Raisin in the Sun, A

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Summary: Raisin in the Sun
Review: I enjoyed this book. It was substantial material and it was fulfilling to the soul. I think it was very well written and is something I would definetly read agian. I saw the movie and it was very good too. I would give this book 5 stars all the way.

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Summary: A Lesson for the Human Family
Review: In her play, Lorraine Hansberry indirectly poses many tough-to-formulate-an-answer questions: What hapens to a dream when it suspends in time? Does its power grow and ultimately force him to act to make it happen sometime in the future-if not in his lifetime then in the future members of his kin? On the other hand, does it eat away at him, crystallizing and internally segmenting his own derived purpose and meaning of life until it is indiscernible from its original state of grandeur and grace? And perhaps more importantly than the aforesaid: Are these questions and the experiences of her Youngers only confined to them--people of "their" color, "their" ethnicity, "their" people?

The reader will find her work truly enriching and thought provoking. She doesn't impose censures or "beat around the bush." Her characters emote a sense of drive, passion, and hope that are truly at the VERY least reflections of many of our own lives.

This story about dreams and what happens to them is certainly one worth reading about.

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Summary: Powerful
Review: I recently read this play. Although I haven't seen it performed yet, I must say that it is certainly an excellent play that, given the appropriate actors, has the power to move the audience. At heart this play deals with dreams and racism. Some of the scenes, especially the last 5 - 10 pages will really move the readers/viewers through the skillful dialouge written by Ms. Hansberry.

Overall, this is a powerful, enjoyable, moving play I'd recommend for anyone mature enough to appreciate it.

As an interesting aside, in case you didn't know, the title "A Raisin in the Sun" comes from a Langston Hughes poem called "Dream Deferred."

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Summary: My Book Review...
Review: The book I am reading is A Raisin in the Sun and in this book there are different characters and the main character in my book is this girl named Ruth. This book is about civil rights. The reason people that are younger than me should not read this book because of the grammer like (''A'int nobody better than me'')and they might use it if their parents do not want them to.

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Summary: My Book Review - L.S.C
Review: The book I am reading is A Raisin in the Sun and in this book there are different characters and the main character in my book is this girl named Ruth.This book is about a black family in Chicago that is in a play about civil rights. The reason people that are younger than me should not read this book because of the grammer ("like aint nobody better than me.")and they might use it if their parents do not want them to.

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Summary: A truly moving play
Review: "A Raisin in the Sun," the play by Lorraine Hansberry, was produced in New York City in 1959. Hansberry creates the story of the Youngers, a struggling African-American family whose members deal with poverty, racism, and painful conflict among themselves as they reach for a better life. The Youngers are, in my opinion, one of the most unforgettable families in United States literature. Hansberry balances grim drama, comic moments, and redemptive love as the play unfolds.

Although a few of the characters may seem a bit stereotypical, the play strikes me as surprisingly fresh after all these decades. It is also fascinating to hear the voices of three generations of a single family in this play. Ultimately, "Raisin" is a celebration of struggle, pride, and hope, in addition to being a historically important indictment of mid-20th century racism. This is essential reading for anybody with a serious interest in United States drama or African-American literature.

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Summary: Slow, dull
Review: I read this book for my English class. It's not one that I would have read on my own though. I found it rather dull and slow most of the time. Maybe I just couldn't "get into it." Or maybe I just expected too much, though I don't know what exactly I expected. Maybe that was the problem. But hey, give it a shot! Many other people in my class enjoyed it a great deal.

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Summary: An emotionally stirring play
Review: While reading this play, each character is filled with so much human intensity that you hope all will succeed. Such is the essence of this play. It flows very well, and the descriptions place a stage in your hands. I recommend this to anyone who seeks a spiritually inspiring piece.

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Summary: Hansberry's Clever Use of Symbolism
Review: By fruitfully symbolizing the objects in the Younger's living room and Mama's plant, Hansberry effectively exposes an African-American family's plight to triumph over racial prejudice and reach its ultimate dream: to own a house with a garden. The play begins by describing the setting of the tattered furniture and diminutive window, both symbolizing the Younger family and their sticky situation. The furniture's arrangement displays a since of "taste and pride", which the Younger family embodies. Although the furniture and the Younger family reveal pride, both "are tired". The description of the furniture clearly depicts the Younger family's ray of pride, and their exhaustion of "accommodating the living of too many people for too many years". Walter Younger chauffeurs a rich white man, resenting the fact that he, like the furniture, lived too long accommodating people when he could be fulfilling his own dream to own a business. Also, the soul window in the Younger's family represents their entrapment. The lack of natural light contributes to the Younger's feeling of despair. The thin beam of light that "fights its way" through the window illustrates a gleam of hope for the Younger's dream. Premonitions of hope, seen through the trickle of light from the window, prophesizes the possibility of the Youngers ability to achieve their goal. Mama's scrawny plant also represents the Younger family. Mama exclaims that if the "little old plant" never sees sunlight, it will not see spring again. Like the plant, the Youngers need light or hope to live. Both the plant and the Youngers experience darkness when living in the tight apartment. When the plant begins to fall apart, the Youngers undergo tribulation. The plant that "ain't never had no sunshine or nothing" applies also to the Younger family not having any hope or anything at all. As Mama fixes the plant so it will not get hurt along the way to the new house, Mama states that it expresses her. Mama, the matriarch of the family, strives to protect the family, which the plant symbolizes. The plant expresses her because it shows the family's fortitude to stay alive, even though faced with problems such as lack of sunlight. At the very end of the play, Mama does not fail to forget the plant, which shows the importance of the family, unified by overcoming obstacles of racial oppression. Now the plant can live in a garden filled with sunlight and the Youngers can live their dream.

Hansberry represents the Youngers through the setting and Mama's plant and shows how these entities correlate with the Younger's achievement of surpassing racial friction and obtaining the American dream.

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Summary: THE SON HASTE DECISION JEOPRDISE THE FAMILY DREAM
Review: "Raising in the Sun" convey about a black family who lived in ghetto for many years. In this family the head of the house is the mother because her husband was dead. In this family everyone has a dream that they want to accomplish. And they all have different dreams.

The mother dream was to have a happy family and a big house. She wishes to have big house to make since a family of eight living in one bedroom. So when she see that, she always want to do something about it, but she didn't have money to buy a house so they can all have their own bedroom. One of her son's dreams is to buy a liquor store. But his problem was that he doesn't have any money in his account because he drinks too much when he got money. He thinks that they can live a better life if he can open one. His mother never approved of that idea because of her religion.

Beth is a student who wants to go to medical school. Her dream is to become a doctor. She thinks that there is nothing that she can do. She always tries something and fail, but she never give up. She always does different things to see if she can do it or not. One day she told to her brother about her dream, and he didn't approved it, because one she was only little girl, second, they didn't have enough money to send her to school. When he told her about what he thought of her dream, she didn't listen to his remarks because she was certain that one day she will be somebody.

One of the dreamers wants to have happy family. That all she wanted. It's always something that they find to argue. When she sees that, she feels very disappointed because there wasn't a day that goes by with out the family argue over nothing. They always fight.

Those are the dreams that they have. But the sad thing was that, the mother was the only one, who accomplished her dream, because the mother bought the house. She got the money from her husband insurance money. When the mother got the money the first thing that she did was buy a house in predominately white neighborhood. There wasn't any black person who lived in that area. Even if they did, the white people were bombing them. The mother wasn't afraid of any of those things because the only thing that she wanted to do was to buy the house and make the family happy. She didn't care about all racially motivated attack the family might have to face in the new neighbor.

After the mother bought the house, there was extra money in her hand. So she decided to give to her son so he can put it in the bank and take it out when Beth accepted by one of the medical school for her tuition. He agreed to follow his mother's instruction when he took the money. But instead of putting the money in the bank, he chooses to talk to some people that are planning to sale their liquor store. He talked to them and gave the money to one of his friends. This guy took the money and disappear some where. Nobody could find him. When son come home and told his mother and his family about what had happened, they were shocked. They couldn't believe that he would do such silly thing. He didn't only lost the money but also destroyed the family's dream. So because the son lost the money Beth couldn't go to medical school and he couldn't buy the liquor store.

The family was very disappointed in him. There was nothing they could do without any money. Finally the mother say that she no longer wants to have the house because there wasn't nothing they can buy for their new house. But the whole family told her that it's better at least to keep the house. After they suffer for a long time, they were being able to have a house with big garden.

The book relates to the most of the African-American family living situation even today. We can only learn that when money (luck) comes to us somehow, we have to be careful before we jeopardize our life and our loved ones. We certain have to carefully evaluate the possibilities before we decided to invest our money. We cannot trust people in money. It is such evil thing that has been turn good people in such vicious and merciless. We should always be careful with our money.