Comparison Of Harlem And Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

The poem, in this case, is Harlem (What happened to a dream deferred?) by Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry’s the short story a Raisin in the Sun. In his poem, Lang begins with a rhetoric question wondering what happens to a dream that is deferred (Poetry Foundation n.p.). Relatively, he continues using the same questions to ponder whether the same dreams dry up just like it happens to the raisins when exposed to the sun. On the other hand, the short story Raisins in the Sun features the lives of a family of the African-Americans struggling against all the odds to meet the standards of the basic life. The discussion shall involve narrowing down to the discussed literature to determine their connections in the form of the themes explored,

First thing first, in the poem Hughes, when unraveling the deferred dream, he wonders whether the dream dries up like a raisin exposed to the sun (Poetry Foundation n.p.). Similarly, and as Gale (n.p.) unveils, Lorraine Hansberry’s play had its title named a Raisin in the Sun. It is worth pointing out that is similar to the words that Hughes uses in his poem. In fact, the Plays and Playwrights (1540) highlights that this particular play was the first that Lorraine completed after starting her full-time writings of plays having being married by Robert Nemiroff, a playwright, in 1953. Similarly, the use of the term deferred dreams in the poem by Hughes (Poetry Foundation n.p.) seemed to resonate with the conditions of the family in the play as depicted in the play by Lorraine. When expressing dreams as being differed, it has more of a meaning of a dream where there is a postponement of its achievement to a later period. In fact, the Plays and Playwrights (1542) depicts Ruth as having a sense of disappointment in her face, and the reason was that “life has been a little that she expected (Plays and Playwrights 1542). It, therefore, means that she had no option other than pushing her dreams up to the period where life would be tolerant enough to enable the achievement of the set