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Comparing Willy Loman And Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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Wing Chan ENG 104 American Dream In Arthur Miller's " Death of a Salesman" and Lorraine Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun", both narrators are tell the story of a family in order to pursue success, pursue the "Amercian Dream", finally generated a tragedy. Highlights the contradictions from the process of chasing out in their different dream. Both families are struggling with hard times and the conflict between each member of the families. Miller's story is reflects the reality of American life, the traditional ethics and conflicts of modern society are focus on Willy. From the failed of Willy, his tragedy is mainly due to the error in the value of life and stubborn to pursuit the dream. He and all Americans believe that their …show more content…

Two sons, the eldest son Biff result in a chance to witness his father for infidelity to his mother, life values collapsed, from a high school sports star has become a useless man, 34 years old and still movin; younger son Happy cynicism, indulge in sex. Willy eventually found their son are still care of himself, in order to give his son the capital for a business, he chose to use the death in exchange for insurance approach, calmly toward death. Hansberry's story is about an African American family. Lena is trying to figure out what is the best to do with the insurance money which is coming from her husband's death. Lena want to buy a house to her family and pay the tuition to her daugther because she knows her daugther would like to become a doctor. The rest of money, she will give to her son for fulfill his dream. Lena is the one who is what ultimately

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“Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” This statement is used as an inspirational message , by our coaches, to inspire the football team to work hard and give it our all. Hansberry depicts this idea of working hard in the text A Raisin In The Sun. She creates an idea that, if you don’t work hard you will not achieve great things. A Raisin In The Sun Is written by Lorraine Hansberry and is a historical fiction based on the everyday lives of African Americans, who work hard through the barriers of segregation to achieve their dreams.

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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.

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Lorraine Hansberry had went to the University of Wisconsin in 1948 to study visual arts and went there for two years. After two years later, she had went to New York in 1950 to study writing, according to an article called, “Legendary Loraine”. In 1952, she became an Associate Editor and then a year later, she got married to Robert Nemiroff, a broadway producer. From an article called, “A Brief Biography of The Playwright, Lorraine Hansberry”, it says that she was beginning to write her first play called A Raisin in the Sun in 1956. When her Dad had passed from a brain aneurysm, she was pretty depressed about it, but this also helped her with writing her book.

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In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, symbolism is often utilized to further the more abstract themes of the novel such as love and dreams through concrete ideas. One prevalent example of this throughout the play is Mama’s little plant. The plant represents Mama’s love for her children as she cares for the plant as she would a child. Despite the plant being described as “growing doggedly”, Mama shows extreme devotion to ensuring the plant’s survival.

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I also choose to write about the play A Raisin in the Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry. My reason for choosing the poem as well as the play. While doing research, its noted that Lorraine Hansberry took the title of the story. From a line in Langston Hughes poem “Harlem”. Both readings were written in a time of immense promise and hopefulness.

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Racism and Assimilation in Chicago: Selling Your Soul to the System Author Lorraine Hansberry explores racism and assimilation in her 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun. The play focuses on the Younger family, who are trying to make the most out of bad circumstances. The family gets a life-changing opportunity after their father dies and they recieve $10,000 in life insurance money. Each member of the family has their own idea of how to spend the money, from starting a business to becoming a doctor. However, all their goals seem unattainable due to the extreme African-Americans faced in pre-civil-rights Chicago.

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Through characters, settings, and details, Lorraine Hansberry accurately portrays the 1960s and it's racist and sexist attitudes towards men and women in A Raisin in the Sun. To begin, A Raisin in the Sun focuses on a family that struggles with racial discrimination along with financial instability. With this in mind, the Younger family receives a 10,000 dollar check that causes conflict within the home. During this novel, Hansberry comments on the American dream during the 1950s and 1960s and how race and gender may play a role with decision making().

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Also, in the play Hansberry demonstrates how both Younger children “come of age.” In the play, Walter Lee has a dream that he wants to accomplish. A Walter dream has been often been put off by his poverty.

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The examination into the life and times of playwright Lorraine Hansberry suggests that historical/biographical analysis can be effectively utilized to fully understand her timeless play A Raisin in the Sun. Hansberry preserved the 1950’s time period in her semi-autobiographical play. Although the play does not directly mirror Hansberry’s own life experiences, many of her own are sprinkled throughout the entirety of the play, which creates a compelling, complex narrative. By effectively conveying her experiences, she paints an accurate picture of the troubles of integration of Black and White citizens, greed, assimilation culture, poverty, desperation and most importantly hope. The primary influences for the play were Hansberry’s upbringing,

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Lorraine V. Hansberry Author Lorraine Hansberry, who is considered one of the Great American authors, wrote during the Modernist period. She wrote “A Raisin in the Sun” in 1959. In this work, we can see evidence of the characteristics, themes and style identified with the Modernist movement which was extant in American letters between 1850’s and after WWII. Lorraine Hansberry wrote during this time period of American literature, and such, remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of her time. Lorraine Hansberry was born on May 19, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Does society care about people who gets discriminated or the fact that there are many people in poverty of money problems? Well that's a question to be answered by our societies , that many people who’d wish to live a life without money problems nor living in poverty, or it could just be the fact that they don’t like being discriminated by other people, they would want that question to be answered the most. That’s what “Raisin in the Sun” is all about, a poor family from Chicago South Side during the late 1950’s and they high hopes of living a more happy life than living a more uncomfortable and depressing life. The family is consisting of five people, Walter, Mama, Beneatha, Ruth, and Travis.

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Lena is a caring woman who loves her family. She is understanding of the problems of others, and can look past their mistakes no matter the gravity of what they've done. Even though both of her children are grown adults, she still has the motherly drive to protect them as if they were still young children.

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Lena Younger was a religious mother to her family regardless of the anger that her family has towards one another. Lena faith was soon tested when she gave her son the rest of the insurance money to put towards Beneatha college funds and the rest in his name. Instead of doing exactly what his mother told him Walter put the rest of the insurance money towards his liquor store plan only to receive the news from his friend, that the entire plan was a money scheme and Willy Harris ran off with their money. Heart broken by the hard work her husband put towards his life and her son spent the entire money out of selfishness she still loved her son. Lena was a part of faith which is also symbolized through the plant that she carried for the received little sunlight.

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Everybody faces problems. It is an inevitable part of human existence, as conflicts are always present during people’s lives. The way that they respond to these problems, however, varies from person to person, and eventually shapes who that person becomes. Whether they go against their problems head-on or run from them, all human beings are eventually forced to face the conflicts of their lives. The way one responds to their problems directly changes who one will become in future, whether it be through what happened while they resolved the dilemma or what happened if they avoided facing the complication.

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In Louisa May Alcotts novel “An Old Fashioned Girl” the main character, Polly Milton, finds herself struggling against a man versus society conflict, as she confronts the rich first class society that surrounds her. The fourteen year old country girl who ventures into the city to visit her good friend, is constantly being told she is old fashioned, poor, and too simple for the city. The basis of the conflict is that all the people Polly encounters during her time in the city, expect her to look and behave like the rest. When Polly cannot do this, people begin to tease and mock her all because she has no wealth.

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