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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.
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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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