A Raisin In The Sun Analytical Essay
A Raisin in the Sun uncovers the hardships within the black community and how to deal racial oppression of the white community. Through a character named Asagai, the play shows how to appreciate African Heritage. This play was a major breakthrough in the arts for blacks because for the first time there is a black family on stage. Through this play Hansberry touches on major issues, such as racism, discrimination, poverty and even abortion (at a time when abortion wasn't even legal). A Raisin in the Sun portrays difficult questions about a person's identity, such as Beneatha. Beneatha is a strong black woman who is obviously well educated and on her way to becoming a doctor. She believes herself to be a very independent woman, when indeed she
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The characters struggle with the circumstances that control their lives. Every member of the family has a different dream. Walter, the son, has a dream to be wealthy and wants to be able to give his family things. He dreams of opening up a liquor store with two of his friends. Walter seems to be the one with the most conflict in this family because he is a man but is not truly a man. As you can see when he finds out his wife is pregnant and Mama asks him to tell her not to get an abortion, in response to this he says nothing and goes out to drink. When Walter loses the money to his crooked friend he is ready to sell out the family by conceding to the white man, Mr. Linder. In the end Walter does the right thing and gains respect of his family. Ruth is Walters's wife; her dream is to have a house and to get out of the small cramped apartment they currently live in. Beneatha is Walters's sister and her dream is to become a doctor. Mama is Walter and Beneatha's mother and her dream is to have her family happy, and united. Mama has a plant in the play and it represents family. The plant grows and reproduces even with little sun. The plant eventually makes it out of the apartment and into the house where it can grow and flourish, just as the family will. The theme of the importance of dreams is evident in this play as well as the theme of racial discrimination, as evident by Mr. Lindner. He is the white man in
The characters struggle with the circumstances that control their lives. Every member of the family has a different dream. Walter, the son, has a dream to be wealthy and wants to be able to give his family things. He dreams of opening up a liquor store with two of his friends. Walter seems to be the one with the most conflict in this family because he is a man but is not truly a man. As you can see when he finds out his wife is pregnant and Mama asks him to tell her not to get an abortion, in response to this he says nothing and goes out to drink. When Walter loses the money to his crooked friend he is ready to sell out the family by conceding to the white man, Mr. Linder. In the end Walter does the right thing and gains respect of his family. Ruth is Walters's wife; her dream is to have a house and to get out of the small cramped apartment they currently live in. Beneatha is Walters's sister and her dream is to become a doctor. Mama is Walter and Beneatha's mother and her dream is to have her family happy, and united. Mama has a plant in the play and it represents family. The plant grows and reproduces even with little sun. The plant eventually makes it out of the apartment and into the house where it can grow and flourish, just as the family will. The theme of the importance of dreams is evident in this play as well as the theme of racial discrimination, as evident by Mr. Lindner. He is the white man in