Raisin In The Sun Synthesis

The movie, A Raisin in the Sun (1961), written by Lorraine Hansberry and directed by Daniel Petrie, portrays a heartwarming story about a poor family overcoming differences and hardships in order to move on and create a better life for themselves. This story utilizes appeals in order to connect and engage the audience in the themes and messages. The biggest themes are the importance of family and to love them through the thick and thin. The lighting and background music was also something that heavily contributed to creating the mood for each scene. Although there are many ways to interpret the appeals, theme, and even the moods set by the lighting and music, I believe the way I interpreted it to be more prevalent, Hansberry focuses on using Pathos and Logos to appeal to the audience in A Raisin in the Sun. Pathos is the main appeal, as the movie is dramatized to evoke feeling from the audience. The movie shows a lot of the domestic lifestyle of the Younger family and how they struggle financially along with struggling with each other. People can often relate to this premise

The topic of family comes up more than anything else in the story. Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil) is a character that constantly tries to enforce these values into the rest of the household while keeping them from breaking apart. For example, she went on to buy a new house because she believed it would benefit her family the most and lead them into a better, happier future. She said, “I seen my family falling apart today. Falling to pieces in front of my eyes. We couldn't go on like we was today. We was going backwards instead of forwards” (Hansberry). As it turns out, by buying a house she succeeded in keeping her family intact in the end. The message of the importance of family successfully reaches the audience, especially through Lena’s constant efforts to keep her family a