Jeannette’s family never had enough money to buy themselves a decent house, so they lived out of rugged shacks, old abandoned buildings, and even out in the desert without any form of shelter. The author would describe each new house that her family moved into in such a way that it would persuade the reader to have such strong feelings of hatred towards Jeannette’s mother and father. Neither Mr. Walls, nor Mrs. Walls could keep a job for any decent amount of time, so after living in a house for a little, the family would get behind on the payments and have to pack their things and move on to a new place. The most memorable example of these terrible houses is the house that the family bought in Welch West Virginia. On page 153, “We called the kitchen the loose-juice room, because on the rare occasion that we had paid the electricity bill and had power, we’d get a wicked electric shock if we touched any damp or metallic surface in the room.”
In the book, "A Raisin in the Sun"- which takes place in the 1950's, it talks about how A character in the book, Mama- buys a house for her family in A "white neighborhood". This is a problem because, in this time period, black neighborhoods & white neighborhoods were segregated. This text was also adapted into a movie. When directors adapt text texts to film, they might want to change the stage directions- which then, might change the meaning.
Summary Chapter one The Chapter starts with the description of the Younger’s Apartment in Chicago, it is described as a very small, cramped apartment, furnished with worn down furniture and very expensive for the small room. There are three rooms, two Bedrooms and one living room/kitchen, the mother of the family, Mama or Lena, sleeps in one of the rooms with her twenty year old daughter Beneatha, her other son Walter sleeps in one room with his wife Ruth, and their son Travis sleeps in the living room. The bathroom is not in the apartment, but on the hall and is shared with another apartment.
Contrasting All My Sons to A Raisin in the Sun Not everything is seen by people the same. Everyone has their own take on things. All My Sons shows Chris’s thinking when it comes to money, and then there's Walter from a raisin in the sun and how he feels about money. Plus the contrasting of different American dreams between the 2 plays.
Abraham Lincoln’s Establishment of Impartiality During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln served his presidency to the United States (U.S.) during one of the most decisive and divisive time periods in the nation’s history. Lincoln began his presidency shortly after the official formation of the Confederacy in the Southern states of the U.S. President Lincoln delivered his first Inaugural Address in 1861 to an already divided nation with the knowledge that the potential for a civil war was growing and that conflict was imminent. Taking the reins of a nation that was seemingly at irreconcilable odds, Lincoln served his first four-year term as president from 1861-1865; a time period that saw the violence of the American Civil War engulf and divide an entire nation. Near the end of the Civil War in 1865, Lincoln was elected for a second presidential term. It was during Lincoln’s second Inaugural Address in March of 1865 that he was tasked with again speaking before a divided
The play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry debuted on Broadway in 1959, and the movie was made in 2008. “A Raisin in the Sun” is about the Younger family, the fifth generation of lower-class African-Americans living in Chicago’s Southside. They are faced with problems such as racial discrimination, poverty, and conflicting dreams. As the family decides on how to spend the insurance check of $10,000 from Walter’s father’s death, these problems cause many conflicts to rise. Reading the 1959 play and the 2008 movie, I have realized certain similarities and differences in how the story plays out.
The background and surroundings can have a dramatic effect on the psychological and physical state of a person, as well as their view on many various topics. Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun expresses this through characters such as Ruth and other members of the Younger family. Their experiences and surroundings shape how they view the world, as their psychological state changes rapidly. The growing views and standpoints on the outside world shape the characters of the book and end up leading to success. Their outlook on how to solve the problems changed, ending up in new characters in terms of traits and psychological buildup.
We can interpret undoubtedly, that Jeanette has a positive attitude. Jeanette explains that the houses were “shabbier” than the ones in the valley, she isn’t direct in her meaning but what exbiting is a responds to her life then. She is using her words to display her connection with herself, and what she feels. This strategy has stimulated not only extreme detail, but also amplify the writer’s
Imagine being judged for the choices you make. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and The Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry the characters in these three novels search for independence under unfortunate circumstances. This results in difficult decision making situations that they are later judged for. However, Hester confronts her sin, the Younger family moves into a white neighborhood house and the Wall’s kids move away from their abusive parents.
According to an article by Stephen Iervolino, a survey showed that out of 2,000 American book readers, 67% say that they prefer reading a book to watching the movie version of it. But, half mentioned that they would rather watch a movie than read that movie’s book. But why would more people rather read a book than watch a movie about the same story? What could the difference between reading a book and viewing it be? Well, in both the book and play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, one can experience the story of Walter, Ruth, Beneatha, Mama, and Travis as they struggle through financial and familial problems together.
The quote “In our stuck-in-the-sixties kitchen, complete with vomit green walls, Ty grimaced at one of Dad’s lame jokes.”(135) unfolds the look of the setting in such a way that provides the reader with the old-fashioned tone and is worded in such a way that it almost sounds like a real location. Whenever a new setting is introduced in this novel, it is always represented in a very descriptive and lifelike
There is no way to know if a decision that was made is the right or the wrong decision. Making decisions is apparent in "A Raisin in the Sun", among all characters. Some decisions made by the characters work out in the end and other decisions, causes anger towards the family members. Throughout the play, Mama makes several life-changing decisions. Some of the decisions are very controversial to the readers.
A Raisin in the sun by Lorraine Hansberry. The movie A raisin in the sun was made in 1961. A Raisin is the sun is about an African american family who just got money from mama husband who passed away and they don’t know what they want to do with it. There are many comparisons in A Raisin In The Sun but the ones I’m going to tell you are the ones that pop out more.
Lena and Linda: So Different and Yet the Same “Death of a Salesman” and “A Raisin in the Sun”, two Tony Award winning plays; both are revered as classics. Both have been revived, reprinted, and filmed multiple times. however, that is not all they have in common; both plays share strikingly similar matriarchs. In 1949 Arthur Miller premiered his play “Death of a Salesman”; in this he introduces us to Linda Loman.
Hardships of the Youngers In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, the characters of Mama, Walter ,and Beneatha are faced with hardships associated with their dreams being destroyed by discriminatory housing,racial inequality and lack of support from her family towards her education. In the play all the characters have some kind of dream. Mama wants to get a house for the family, Walter wants to have money to provide for his family and plans to do that with a liquor store, and Beneatha wants to become a doctor. Beneatha is going to school and at the same time she’s trying to discover herself,but her family is not supportive of this.
