Raisin in the Sun, A

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Summary: A Raisin in the Sun
Review: This book is a very eye opening book. It teaches you about poverty of a black family in a poor neighborhood in the southside of chicago. This book has many conflicts and hardships that the Younger family faced in the middle 1900's. You should read this book if you are willing to endure some of the hardships that the members of the Younger family have.

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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: this is one of the classics of drama. you should read it.

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Summary: Raisin in the sun-a good down to earth play
Review: For my ninth grade summer reading I was assigned to read A Raisin In The Sun. I found it funny, amusing,and very suprisingly realistic. Of all the characters, I found that Beneatha amused me the most with her willingness to try new things and make the best out of hard situations. She does not have as many lines as Mama, Ruth, or Walter, but you can tell that the storyline of the play revolves around her. This book is touching, but certainly never borring. If you have'nt read it or you want to read a play for the first time then this is a good book for you!

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Summary: my review on the book A Raisin in the Sun
Review: this book is a breathtaking drama that really touches your heart. it shows love between a family through tough times and how they worked together. i think that this is a really good book and that everyone should read it sometime in their lives.

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Summary: This book sucks
Review: This is one of the worst books I have ever read. It is boring, nothing interesting hapens in it. If you have to chose a book don't buy it. And if you have to read it buy the cliff's notes it wil make it less painful to read. If there had been an option to give this book zero stars I would have chozen it.

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Summary: DEFINITION OF MEDIOCRACY
Review: THIS WASNT A BAD BOOK AT ALL BUT IT'S DEFINTLY OVER RATED. Yeah it talks about racism and life in the 1950's, but it's not very entertaining as a book. I definitly do not agree it should be compared to "To Kill a Mockingbird" as one reviewer did. To Kill a Mockingbird did discuss racial issues but it was also very entertaining as a novel. A raisin in the sun is worth reading if you have nothing else to read, it is a quick read. However I think the whole story can be summed up by Langston Hugh's poem a DReam Deferred.

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Summary: A Rasin In The Sun
Review: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE, about a white family having to deal with the problems of racism. A RAISIN IN THE SUN BY LORRAINE HASSNBERRY, about a black family having to deal with the problems of racism. Both books were read in my eighth grade English class and both books are related by one main idea, racism. Both books were based after World War 2, TKM in the South and ARITS in the North where racism was very alive and controlled by the white man. In ARITS the family wanted to move so they could have a comfortable life, but when they bought a house it turned out by being in an all white neighborhood. There is some discussion about not moving. In TKM if Tom Robinson and his family wanted to move into a white neighborhood there would be more than discussion there would be a decision that there would be no chance of them getting out of his black neighborhood because he would be hanged and tortured. In To Kill A Mockingbird there is a very powerful father, Atticus, who is like Mama in A Raisin In The Sun both have connections with powerless men who finally rise to the top, by becoming strong and believing in themselves. Walter Younger (ARITS) is a very stubborn black man trying to make a comfortable living for his family when Karl Linder, a representative from the white community, enters the families life and tells them that it is not a smart idea to move Walter gets very emotional and upset but finally stand up for his family. Tom Robinson has been accused of Rape of a white woman, at the time racism was very alive, even though there was not enough evidence to prove that he was guilty, and since there was an all white jury, Tom didn't stand a chance of being proven innocent. Harper Lee is a white woman writing about a white family having to struggle in a world dominated by the WHITE MAN. It seems as though Ms. Lee has hope for blacks, she shows that in the book by having Tom Robinson's trial. She knows that blacks have a chance and that they should never try to give up. Loraine Hasenberry is a black woman writing about a struggling black family who has given up hope in a world of white supremacists. In the book her characters reflected upon her thoughts by giving up hope of ever becoming anything. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who shows an interest in plays about segregation in the 1900's. I had a great time reading it and I hope you do too!

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Summary: A Raisin in the Sun
Review: A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, is a book about the life of an African-American family, who was struggling to survive in a world dominated by whites. I am an eigth grade student who was assigned to choose a book to read from a selection of literature about African-American life in the mid 1900's. While we were reading our independent book, in class we were also reading and studying To Kill a Mockingibrd, by Harper Lee. Th pupose of reading two of the same types of boos at the same time was to compare points of view within each book. In A Raisin in the Sun, the point of view is tols by the author through the four main characters: Ruth, Walter, Mama and Beneatha. All of these characters are members of an African-American family. Where as in To Kill a Mockingbird, the point of view is told by the author through Scout, a six year old white girl. The amount of racism changes from book to book because even though Scout is not racist by any means (she was raised that way), she is young and does not fully understand all of the components of racism, and as compared to the characters in A Raisin in the Sun, she does not start to convey the feelings of this terrible thing, because the characters in A Raisin in the Sun a re victims of racism, therefore they can portray it in a much stronger sense. Overall I felty that this book told a very interesting story about people living in a segregated world. It was fun being able to read it in a play format as well because I was able to vividly imagine them in action in my mind. I definitely recommend this book to all people who are interested in points of views and stories about segregation in the earlier part of this century.

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Summary: A Raisin in the Sun
Review: A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry ,is by far one of the best books have read yet. The setting is in the mid-1900's in the Southside of Chicago. The main focus of this book occurs around a poor black family in a poor black community, the Younger's. Hansberry does a great job of using dialect to make the scenes quite realistic and uses quite a bit of symbolism, irony, motifs, and situations that involve making decisions where you become stuck between a rock and a hard place. The book starts off with Walter Younger's obsession with his mother's insurance check so he can become a true entrepeneur and invest in his own liquor store. Since religion played a vital role in Mama's reaction to this sinful act it really damaged Walter's hopes and dreams. Later in the book Mama finally decides to give Walter the money and leaves him with the responsibility of taking care of the family, this is where the rising action begins. Then the climax hits when Walter finds out that the money he gave to his partner is gone. This leaves Walter and the rest of the family in a sudden feeling of disillusionment. Then as things cool down Walter and the rest of the family decide to go ahead and move into the all white neighborhood. The rest of the story is jam packed with racial, religious, economic, and even feministical motifs that aid in the release of all the true tensions in the novel, between characters, which Hansberry purposely relates to the reality of the way society really is. Her purpose for writing this book was to show the way society worked and to make it apparent how hard life was for a poor black family. Overall I really enjoyed this book. It had alot of realistic elements , enough to make the reader stay interested and more. The plot is dramatic and ends ironically. I gave this book 4 stars because it had all the elements of a good book it just did not have the ending I was expecting. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a easy reading book that contains alot of real life situations and the struggle of a poor black family just trying to "move on up", just like the Jefferson's just without all the funny jokes.

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Summary: This book is the bomb !
Review: This book deals with everyday life situations such as racisim and trying to get out of poverty. It's complex adversity taught me about the real world and how hard it can be. I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book just as well as I did.