Raisin in the Sun, A

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Summary: Amazing
Review: The play, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry was awonderful piece of writing. I'm a fourteen year old and I thinkthat the book is good for most ages but you need to be at least 12 to fully understand it. I read this book while reading To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. It was interesting to read those books at the same time to see the points of view of racism of both sides. I noticed something very similar in both books. The Black people are always very welcoming and polite to the white people. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Robinson was always willing to help Mayella Ewell with chores. In A Raisin in the Sun, when the man came from the welcoming committee, they were very polite to him and invited him into their home. Little did they know that they would be rejected even though they were very courteous. That happened in both books. In A Raisin in the Sun, it seemed like their race was holding them back from accomplishing their dreams. When Mama bought the house for her family, they were all brutally rejected by the community. This upset the family very much. Walter says, "Maybe---maybe I'll just get down on my black knees,Captain Mistuh, Bossman. A-hee-hee-hee! Yasssuh! Great White Father, just gi' ussen de money, fo' God's sake, and we's ain't gwine come out deh and dirty up yo' white folks neighborhood..." When he says this it is a very dramatic part of the play. It shows how white people are controlling so much that goes on. They can't live in a house they want to live in. It seems like the white people are perceived as some kind of royalty in the book. Like queens and kings, they are not anything special but were just born into the "right" family. Unlike royalty, it's not the name they inherit but the color of their skin. I think this book was a great book to read. It showed me that in America you didn't always have a fair chance and social mobility used to be a lost cause for African-Americans. All of the people who lived in that crummy apartment had a dream but because of their skin color, their dreams were shattered. Either they wouldn't be taken seriously, or not welcomed, or given no choice but to take a low paying job doing unskilled things. I thought it was a great book because it was so realistic. There was suspense and most of all it was a book that really made me think.

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Summary: A Great Book
Review: Recently, in my eighth grade English class, we read To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. During our study of the 1930's in Alabama we were assigned to read another book by an African American author. I chose A Raisin the Sun because my mom recommended it. Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun written in 1959 is an intriguing, must read play. This play shows the strength of an African-American family's values and ability to stick together. They face many hard things that shock the reader and the audience including an accidental pregnancy. They battle against harsh prejudice and a system that attempts to keep them from having good opportunities to improve their life. Hansberry does a good job of intertwining family hardships with the individuality of each character. She develops each character personally and carries on his or her traits through out the entire book. The attitude she takes towards the great struggles of a Chicago family, Walter, Ruth, Mama, Beneatha and Travis Younger is convincing because of her tone and description. She shows that life for an African American person at this time is difficult and full of obstacles more challenging than the ones that white people faced. Although A Raisin in the Sun takes place 29 years after To Kill a Mockingbird, African American people are still treated with no respect and are limited in their rights. Both stories constantly demolish African-American families' dreams. Hansberry illustrates through her tone that the family life is rough and the Youngers' are eager for a big change. This action in the plot causes excitement and suspense. As a reader I constantly want the Younger family to over come their challenges and do well in the future. In the same way, In To Kill A Mockingbird I was always hoping that Tom Robinson would be freed. Although there are similarities in the way black people are treated in both books, Lorraine Hansberry as a black author develops her black characters more thoroughly than Harper Lee. Lorraine Hansberry leaves her white characters to roles that are minor. I like this play because it is realistic and shows how strong a family bond is no matter what comes between them. She really showed how the Youngers' were struggling financially but still managed to succeeded all of the obstacles in their way.

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Summary: The Survival of one Family
Review: "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry
A Black family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living condition."A Raisin in the Sun" shows the strength of a Black family; the values and ability to stick together. The Younger family were struggling financially but they still managed to succeed of the obstacles in their way.This play symbolizes "Endurance, Hope and Survival," and that no matter what a family has they could stay together and bond in love.

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Summary: A Good Look At Racism
Review: All in all, this book was a lot better than I thought it would be. Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is an excellent story about the events of a black family in Chicago. It was originally a play, so the entire book is set in script form. I enjoyed this form because the book contained more talking and less description, thus allowing the book to move along a lot faster. The main event which occurs in the book is when the family of 5 (grandmother, mother, father, son, aunt) recieve a check worth $10,000 from their grandfather's life insurance. The author conveys to the reader how each character reacts to the money and what they want to do with it. Hansberry also describes the world that the family lives in. Their world is racist, hard to succed in and full of hate. The world, along with Hansberry's excellent writing, is comparible to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. While I was reading A Raisin in the Sun, my eighth grade class was also studying To Kill a Mockingbird. I found myself constantly comparing these two books. In A Raisin in the Sun, the point of view is that of a black person, Hansberry. Because of her ethnicity and of the time she wrote the book, her point of view is different from Lee's. Hansberry believes that black people do not have any hope in a white man's world. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the point of view is that of a white person, Lee. Lee wrote this book during the 50's, about when the civil rights movement was really starting to get strong. Lee was in support of the blacks, so she wrote a book which showed hope for them. If To Kill a Mockingbird were written by a black person, the point of view would be completely different and the message would be that of A Raisin in the Sun. Both of these books are extremely good and well written. A Raisin in the Sun is a great book about racism from a black person's point of view. I enjoyed this book a lot, and I recommend it to everybody.

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Summary: Nice for society to reflect...
Review: This play helps to remind all people where we came from and gives us more reason to appreciate where we are. Beautifully written, and heartfelt. I love the independence and strength of the female characters, especially Mama. I applaud Beneatha's need for more, and Ruth's strength to deal with her husband and any misfortune that is thrown her way. Truly a movable classic. I loved it!

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Summary: Very moving.
Review: "A Raisin in the Sun" reads more like a novel than a play. With a multitude of dialogue, and lenient stage direction, you'll finish reading this play in no time at all. The characters are strong, liable, and intriguing. I'm not sure I'd want to see it performed, but it is poignant to read. I recommend.

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Summary: The Survival of one Family
Review: "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry
A Black family is united in love and pride as they struggle to overcome poverty and harsh living condition."A Raisin in the Sun" shows the strength of a Black family; the values and ability to stick together. The Younger family were struggling financially but they still managed to succeed of the obstacles in their way.This play symbolizes "Endurance, Hope and Survival," and that no matter what a family has they could stay together and bond in love.

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Summary: A Classic, Ripe and Delicious ¿Raisin¿
Review: "A Raisin In the Sun" was a recent part of the One book, One Chicago program, having not read the play since college, I had forgotten what a great work it is. That said it is impossible to write on the all the emotional levels that "Raisin" brings to the reader and/or audience member.
A struggling, African-American family strives to make it out of crowded Chicago Housing Project and to own their piece of American dream pie. Several of the characters in this extremely well written drama have their own dilemma to face: Ruth Younger, wife to Walter, must decide if she should have bring another baby to her already financially strapped family. Walter Younger, husband to Ruth, who has huge dreams and little means, of providing for his family. Beneatha Younger, sister to Walter, who is med student and dreams of being a doctor now questions her own life and culture. Finally, and most importantly, is Lena Younger (Mama) who is fighting to keep her family together after the death of her husband. The issue of assimilation of African heritage in American culture is still significant factor today and continues to be a struggle for many minorities in America as well. In my opinion, Raisin remains a fresh and relevant dramatic work for today and for many years to come.

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Summary: for the ones who like to read
Review: It was about an African-American family. The father died and left a hanesome amount of money. The oldest son was trusted with the money, but hr tries to do something that he thought was good for the family, and gives the money to his friend to buy a liquor store. The liquor store never came. So they struggle with no money.

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Summary: And Then I Realized¿
Review: Its incredible how this play, A Raisin in the Sun is capable of getting the reader's mind thinking of reality just as it has with mine. The way Lorraine Hansberry portrays the struggle those who live with colored skin vs. non-colored have gone through, maybe even right at this moment, establishes realization at the thought. The harsh racism being shown through this dramatic piece leaves a moral well said and awareness of cruel reality. In scene three, as Linder, the "Welcoming Committee" representative tries to explain his point, going out of his way to talk to the Younger family, he stammers out, "...It is a matter of people of Clybourne Park believing, rightly or wrong, as I say, that for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities" (Hansberry pg. 117-118). Although Linder lays the point down soft, the point he's tries to get out is so unreasonable and candid as someone out there might have relatively experienced. The fact of being a Negro family mustn't have anything to do with happiness of any American family. The color of a human being mustn't even be recognized as classifications in the first place. Going further along the lines, as Mama is being informed by Benetha, Walter, and Ruth of what the welcoming committee representative came for, Ruth comments, "Well - that's the way the crackers crumble" (Hansberry pg. 121). This derogatory statement, "cracker" towards Americans demonstrates that it's not only the Negros that receive the discrimination. A great deal of a hate bases somewhat equally on both sides resembling real-life situations. The veracity of hate in the world just needs to stop.