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Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin In The Sun

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Lorraine Hansberry was a great writer of the 20th century that was friends with a great poet by the name of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes wrote a poem called Dream Deferred which asked the question of what happens when a person's dream is deferred. Lorraine Hansberry wrote Raisin in the Sun to answer this question. In Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry uses the characters of Big Mama, Walter and Beneatha to show all of the negative effects that come from deferring your dream. First, Lorraine Hansberry uses Big Mama to show the negative side effects of having a dream deferred. “Mama enters from her bedroom. She is lost, vague, trying to catch hold, to make some sense of her former command of the world,but it eludes her. A sense of waste
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