raisin in the sun
In Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, four major characters struggle to hang onto their quest for the American Dream. Cramped in an apartment in the slums of Southside Chicago, the Younger family have discovered that the idea that hard work will purchase a house, a safe neighborhood, and a future for their children, is not working. Despite their perseverance as domestics or as a chauffeur, their chance for growth seems as dismal as the only natural light which "fights its way through" a single window in the kitchen(Hansberry 24). The author uses Langston Hughes' poem "A Dream Deferred" as a preface for her play. It captures the effect of each character's battle wit the dreams held up too long. In the first line of Langston Hughes' poem, it asks the question, "What happens to a dream deferred?
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Approximate Word count = 563
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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