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Full Play Summary. A Raisin in the Sun portrays a few weeks in the life of the Youngers, a Black family living on the South Side of Chicago in the 1950s. When the play opens, the Youngers are about to receive an insurance check for $10,000. This money comes from the deceased Mr. Younger’s life insurance policy.
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Full Play Analysis. A Raisin in the Sun is centered around the persistent deferral of the Younger family’s dreams. The Youngers are a working-class Black family with various dreams of upward mobility. Walter wants to take control of his life, restore his sense of masculinity, make his family proud, and eventually take on a new role as head of ...
A Raisin in the Sun examines the effects of racial prejudice on the fulfillment of an African-American family’s dreams. The play centers on the Youngers, a working-class family that lives in Chicago’s South Side during the mid-twentieth century. Shortly before the play begins, the head of the Younger family, Big Walter, dies, leaving the ...
Introduction to A Raisin in The Sun. A Raisin in The Sun is a popular play by Lorraine Hansberry. It was performed for the first time in 1959. Hansberry has borrowed the title from a popular poem by Langston Hughes, “ Harlem.”. The play revolves around an African American family living in Chicago who wants to bring improvement in its status ...
Analysis. The concept of dreams is a focal point throughout A Raisin in the Sun, with Hansberry using the title to allude to “Harlem,” a 1951 Langston Hughes poem that poses the question: what ...
Key Facts about A Raisin in the Sun. Full Title: A Raisin in the Sun. When Written: 1950s. Where Written: New York City. When Published: The play premiered on Broadway on March 11, 1959. Random House published the play in 1959. Literary Period: Social Realism.
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Set in the aftermath of World War II, the Younger family is facing its own war against racism in the Chicago slums. America’s complicated history of racial tension between black Americans and white Americans is ingrained into the Youngers’ everyday lives. Single mother (and grandmother) Lena Younger, her daughter Beneatha, and her son ...
