Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun
The Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry was the very first black female writer to receive the Circle Award for best play in 1959, while also being the youngest American player playwright to usher a new era of Theatre in the United States. Hansberry was born and raised in the state of Chicago where she faced countless amounts of racial discrimination. In which she later managed to overcome all odds and used it as fuel to her plays. (CBB) Hansberry faced more downs than ups with having to deal with racial discrimination, segregation and having first hand experiences on what it was like to be black. During the racial tensions at that period of time Hansberry made the most of it by using it as encouragement while her love for theater …show more content…
It was her first ever completed work. Hansberry’s writings had a unique taste to it, as she always channeled her anger to a lot of her writings. While Hansberry and her husband Nemiroff were entertaining their friends, Burt D’Lugoff and Philip Rose found the play intriguing and made an offer to produce the play on Broadway. The play of A Raisin in the Sun was like no other at that period time, the story behind it was about a black family living in the slums of Chicago. They were left to figure out how to spend the ten thousand dollars, as each family member were having difficulties on what to do with the money received. The characters in the play were, Walter Lee who works as a chauffeur, his wife Ruth who occasionally works as a maid, and their ten-year-old son Travis. During the well fought out debate on what to do with the money, it was later taken away from them, which left them with nothing, which only made matters worse. The whole family members went through hardships and struggles, yet they still realized that they would still have to struggle even if the money was still at their reach. However they still managed to love each other despite their
Lorraine Hansberry was the very first black female writer to receive the Circle Award for best play in 1959, while also being the youngest American player playwright to usher a new era of Theatre in the United States. Hansberry was born and raised in the state of Chicago where she faced countless amounts of racial discrimination. In which she later managed to overcome all odds and used it as fuel to her plays. (CBB) Hansberry faced more downs than ups with having to deal with racial discrimination, segregation and having first hand experiences on what it was like to be black. During the racial tensions at that period of time Hansberry made the most of it by using it as encouragement while her love for theater …show more content…
It was her first ever completed work. Hansberry’s writings had a unique taste to it, as she always channeled her anger to a lot of her writings. While Hansberry and her husband Nemiroff were entertaining their friends, Burt D’Lugoff and Philip Rose found the play intriguing and made an offer to produce the play on Broadway. The play of A Raisin in the Sun was like no other at that period time, the story behind it was about a black family living in the slums of Chicago. They were left to figure out how to spend the ten thousand dollars, as each family member were having difficulties on what to do with the money received. The characters in the play were, Walter Lee who works as a chauffeur, his wife Ruth who occasionally works as a maid, and their ten-year-old son Travis. During the well fought out debate on what to do with the money, it was later taken away from them, which left them with nothing, which only made matters worse. The whole family members went through hardships and struggles, yet they still realized that they would still have to struggle even if the money was still at their reach. However they still managed to love each other despite their