philosophy of her Nigerian friend, while Lena and Ruth dream of escaping their slum and buying a house in a better area. Lena purchases a house in a better area, at which point the all-white neighborhood tries to pay off the Youngers to keep them from moving in. Hansberry (1930-1965) at just 34.
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