In this report I'm going to talk about American playwright and painter: Lorraine Hansberry and her life along with her first success, which was A Raisin in the Sun. This masterpiece became a very well known play and often when people here Lorraine's name, they think of A Raisin in the Sun. Also in this report, I'm going to compare and contrast the film version and the later recreated version of this play.

A Raisin in the Sun was the first drama by a black woman to be produced on Broadway. The film was made in 1959. Hansberry's work celebrates individuals who stand up for their own and other's dignity.

Lorraine Hansberry was born in Chicago as the daughter of a prominent real-estate broker and the niece of a Harvard University professor of African history. Her parents were intellectuals and activists, and her father won an antisegregation case before the Illinois Supreme Court, upon which the events in A Raisin in the Sun was loosely based. She studied at the University of Wisconsin for two years, and in 1950 she moved to New York, where she started her career as a writer.

A Raisin in the Sun won the New York Drama Critics' Circle

On the other hand, one scene that I thought should have been in the movie that was in the play was when momma was taking down the pictures from the wall and the wallpaper was still new underneath them. This represented the time, history and memories that took place in the house. She touched the walls and said one last good bye to the old rickety apartment.

As in the film version, Beneatha was a major feminist and loved to get in touch with her African roots. Asagai, helped her do this. His character was much better in the newer play version than the film. He is much more believable as a true African. His accent in the play really brought out his foreign background.

A few parts that were not in the play that I thought were important is when the family goes to see the house. The excitement in everyone's faces is something that could not be shown in the play. We saw how excited they were when they were packing and getting ready, but it just wasn't the same. Also the scene where mamma goes into the bar made it more clear of how mamma finally gave in and ended up giving Walter Lee the money.

The original film version and the recreation of A Raisin In The Sun is very similar in many ways. The two characters that best depicted the original ones in the film were Ruth and Beneatha Younger.

Overall after viewing both forms of this playwright, I think that I like the play version better. First of all it was in color, which really does make a big difference. I liked all of the actors in the play except for Walter Lee's character (played by Danny Glover). It was a good performance, but after seeing the original film I had something to compare it to. The symbolism that was picked up from the play version was much clearer and meaningful than in the film.

Mamma's character was very different in appearance in the two v

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