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    wouldn’t affect as many. The historical context of both A Raisin in the Sun and American Born Chinese revolve around not being accepted because of race, appearance, occupation, stereotypes, and so much more. Racism and stereotypes can cause people to completely change to be a new person because they don’t accept themselves in their own body. Self-acceptance is affected by historical context and in American Born Chinese and A Raisin in the Sun, many characters

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    In many stories, characters tend to have many conflicts. That is the case when it comes to A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In this story, there are two characters named Ruth and Walter Younger. They are a married couple whose relationship is getting worse and worse each day. Whenever they get into an argument, it always uncertain what will happen after that. Ruth is the wife of Walter Younger, she lives with Mama, Beneatha and her son Travis. She is also expecting a new baby; however

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    In the play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is about a poor African American family named the Younger, they live in a poor one bedroom apartment and they also shared one bathroom with their neighborhood in the Southside of Chicago. In the play A Raisin in the Sun the Younger family were trying so hard to get out of poverty. The three characters that are in the play are Walter Lee Younger Junior, Lena Younger ( “ Mama”), and Ruth Younger this are three characters I'm going to talk about

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    Distinction in David Cooper’s and Yomna Saber’s Critiques of “A Raisin in the Sun” Yomna Saber’s review “Lorraine Hansberry: Defining the Line Between Integration and Assimilation” on Hansberry’s screenplay “A Raisin in the Sun” depicts the struggles of segregation and racism an African American family is thrown into when they receive a large sum of money from an insurance claim. Whereas David Cooper’s review “Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun” on the same screenplay mainly focuses on the tensions caused

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    parts of their artwork up to the reader's imagination and let them interpret their own meanings and endings behind certain choices made in their piece. That is exactly what Lorraine Hansberry is doing by deciding to end A Raisin in the Sun on a cliffhanger. A Raisin in the Sun is ending with the Younger family beginning to move out of their old house and packing up to move to their newly bought house. The Youngers are moving to Clybourne Park, an all white neighborhood, and are trying to do better

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    Arianna Williams-Smart English 1B Professor Quinn Final Essay The epigraph to A Raisin in the Sun is Langston Hughes' poem called "A Dream Deferred" which was written as an example of life in harlem. The lines are a introduction to the white society's actions to take away equal opportunity from black citizens. Hughes main point is that there could be consequences when people's' frustrations build up or accumulate to the point where they have to either surrender their dreams or allow strenuous

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    A Raisin in the Sun centers around a black family and their daily lives in post war Chicago. In that time period they face discrimination and other hardships that affect the family inside out. In the story, race affects on many of the key parts of the plot which make up the storyline. The most significant word in A Raisin in the Sun is race/colored/black because of how it is symbolized in Walter and how it affects the social status of the Younger’s. A percentage of readers would say that the word

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    Raisin in the Sun pre-quiz Part 1: ANSWER EACH QUESTION IN COMPLETE SENTENCES ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER. 1. Why did Walter ask Ruth what was wrong with her? 2. Why didn’t Beneatha want to be a doctor anymore? 3. What self-battle is Mama having with herself? 4. Why didn’t Walter accept the money Lindner offered him? 5. What does Asagai ask Beneatha to do? Part 2: write “t” if the statement is true, and “f’’ if the statement is false. 6. The Younger’s moved. 7. Ruth didn’t put down money

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    In A Raisin In the Sun Lorraine Hansberry uses everyday objects-a plant, money, and a home to symbolize a family's struggle to deal with racism and oppression in their everyday lives, as well as to exemplify their dreams. She begins with a vivid description of the family's weary, small, and dark apartment in Chicago's ghetto Southside during the 1950s. The Youngers are an indigent African-American family who has few choices in their white society. Each individual of the Younger family has a separate

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    The character I want to focus on is Walter. Now i'm going to tell you why I chose Walter. In the play A Raisin in the Sun Walter uses Familial capital , Navigational capital , Social capital to better his life. In the play A Raisin in the Sun Walter uses Familial capital because he thought about his family and didn’t take on lindner's deal about him paying them not to move into their new house but Walter stuck with it and still chose to move. He called lindner down to tell him that he didn’t want

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