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One has to piece together the references, allusions and collage-like nature of the material and situate the works historically and critically so that their difficulty is translated into effective meaning and feeling. This story was one of the most fascinating plays I have ever read. In particular, whenever I watch old re-runs of "Good Times" I always think of Walter, and and the Younger Family, living happily, albeit not necessarily comfortably in the "ghetto."I definitely recommend watching these old re-runs to get a feel for the play.
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It shows basically decent people struggling against life's difficulties. The check arrives and the drama plays out against a backdrop of racial prejudice.This play was the first drama featuring an African-American theme to play on Broadway. They leave in a run-down apartment and even have to share the bathroom with other tenants. It is particularly relevant now, given the recent election of an African-American (not co-incidentally from Chicago) as president of the United States. Everyone in the family has a dream for a better life. Lorraine Hansberry's dramatic play, A Raisin in the Sun, is about the life of an African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago in the years following the Second World War.
Walter Lee works as a chauffer, and Ruth and even Mama work to bring in enough money. It has been highly acclaimed ever since. Lena Younger (Mama) is the head of the family that includes her married son Walter Lee, his wife, Ruth, their young son, Travis and Walter's younger sister, Beneatha, who is a college student. Walter Lee wants to buy a liquor store, Mama wants to have a house with a garden, Beneatha wants to become a doctor and Ruth just wants everyone to be happy and content. For that reason I give it five stars. The family is struggling to support itself.
Lena's husband has died and she is about to get an insurance check for $10,000, a lot of money for those times.
It's amazing how you don't recognize the littlest things but they make such a big difference. I loved this book. I saw the movie, but the book goes into much more detail.
Lorraine Hansberry's famous play offers raw and realistic drama. Lena purchases a house in a better area, at which point the all-white neighborhood tries to pay off the Youngers to keep them from moving in. The family includes Walter and Ruth Younger, his widowed mother Lena, son Travis, and sister Beneatha. Beneatha is an ambitious college student newly attracted to the back-to-Africa philosophy of her Nigerian friend, while Lena and Ruth dream of escaping their slum and buying a house in a better area.
Hansberry (1930-1965) at just 34. We see the family separate with the expected insurance settlement, only to reunite when faced with rejection. This play was first performed in 1959, as Chicago's South Side was fast turning from white to black - integration being defined by neighborhood activist Saul Alinsky as that brief period of time between when the first black family moves in and the last white family leaves. Still, her raw, realistic drama provides a powerful testament. Sadly, several once-stable neighborhoods became crime-ridden slums, and cancer took Ms. The story examines conflicts and dreams within an African American family from Chicago's South Side in the 1950's, plus the effects of racism.
This drama presents potent trends like resistance to integration, pan-Africanism, and militancy, but never becomes soapy or preachy. Walter is a hard-working chauffeur who dreams of buying a liqour store before he loses his money to a con artist. That latter dream becomes reality via the life insurance from Lena's late husband.
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