A Struggle to Survive in the Play A Raisin in the Sun
A Struggle to Survive in the Play "A Raisin in the Sun"
The play A Raisin in the Sun was generating from a poem. This poem is talking about the everyday struggles of African Americans and making it in the real world. Also about dreams and how they can easily turn into nightmares. But no matter what the outcome of the dream is, it is reality.
The poem is like a vision of a big question, asking, what happens to a dream that is deferred? In the end it kind of gives the reader a vague answer. Which gives the reader a sense of optimism. Hansberry was both a realist and optimist, viewing the world with what she described as “sighted eyes and feeling heart” (Wilkerson 12). This aspect in the poem gives the reader a sense of truth and it really sets the stage for the reader about the play they are about to read. She believed “the human race does command its own destiny and that destiny can eventually embrace the stars” (Wilkerson 12)
For the author, Lorraine Hansberry, this play helped her become one of the many great African American authors today. Her accomplishment on this play at age twenty-nine was stupendous. In 1959, Hansberry was the youngest American, the fifth woman, and the first black playwright to win the Best Play of the Year Award of the New York Drama Critics. She was able to let us see through her eyes of how a black family lived and how much of a struggle it was to be a minority in the forties. This story had so much truth to it of black peoples’ lives at that particular decade and she might have been trying to send a message to everyone what she, and her fellow African American brothers and sisters were going through.
On January 12, 1965, cancer claimed the life of Lorraine Hansberry. She was only thirty-four and died at a pretty young age. She died before her time but her legacy still lives on through out the country. Her mission in live was simple it was to give people a sense of hope and I think she was able to capture that in her play. Hansberry also wrote another play, which was called Les Blancs. An African-American critic Clayton Riley addressed some of these divisions in his New York Times review. Les Blancs,...